Talks

Invited talks, seminars and panels by Sonali Parbhoo.

  • Dharma, Demonstration and the Alignment of Machines · Slides
    at Hinduism and AI: A Roundtable, University of Cambridge, Sep 2026

  • Causal Discovery in the Age of Weak Supervision: From Preference Data to Language Model Oracles · Slides
    at MCML workshop on causal machine learning, Munich, Aug 2026

  • Interpretability in the Wild: When Explainability Meets Causality and Clinical Reality
    at University of Cambridge, Mar 2026

  • From Research to Certification with Data-Driven Medical Decision Support Systems
    at Dagstuhl Seminar, 2026

  • Fix-A-Shortcut: Gradient-Based Shortcut Mitigation for Causal Representation Learning in Healthcare · Slides
    at Royal Statistical Society, Emerging Applications invited talk, Dec 2025

  • The Pitfalls of Shortcuts in Multimodal Representation Learning for Healthcare
    at NeurIPS 2025 workshop on ML for Multimodal Representation Learning in Healthcare, Dec 2025

  • Mind Your Evaluation: On the Challenges with Off-Policy Evaluation for Real World Decision-Making · Slides
    at University of Oxford, 2025
    at EPFL, 2025
    at RLC I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better Workshop, 2024
    at CIFAR Workshop on World Models: Causality, Neuroscience and AI Safety, Max Planck Institute, Tübingen, 2024
    at Novel Trends in Data Science Workshop, ETH Zurich, 2023
    at Open Data Science Conference, London, 2023

  • Insights from the Inverse: Leveraging Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Reconstructing LLM Training Goals
    at Google DeepMind, 2025

  • On the Promises of Data-Driven Approaches for Early Glaucoma Detection
    at Aravind Eye Institute, Madurai, 2024

  • Taking the Genie Out Of The Bottle(neck): Concept-Based Insights for AI Oversight · Slides
    at KDD Workshop on Interpretability, 2024

  • Interpretable Reinforcement Learning for Actionable Decision-Making in Healthcare
    at RLC InterpPol Workshop, 2024

  • Lessons from the Past for Smarter Decisions and Future Wins · Slides
    at Microsoft Research Cambridge, 2024

  • Insights from the Inverse: Leveraging Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Actionable Decision-Making in Healthcare · Slides
    at Apple Healthcare Workshop, Mountain View, 2024

  • Larger Models are Not Always Better: Towards Creating ML People Can Use in Practice
    at ISN Tea, Imperial College London, 2024

  • When Information Is Not Enough: Towards Uncertainty-Aware Real Time Decisions for Health
    at Critical Care Summit and Datathon, Tarragona, 2022

  • Help, I Need Somebody! Deferring to Humans for Sequential Decision-Making in Uncertainty · Slides
    at Boston Consulting Group, 2022

  • On Addressing Bias and Uncertainty in Machine Learning for Equity in Healthcare
    at DSxHE, University College London, 2022

  • Machine Learning Methods for Sepsis Management in the ICU
    at IMSE, Imperial College London, 2022

  • Towards Risk-Aware Decision-Making and Policy Evaluation for Actionable Healthcare
    at Oxford Machine Learning Summer School, 2022

  • Towards Responsible and Effective AI for Health
    at Imperial College London, 2022

  • Building Evidence-Based Models for Targeted Healthcare
    at Purdue University, 2022
    at EECS, Imperial College London, 2021
    at University of Edinburgh, 2021

  • Why Uncertainty Matters: Implications for Medical Evaluation and Beyond
    at MIT, 2022

  • Counterfactual Representation Learning for Multiple Concurrent Therapies
    at IMES and HMS, MIT, 2021

  • Understanding Uncertainty in Decision-Making with Visualisations
    at CSAIL, MIT, 2021

  • The Role of Counterfactuals in High-Stake Decision-Making
    at Stanford University, 2021

  • Robust Machine Learning Methods for Targeted Healthcare
    at Rising Stars in AI for Social Good, Harvard CRCS, 2021

  • The Need For Interpretable and Fair Algorithms in Health Policy
    at Womxn@Broad Symposium, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, 2021

  • The Role of Ethics in Computer Science
    at ABCD Committee, Harvard University, 2021

  • Treatment-Effect Estimation from Well-Curated to Less-Resourced Populations with HIV
    at Michigan AI & Health Symposium, University of Michigan, 2020

  • Information Bottleneck Methods for Estimating Treatment Effects
    at Deep Learning IndabaX, South Africa, 2020

  • Kernel Methods for HIV Therapy Selection
    at Harvard University, 2016

  • Bayesian Neighbourhood Estimation
    at University of the Witwatersrand, 2016