Max Planck Lecture Biography
23 June 2020 at 17:30 | Virtual Event

Machine Learning for Covid-19 Risk Awareness from Contact Tracing

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The Covid-19 pandemic has spread rapidly worldwide, overwhelming manual contact tracing in many countries, resulting in widespread lockdowns for emergency containment. Large-scale digital contact tracing (DCT) has emerged as a potential solution to resume economic and social activity without triggering a second outbreak. Various DCT methods have been proposed, each making trade-offs between privacy, mobility restriction, and public health.

Speaker Biography

Yoshua Bengio (Université de Montréal)