Darlene Vian Fund for Student Support Newsletter
PhD
2026
- Josiah Aklilu, PhD
Google DeepMind Research Engineer
- Kristy Carpenter, PhD
- Ben Ehlert, PhD
Machine Learning Engineer at Lore Health
2025
- Matthew Aguirre, PhD
- Erin Craig, PhD
Tenure track Assistant Professor, Biostatistics, University of Michigan - Samson Mataraso, PhD
- Kevin Wu, PhD
- Christine Yeh, PhD
MSTP (MD/PhD Candidate), Stanford University - Ashley Lewis, PhD
Postdoc Researcher at Stanford school of medicine - Eric Sun, PhD
Incoming Assistant Professor at MIT - Kevin Wu, PhD
Founding Researcher at GXL
2024
- Daisy Ding, PhD
Researcher in AI + Biomedicine at Stanford - Alexander Derry, PhD
Research Scientist, EvolutionaryScale - Tiffany Eulalio, PhD
Postdoc at St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital - Scott Fleming, PhD
Machine Learning Scientist at SmarterDx - Mars Huang, PhD
Research Scientist, Apple - Yusuf Roohani, PhD
Group Lead, Machine Learning at ARC Institute
2023
- Corbin Conor, PhD
Lead Machine Learning Scientist, SmarterDx - Henry Cousins, PhD
Medical Student, Stanford - Laurynas Kalesinskas, PhD
Data Scientist at SmarterDx
Thesis: Methods for leveraging heterogeneity in expression and single-cell epigenetic data for systems immunology - Tim Keyes, PhD,
Data Scientist (AI/ML) at Stanford Healthcare - David Kuo, PhD
Developmental Clinical Science at Genentech - Kelley Paskov, PhD
Computational Biologist
Thesis: Using family sequencing data to understand sequencing errors, meiotic crossovers, and disease risk - Daniel Nicolas Sosa, PhD
Co-Founder at Parsnip
Thesis: Contexts and contradictions: reasoning with science for literature-based drug repurposing
2022
- Rocky Aiken, PhD
Statistician, Mathematica - Margaret Mary Antonio, PhD
- Elizabeth Chin, PhD
- Ben Huynh, PhD
Epidemiologist, Stanford University - Ioannis Kipouros, PhD
Postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley in Prof. Michelle Chang’s group - Ben Marafino, PhD
Research scientist, Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente; Assistant Professor of Health Systems Science, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine
2021
- Gustavo Chavez, PhD
Anesthesia Residency - Nicole Ferraro, PhD
Scientific Program Manager, Center for Biosignal Research, UCSF - Emily Flynn, PhD
Senior Biological Data Scientist, UCSF - Michael Gloudemans, PhD
Bioinformatics Scientist, Guardant Health - Margaret Guo, PhD
Internal Medicine Resident, Stanford University School of Medicine - Boyce Hunter, PhD
Bioinformatics Scientist, Nautilus Biotechnology - Daniel Kim, PhD
Internal Medicine Resident, Stanford Health Care - Adam Lavertu, PhD
Bioinformatics Software Engineer, MyOme - Greg McInnes, PhD
Senior Scientist, Empirico - Stephen Pfohl, PhD
Research Scientist, Google - Yosuke Tanigawa, PhD
Postdoctoral associate, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT - Jessica Torres, PhD
Senior Machine Learning Scientist, iRhythm Technologies, Inc. - Guhan Venketeraman, PhD
Machine Learning Researcher II, Seer - Alice Yu, PhD
Computational Scientist, Stealth Startup - Yuhao Zhang, PhD
Founding scientist, Samaya AI
2020
- Albee Ling, PhD
Research Engineer, Med/Quantitative Sciences Unit, Stanford University - Anna Shcherbina, PhD
