Regina Barzilay is a School of Engineering Distinguished Professor of AI & Health in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). Since 2018, she has been the AI Faculty Lead at MIT Jameel Clinic and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). She develops machine learning methods for drug discovery and clinical AI. She also works in natural language processing.

Barzilay received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University, and spent a year as a postdoc at Cornell University. Her research has been recognized with the MacArthur Fellowship, an NSF Career Award, and the AAAI Squirrel AI Award for Artificial Intelligence for the Benefit of Humanity. Regina is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Medicine.