Engineering student and professor win best paper honours

Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Systems Design Engineering doctoral student Devinder Kumar and professor Alexander Wong won the Best Paper Award at the 31st Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Transparent and interpretable Machine Learning in Safety Critical Environments Workshop held at the end of 2017.

The award was for their paper on explainable and interpretable AI for clinical decision support entitled CLEAR-DR: Interpretable Computer Aided Diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy.   

NIPS is the largest machine learning, computational neuroscience, and artificial intelligence conference in the world held every December. Last year's conference in Long Beach, California attracted a record-breaking 8000 attendees.