Machine Learning Engineer, Insitro, Inc. - Craig Smail, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pediatric Genomic Medicine Center, Children’s Mercy Hospital - Darvin Yi, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)
2019
- Vibhu Agarwal, PhD
Senior Director, Data Science, Medidata Solutions, Acorn AI - Calderon Diego, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Washington - Lichy Han, PhD
Resident Physician, Stanford Health Care - Maulik Kamdar, PhD
Director of Clinical Informatics, Optum Health - Michelle Wu, PhD
Computational Biologist, Verily Life Sciences
2018
- Peyton Greenside, PhD
Postdoc Research Fellow, Schmidt Science Fellows - Winston Haynes, PhD
Lead Data Scientist, SerImmune Inc - Emily Mallory, PhD
Research Scientist, Invitae - Sarah Poole, PhD
Data Scientist for Verily Life Sciences - Alejandro Schuler, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics; UC Berkeley - Natalie Telis, PhD
Senior Research Scientist, Helix
2017
- Rachel Goldfeder, PhD
Associate Director, Merck - Rebecca Sawyer Lee, PhD
Senior Technical Professional, KBR, Inc - David Moskowitz, PhD
Principal at 8VC - Erika Strandberg, PhD
Senior Program Manager, Microsoft - Emily Tsang, PhD
Manager, Bioinformatics, Guardant Health
2016
- Sara Hillenmeyer, PhD
Director of Data Science at Payscale - Haruka Itakura, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Oncology), Stanford School of Medicine - Bethany Percha, PhD
Assistant Professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine; CTO Precision Health Enterprise, Mount Sinai Health System - Vanessa Sochat, PhD
Computer Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Linda Szabo, PhD
Associate Director of Genomics, Mantra Bio - Kun-Hsing Yu, PhD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
2015
- Tomer Altman, PhD
Current: Senior Bioinformaticist Consultant, Altman Analytics LLC
Thesis: Data Mining and Modeling of the Human Microbiome - Pablo Cordero, PhD
Current: Data Science, Stripe
Thesis: Factorization methods for inferring structure in ensemble average measurements of RNA molecules and networks - Francisco Gimenez, PhD
Current: Partner at 8VC
Thesis: Fast adaptive structured reporting for decision support in radiology - Mike Januszyk, MD (Univ of Chicago), PhD
Current: N/A
Thesis: An integrated framework to identify and isolate novel, functionally distinct tissue subpopulations using high-resolution single cell analysis - Ken Jung, PhD
Machine LearningEngineer, Apple
Thesis: Learning from electronic health records - Tiffany Ting Liu, PhD
Current: N/A
Thesis: Integrated Analysis Using Molecular-scale Data to Identify Prognostic Subgroups in Glioblastoma - Jonathan Mortensen, PhD
Current: Founder, CTO, bit.io
Thesis: Crowdsourcing ontology verification - Diego Munoz, PhD
Current: Data Scientist, Meta
Thesis: Developing subtype-specific stochastic simulation models of breast cancer incidence and mortality - Daniel Newburger, PhD
Current: Software Engineer, Google
Thesis: Analysis of genomic variants for investigating the genetic etiology of disease - Katie Planey, PhD
Current: Co-Founder & CTO, Mantra Bio
Thesis: Unsupervised learning across multiple datasets - David Poznik, PhD
Current: Senior Scientist I, Population Geneticist, 23andMe
Thesis: Learning Human History from Sequenced Y Chromosomes
2014
- Rob Bruggner, PhD
Current: VP of Value Platform, Nuna, Inc.
