Michal is leading a worldwide team of researchers, expert in AI applied to health data and a local team who focuses on deep learning applied to medical imaging, machine learning and causal inference technologies applied to patient’s data.  She joined IBM Research in 2005 and has since led various projects in the area of machine learning and healthcare; Therese are multidisciplinary projects where physicians, data scientists, AI experts and experts from Pharmaceutical companies join forces to analyze post launch patient’s data. Aside from teaching in various academic forums including courses at Tel-Aviv University and the Hebrew University, Michal has published more than 40 peer-reviewed papers, serves as a Senior Program Committee member and reviewer at leading machine learning, health informatics, and bioinformatics conferences and journals. Nowadays she is also a visiting professor at the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University. Michal holds a PhD in computational physics and completed her postdoctoral studies at UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, and the Hebrew University in the area of Machine Learning. She serves at various boards such as the committees such as the Israeli national digital health committee and the Impact Advisory Committee of the 8400 health network.