Rachel Thomas

@math_rachel
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MSc Immunology student; cofounder fast.ai // past: math PhD, director USF Center for Applied Data Ethics, professor at QUT, data scientist
bloghttps://rachel.fast.ai/
about mehttps://rachel.fast.ai/about.html

Hype around AI in medicine often ignores two key risks:
- patterns of automation contribute to centralization of power
- medical knowledge is limited by the systemic refusal to trust patient expertise

https://rachel.fast.ai/posts/2024-02-20-ai-medicine/

Rachel Thomas, PhD - “AI will cure cancer” misunderstands both AI and medicine

an AI researcher going back to school for immunology

Even though my main interests are immunology & AI, I was pleasantly surprised to learn several fascinating facts about insects in my microbiology classes last semester! I wrote a post:

https://rachel.fast.ai/posts/2024-01-09-insects/

Rachel Thomas, PhD - 4 Things I Learned About Bugs

an AI researcher going back to school for immunology

It was a nice walk down memory lane going through the fastai blog archives choosing posts to port over-- lots of stuff I had forgotten about. https://www.fast.ai/#listing-listing-page=5
fast.ai - fast.ai—Making neural nets uncool again

Going forward, I will be blogging at https://rachel.fast.ai/ I still believe deeply in the mission of fastai, but I'm currently focused on studying immunology.

I have ported some of my old posts from both fastai & medium over to the new site.

Rachel Thomas, PhD - science, data ethics, education

a blog about science, data, ethics, & education

After over a decade working as a data scientist and AI researcher, I have gone back to school for a Masters in Immunology. When I become fascinated by a topic, I want to learn as much as I can.

My ultimate goal is to apply my machine learning & data ethics skills to immunology, but I want to make sure I fully understand the underlying domain & relevant context first. With ML, it’s important to not just be a hammer searching for a nail.

https://rachel.fast.ai/posts/2023-02-07-school-immunology/

Rachel Thomas, PhD - I was an AI researcher. Now, I am an immunology student.

Last year, I became captivated by a new topic in a way that I hadn’t felt since I first discovered machine learning