Thesis: Data-driven identification of stratifying cellular signatures in high-dimensional cytometry data - Guy Haskin Fernald, PhD
Current: Staff Data Scientist, Foresite Capital
Thesis: Connecting chemical features of drugs to molecular, cellular, and organismal phenotypes - Yi Liu, PhD
Current: Software Engineer, Waymo
Thesis: Statistical analyses on high-thoughput sequencing of B cell and T cell receptors - Brian Maples, PhD
Current: Chief Technology Officer, Naring Health
Thesis: A discriminative modeling approach for inferring ancestry and correcting phase in large population genetics data sets
2013
- Andy Beck, MD (Brown), PhD
Current: Co-founder, President and CEO, PathAI
Thesis: Computational pathology for genomic medicine - Konrad Karczewski, PhD
Current: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Thesis: Methods for unraveling the phenotypic consequences of regulatory variation - Amit Kaushal, BS (Stanford); MS (Stanford), MD, PhD
Current: Clinical Assistant Professor; Adjunct Professor, Stanford Bioengineering, Stanford University School of Medicine; Stanford University
Thesis: Development and application of quantitative methods for clinical high-throughput proteomics - Jesse Rodriguez, MS (Stanford), PhD
Current: Software Engineer, Google
Thesis: Accurate methods for ancestry and relatedness inference
2012
- Sarah Aerni, BS (UC San Diego); PhD
Current: Director of Data Science and Engineering, Salesforce
Thesis: Single-cell gene expression analysis in C. elegans - Tiffany Chen, BS (Duke University); MS (Stanford University), PhD
Current: Group Product Manager, Chan Zuckerburg Initiative
Thesis: De novo reconstruction of cell cycle and chemotherapeutic mechanisms in cancer - Erik Corona, BS (UCSD); PhD
Current: Data Science Senior Manager, Cigna
Thesis: Effects of recent evolution on the genetic basis of human disease - Wei-Nchih Lee, BA, MPH (Columbia University), MD (CUNY Mount Sinai); PhD
Current: Medical Informaticist at Evidation Health
Thesis: Evaluating clinical practice variation using a knowledge-based temporal sequence alignment framework - Linda Liu Miller, BS (University of Virginia), PhD
Current: Assistant Vice President of Strategy, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Thesis: Multi-scale data-driven analysis of sex differences in human disease - Sam Pearlman, BS (MIT); MS (Stanford), PhD
Current: Genomics Software Engineer, Myriad Genetics
Thesis: A mechanism for the evolution of protein phosphorylation sites and application towards improving phorylation site prediction - Nick Tatonetti, BS (Arizona State University); PhD
Current: Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University
Thesis: Data-driven detection, prediction, and validation of drug-drug interactions
2011
- David Chen, BS (USC), MS (Johns Hopkins); PhD
Current: Co-founder & CDO, Nuna Inc.
Thesis: Integration of electronic health records and public biological repositories illuminates human pathophysiology and underlying molecular relationships - Joel Dudley, BS (Arizona State University); PhD
Current: Senior Vice President of Research, Tempus Inc.
Thesis: Methods and applications for position-specific evolutionary features in clinical genomics - Alex Morgan, BA (Brandeis); MS (Tufts); MD (Stanford), PhD
Current: Principal, Khosla Ventures
Thesis: Methods of study integration in multiplex molecular medicine - Chirag Patel, BA (UC Berkeley); MS (Stanford), PhD
Current: Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School.
Thesis: Environment-wide associations to disease and disease-related phenotypes - Guanglei Xiong, MS (Tsinghua University); Beng (Tsinghua University); PhD
Current: Senior Manager and Distinguished Scientist of Artificial Intelligence, Accenture
Thesis: Computational methods of modeling vascular geometry and tracking pulmonary motion from medical images - Noah Zimmerman, BS (University of Maryland); PhD
Current: Director, Health Data and Design Innovation Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Assistant Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Thesis: A computational approach to identification and comparison of cell subsets in flow cytometry data
2010
- Yael Garten, BS (Bar-Ilan Univ., Israel); MS (Weizmann Institute of Science); PhD
Current: Director of Siri Data Science & Data Engineering, Apple and Founder, gNetics Systems Inc (Informatics consulting firm)
Thesis: Text mining of the scientific literature to identify pharmacogenomic interactions - Mia Levy, BS (University of Pennsylvania); MD (Rush University); PhD
Current: Director of the Cancer Center, Rush University Medical Center, and System Vice President for Cancer
Thesis: Rule-based response assessment framework - Shih-Jui Ray Lin, BS/MS Nat’l Taiwan University; PhD
MS (University of Utah)
Current: Senior Statistical Scientist, Genentech
Thesis: A stochastic model of cancer progression and screening - Marina Sirota, BS, MS (Stanford), PhD
Current: Assistant Professor at Institute for Computational Health Sciences, UCSF
