Martin Vallières, PhD

Martin Vallières is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sherbrooke (April 2020). He obtained a PhD in Medical Physics from McGill University in 2017 and completed postdoctoral training in France and the United States in 2018 and 2019. Martin Vallières’ primary research focus is on developing clinically actionable models to better personalize cancer treatments and care (“precision oncology”). He is an expert in radiomics (high-throughput quantitative analysis of medical images) and machine learning in oncology. Throughout his career, he has developed numerous predictive models for various types of cancer. A Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence, Martin Vallières is currently dedicating a significant portion of his work to developing a solution for the integrative modeling of data in oncology. He leads the development of MEDomicsLab, an open-source, end-to-end computing platform for precision oncology. This platform will integrate heterogeneous data from hospitals using deep learning and machine learning methods based on graph theory. By contributing to the improvement of predictive models in oncology, MEDomicsLab will become a key artificial intelligence tool in medicine. Martin Vallières is also a member of the Mila artificial intelligence research institute.