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The Human Side of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

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The Human Side of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
L’aspect humain de l’intelligence artificielle dans les soins de santé


Join us for a panel discussion exploring the powerful intersection of artificial intelligence and health, bringing together leading experts from Belgium, France, and Québec. Moderated by Pascal Van Hentenryck, the conversation will dive into the evolution of AI through the lens of neurology, unpack how AI models are built for healthcare applications, and spark thoughtful reflection on AI, intelligence, and consciousness. The session will conclude with an interactive Q&A, inviting the audience to challenge ideas, ask bold questions, and join the debate shaping the future of health innovation.
PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT WILL BE IN FRENCH

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  • Professor Schaus obtained his Master in Engineering (Computer Science) from UCLouvain in 2005. He then obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLouvain in 2009 under the supervision of Yves Deville, with a dissertation focused on balancing and fairness global constraints in Constraint Programming, as well as on Bin Packing. During his doctoral work, he also had the opportunity to collaborate with Jean-Charles Régin and his colleague Pierre Dupont. After completing his Ph.D., he spent five months at Brown University (US), working with Pascal Van Hentenryck on the CP solver of Comet, which Pascal developed jointly with Laurent Michel. He subsequently joined Dynadec, the startup created by Pascal Van Hentenryck to commercialize Comet, where he worked for two years. He then spent two years at the UCLouvain spin-off N‑SIDE, where he initiated the development of the OscaR solver, before returning to UCLouvain as faculty in 2012. He continued leading the development of the CP solver of OscaR until its retirement, after which it was succeeded by MiniCP and MaxiCP, which he actively maintains.

    In recent years, his research has increasingly focused on decision‑diagram‑based optimization, a topic pioneered by Willem‑Jan van Hoeve and John Hooker’s team. In collaboration with Cetic, he is now developing DDOLib, a solver built around these techniques. He also had a very fruitful collaboration with his former colleague Siegfried Nijssen in recent years on algorithms for learning exact or less‑greedy decision trees, during which they extended and exploited an idea originally developed by Nijssen and Lisa Fromont (the DL8 algorithm) involving dynamic programming.

    Over the years, he has also worked on numerous industrial optimization and machine‑learning applications (scheduling, routing, configuration, etc.) across a variety of projects.
    He has supervised 15 Ph.D. thesis successfully defended. Two former Ph.D. students (Hélène Verhaeghe and Quentin Cappart) are now his colleagues as professors at UCLouvain. He also maintains active research collaborations across the African continent, including with Ratheil Houndji (former Ph.D. student, now professor at UAC, Benin) and Roger Kameugne (professor at Maroua, Cameroon).

 

  • Assistant Professor of Neurology and Associate Division Director of Hospital Neurology, at Emory University School of Medicine.
    Originally from France, Julien completed his neurology residency at SUNY Downstate and a neuroimmunology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital–Harvard University. He currently practices as a Neurohospitalist at Emory and leads the Autoimmune Encephalitis Clinic, held monthly.

 

  • Rafick-Pierre Sékaly, PhD, is a professor and serves as vice-chair of translational medicine in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Sékaly is a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar. He is a member of the Cancer Immunology Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute.

    Dr Sékaly obtained his PhD in Biochemistry from the Université de Lausanne in Switzerland where he also completed a postdoctoral fellowship on immunogenetics and molecular biology.

    Research
    For over two decades, Dr. Sékaly's group has been focused on developing a better understanding of the human immune response to vaccines and to chronic viral infections with a specific focus on HIV infection. They have implemented the use of system biology approaches to monitor the diversity of memory T cell and to identify the mechanisms underlying the diversity of memory T cell subsets. They have pioneered the application of systems biology approaches to the understanding of mechanisms of action of the licensed vaccines and adjuvants. They have also shown for the first time the diversity of the mechanism that lead to the establishment and persistence of HIV in different memory T cell subsets.

    Publications
    Dr. Sékaly has published more than 340 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals and holds 25 patents in adjuvants, PD-1 and vaccine vectors.
    Dr. Sékaly is an inductee of the MilliPub Club, which recognizes current Emory faculty who have published one or more individual papers throughout their careers that have garnered more than 1,000 citations.

 

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