Thesis: Developing and applying integrative computational methods to study autoimmune disease - Kaustubh Supekar, BE (India); MS (Univ Missouri); PhD
Current: Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
Thesis: Detecting and characterizing large-scale human brain networks - Rong Xu, BS (Beijing University); MSC (Case Western Reserve Univ); MS (Stanford), PhD
Current: Professor, Department of Quantitative & Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University
Thesis: Automatic biomedical information extraction from free text - Peggy Zhen Yao BS/MS (Nat’l Univ of Singapore); PhD
Current: Research Scientist, Facebook
Thesis: Sampling-based exploration of the folded state of a protein under kinematic and geometric constraints
2009
- Michael Cantor, BA (Wesleyan University); MS, PhD
Current: Staff Software Engineer, Pacific Biosciences
Thesis: Rational engineering in synthetic biology : a genetic pulse generator - Shirley Wu, ScB (Brown University); PhD
Current: Director of Health Prodcut, 23andMe
Thesis: Characterization of protein function using automated computational methods
2008
- Maureen Hillenmeyer, BS (Notre Dame); PhD
Current: Founder & CEO, Hexagon Bio
Thesis: Identifying relationships between genes and small molecules, from yeast to humans - Nikesh Kotecha, BS (Boston University); PhD
Current: Vice President of Informatics, Parker Institute of Cancer Immunotherapy
Thesis: Development, management and analysis of flow cytometry based cell signaling assays in a translational research environment to diagnose juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia - Diane Schroeder, BS (Iowa State University); PhD
Current: Computational Biologist
Thesis: Two stories of human transcription regulation : bidirectional promoters and the multiple transcription start sites of FOXP2 - Lucinda Page Southworth, BS (University of Pennsylvania); MS (Oxford University); PhD
Current: Philanthropist
Thesis: Methods for integrating and comparing coexpression information over multiple data sets and applications in mice aging
2007
- Yang Huang, BS (Peking University); MS (Northwestern); MS (Stanford), PhD
Current: Chief Information Officer / Chief Technology Officer, Med Data Quest Inc.
Thesis: Chartindex – a contextual approach to automated standards-based encoding of clinical documents - Kung-Huang (Kevin) Pan, BSEE (Taiwan); MSEE (Stanford), PhD
Current: Assistant Professor, Samford University
Thesis: Gabriel : platform for explicit, systematic analysis of high-throughput genetic data - Zach Pincus, BS, MS (Stanford); PhD
Current: Assistant Professor, Dept of Developmental Biology and Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Thesis: Analysis and applications of quantitative representations of cell morphology - Jing Shi, MB (Beijing Medical University); MA (University of Maryland); PhD
Current: Statistics Consultant, Biotech and Pharmaceutical Companies
Professional interests: Statistical analysis, nutritional aspects of aging
Thesis: Biostatistics and bioinformatics methods for analysis of pathways and gene expression - Andres Tellez, BSC, MS (MIT); PhD
Current: Business Operations and Strategy, Cedilla Therapeutics
Thesis: Protein-protein interactions in poliovirus polymerase : computational and biochemical investigations - Jessica D. Tenenbaum, BA (Harvard); PhD
Current: Chief Data Officer, NC Department of Health and Human Services and Assistant Professor, Duke University
Thesis: Expression-based ligand signature analysis (ELSA) : a foray into integrative systems medicine
2006
- Jiong Ma MS (Rutgers); PhD
Current: BioIT Consultant, Information Specialist, Rutgers
Thesis: Quantitative aspects of gene expression: Analysis of codon usage in microbes and transcriptome profiles of maize anther development - Brian Naughton BS (Trinity College of Dublin); PhD
Current: Founder and Head of Data, Hexagon Bio
Thesis: Sequence analysis methods for the detection of promoters and transcription factor binding sites - Serge Saxonov AB (Harvard); PhD
Current: Co-founder and CEO, 10x Genomics
Thesis: Genome-scale analysis of DNA regulatory sequences - Iwei Yeh BA (Harvard); PhD
Current: Associate Professor of Dermatology and Pathology, UCSF
Thesis: Computational analysis of metabolism for the malaria parasite
2005
- Neil Abernethy BS (NC State University); PhD
Current: Associate Professor, Biomedical Informatics and Medical Eudcation, University of Washington
Thesis: Automating social network models for tuberculosis contact investigation - David L. Buckeridge MD (Queen’s University); MSc (Univ Toronto); PhD ; Completed residency in Community Medicine (University of Toronto)
Current: Professor of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University
Thesis: A method for evaluating outbreak detection in public health surveillance systems that use administrative data - Mike Liang BS (UC San Diego); PhD
Current: International Product Manager, Google
Thesis: Integrating sequence and structure data for identifying functional sites on protein structures - Zhen Lin MB (Peking Union Medical College, China), MS (UC San Francisco), PhD , Registered Nurse
