Regina Barzilay is a distinguished professor for AI and Health at MIT (USA). She is also an AI faculty lead for Jameel Clinic, an MIT center for Machine Learning in Health. In 2020 she became the first winner of the Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity, a new 1 million dollar prize recognizing outstanding research in AI, presented by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).