Current: Nurse Scientist, Memorial Hermann Health System at Texas
Medical Center; Co-founder and CEO, Robot Bacon Corporation
Thesis: Balancing utility and anonymity in public biomedical databases - Yueyi (Irene) Liu BS (China); MS (Duke University); PhD, MD (Stanford)
Current: Radiologist, San Jose Medical Center
Thesis: Computational identification of eukaryotic regulatory elements and its application in caenorhabditis elegans - Shuo Liu BS (China); MS (UCLA); PhD
Current: Senior Informatics Scientist, Pharmix Corp
Thesis: Understanding alternative splicing from the perspectives of regulatory mechanisms and functional consequences
2004
- David Almassian BS (Stanford University); MS
Current: Director of Engineering, Tetracore Inc., Washington, DC - Albert Chan BS (Stanford); MD (UC San Diego), MS Board Certified Family Physician; Concurrently completed research fellowship in Department of Family and Community Medicine, UCSF (2002-2004)
Current: Enterprise Vice President, Chief of Digital Patient Experience at Sutter Health - Russ Cucina MD (UC Davis); BA (UC Berkeley); MS , Board Certified Internist
Current: Vice President and Chief Health Information Officer and Professor of Hospital Medicine, UCSF - Rob DeConde BS (Stanford); MS, MD (UCSD), PhD
Current: Fellow of Neuroradiology, University of Washington
2003
- Carol Cheng Cain BS (Stanford); PhD
Current: Executive Director at The Permanente Federation, KP Care Management Institute
Thesis: Representing and reasoning about contextually changing organizational behavior using simulation models of medical work - Jeffrey Chang BS (Stanford), PhD
Current: Postdoc, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University
Thesis: Using machine learning to extract drug and gene relationships from text - Doug Fridsma BS, MD (University of Michigan) PhD
Current: President and CEO of AMIA
Thesis: Organizational simulation of medical work : an information-processing approach - Amit Singh BS (University of Texas, Austin); PhD
Current: Entrepreneur and consultant
Thesis: Computational models for protein structure analysis and protein-ligand binding - Josh Stuart BA/BS (University of Colorado), PhD
Current: Professor and Department Chair of Biomolecular Engineering, UC Santa Cruz
Thesis: Predicting gene function using DNA microarray data from multiple organisms - Olga Troyanskaya BS (University of Richmond); PhD
Current: Professor, Deputy Director of Genomics, Princeton University
Thesis: Improving the specificity of biological signal detection from microarray data
2002
- Amar Das BA (Northwestern), MD (1997); PhD; completed residency in Psychiatry (Columbia)
Current: Program Director of Integrated Care Research, IBM; Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Dartmouth College
Thesis: Temporal mediation of relational databases for clinical decision support - Jonathan Dugan BA (Bowdoin College); MS (University of Texas); PhD
Current: Traveling
Thesis:Using surface envelopes in 3D structure modeling - Xiaole Shirley Liu BA (Smith College); PhD
Current: Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Harvard School of Public Health
Director, Center for Functional Cancer Epigenetics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Associate member, Broad Institute
Thesis: Discovery of transcription factor binding sites using computational statistics - Joseph Norman AB (Harvard); PhD
Current: Hospitalist Physician, Department of Internal Medicine, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Thesis: Analysis of imprecise decision models - David Paik BS/MS (Stanford); PhD
Current: Chief Scientific Officer, Stealth Stage Co.
Thesis: Computer aided interpretation of medical images - Soumya Raychaudhuri BA/BS (SUNY Buffalo); MD (Stanford); PhD
Current: Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Associate Member, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT; Director, Center for Data Sciences, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Thesis: Using text to enhance the interpretation of large multi-dimensional data sets - Scott Schmidler BA (UC Berkeley); PhD
Current: Associate Professor of Statistics and Computer Science, Duke University
Thesis: Statistical models and monte carlo methods for protein structure prediction - George C. Scott BS (Carnegie Mellon); PhD
Current: Medical Director – Clinical Decision Support, SCL Health
Thesis: Using decision models to automate and individualize interactive decision support for patients
2001
- Daniel Berrios MD(UCSF); MPH (UC Berkeley); PhD ; Completed residency in Clinical pathology (UCSF)
Current: Computer Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center (through University of California, Santa Cruz)
Thesis: Methods for semi-automated index generation for high precision information retrieval - Ramon Felciano BA, BS (Stanford); PhD
Current: Chief Technology Officer, Vice President of Research, and Co-Founder, InGenuity Systems Inc.
Thesis: Graphical style sheets : declarative, constraint-based display of biomedical domain graphics
2000
- Cecil Huang BS (Carnegie Mellon); PhD (1999), MD
Board Certified, Anesthesiology and Pain Management
Current: Staff Physician, Inova Loudoun Hospital, Leesburg, VA
Thesis:Intelligent alarms : allocating attention among concurrent processes - Diane Oliver MD (Vanderbilt); PhD Board Certified, American Board of Internal Medicine
Current: Medical Informatics Leader, Kaiser Permanente
Thesis: Change management and synchronization of local and shared versions of a controlled vocabulary - James Ze Wang BS (Univ. Minnesota); MS, MSCS (1997), PhD
Current: Professor of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State
Thesis: Semantics-sensitive integrated matching for picture libraries and biomedical image databases
1994
- John Egar MD(Case Western), PhD
Current: Physician & Founder, Siuslaw Medicial Clinic, Florence, Oregon
Thesis: Construction of normative decision models using abstract graph grammars - Yuval Shahar MD (Hebrew Univ., Israel), MS (Yale); PhD
Current: Professor, Head, Medical Informatics Research Center Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Thesis: A Knowledge-based method for temporal abstraction of clinical data
1993
- Ingo Beinlich MD (Germany); MS
Current: Partner, CIDAR, Palo Alto, CA - H. Christian Davidson MD (University of Utah); MS
Current: Assistant Professor of Radiology, University of Utah; Chief of Neuroimaging, VA Salt Lake City - David Gilbertson BBA (University of Georgia); MS
Current: President and CEO, Dgg Technology Services, LLC; Senior Vice President, TechWerks - Manon Kuilboer MD (University of Utrecht), PhD (Erasmus University), MS
Current: Owner, MediVonk; Docent, Eindhoven University of Technology; Product Manager General Practitioners at VZVZ
1992
- David Heckerman BS and MS (UCLA); PhD (1990); MD
Current: Distinguished Scientist, Amazon
Thesis: Probabilistic similarity networks - Jaap Suermondt BS and MS (Stanford); PhD
Thesis: Explanation in Bayesian belief networks - Michael Walker BS (Queen’s Univ); PhD
Current: Statistics Consultant, California
Thesis: Probability estimation for classification trees and DNA sequence analysis
1991
- Brad Farr MD (University of Utah) PhD
Current: Physician Information Systems Director, Intermountain Health Care Inc. in Salt Lake City, UT
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Informatics, University of Utah
Thesis: Assessment of preferences through simulated decision scenarios - Edward Herskovits MD (UCLA); PhD
Current: Co-Founder and Scientific Advisor, Galileo CDS; Professor, Diagnostic Radiology at The University of Maryland Medical System; Vice Chairman of Informatics and Diagnostic Radiology at The University of Maryland School of Medicine; Founder, RadOptimal
Thesis: Computer-based probabilistic-network construction - Harold Lehmann MD (Columbia); PhD Board Certified Pediatrician
Current: Professor & Director of Research and Training, Division of Health Sciences Informatics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Thesis: A Bayesian computer-based approach to the physician’s use of the clinical research literature
1990
- Thierry Barsalou MD (Paris); PhD
Current: Independent Consultant
Thesis: View objects for relational database - Martin Chavez BS and SM (Harvard); PhD
Current: Partner, Goldman Sachs; Member, Board of Overseers, Harvard University; Member Board of Trustees, IAS; Board Member, Los Angeles Philharmonic; Member, Board of Fellows, Stanford University
Thesis: Architectures and approximation algorithms for probabilistic expert systems - David Heckerman BS and MS (UCLA); PhD (Stanford) (1990); MD
Current: Distinguished Scientist and Vice President of Health and Wellness, Amazon - Eric Horvitz BA (Binghamton University); PhD, MD (1993)
Current: Technical Fellow and Director, Microsoft Research Labs and AI
Thesis: Computation and action under bounded resources - Holly Jimison BS (Illinois); PhD
Current: Professor, College of Computer & Information Science, Northeastern University
Research interests: Consumer Health Informatics, with an emphasis on in-home monitoring and technology for successful aging.
Thesis: A Representation for gaining insight into clinical decision models
1999
- Wanda Pratt MS (Univ. of Texas); PhD
Current: Professor in Information School and Division of Biomedical & Health Informatics, University of Washington
Thesis: Dynamic categorization : a method for decreasing information overload - Smadar Shiffman MS (Tel Aviv Univ., Israel); PhD
Current: Principal, Eilat Consulting
Thesis: Segmentation of medical image volumes using intrinsic shape information - Maria Tovar MS in EES (Stanford); MS (1992), PhD
Current: Computer Graphics Technologist and SW Manager, Apple Computer
Thesis: Vector-field analysis for phase-contrast magnetic resonance angiography - Liping Wei BS, China ; MS, Brown University; PhD
Current: Professor and Director, Center of Bioinformatics, Peking Univ., Beijing
Thesis: Automated annotation of sites in protein structures
1998
- Gillian Sanders AB (Princeton); PhD
Current: Deputy Director, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, and Professor of Population Health Sciences at Duke
Thesis: Automated creation of clinical-practice guidelines from decision models
1997
- Keith Campbell MD (University of Southern California); PhD
Current: Director of Informatics Architecture, U.S. Veterans Health Administration
Thesis: Distributed development of a logic-based controlled medical terminology - Malcolm Pradhan MB, BS (Australia), PhD
Current: Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder, VP Clinical Systems at Alcidion Corporation
Thesis: Efficient approximation in decision models using Monte Carlo simulation - Ida Sim MD (Stanford); PhD
Current: Professor of Medicine and Co-Director of Biomedical Informatics, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, UCSF; Co-Founder, Open mHealth
Thesis: Trial banks : an informatics foundation for evidence-based medicine - Rhea Tombropoulos BA (Harvard); PhD (1997)
Current: Principal Engineer, HeartFlow
Thesis:Treatment planning for image-guided robotic radiosurgery
1996
- Tod Klingler BS (Stanford); PhD
Current: Pursuing his next adventure
Thesis: Structural inference from correlations in biological sequences - Lucila Ohno-Machado MD, MHA (University of Sao Paulo); PhD
Current: Chair, UC San Diego Health, Department of Biomedical Informatics; Associate Dean for Informatics and Technology
Thesis: Medical applications of artificial neural networks : connectionist models of survival - Ramani Pichumani MSEE, EngrD (Stanford); PhD
Current: Software Architect, Carl Zeiss SBE
Thesis: Construction of a three-dimensional geometric model for segmentation and visualization of cervical spine images - Alex Poon BA (Stanford); PhD
Current: Co-Founder and General Partner, UP2398; Co-Founder and CEO, Bonfire Media, Inc.
Thesis:Optimizing the task of menu selection for large controlled vocabularies - Gretchen Purcell Jackson BS (Stanford); MD/PhD (Stanford)
Current: Vice President and Scientific Medical Officer, Digital, Intuitive Surgical
Thesis: Contextual document models for searching the clinical literature - Walter Sujansky AB (Harvard); PhD , MD(Stanford, 1996)
Current: President, Sujansky & Associates, LLC, San Carlos, CA
Thesis: A Formal model for bridging heterogeneous relational databases in clinical medicine
1995
- Geoffrey Rutledge MD and CM (McGill); PhD Board-Certified in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine
Current: Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder, HealthTap
Thesis: Dynamic selection of models
1989
- Russ Altman AB (Harvard); PhD
Current: Professor of Bioengineering, Genetics and Medicine (and Computer Science, by courtesy), Stanford University.
Thesis: Exclusion methods for the determination of protein structure from experimental data
1988
- Michael Kahn MD (UC San Diego); PhD UCSF
Current: Director of Research, Rodeer Systems, Boulder, CO
Thesis: Model-based interpretation of time-ordered medical data - Mark Musen MD (Brown); PhD Board-Certified Internist
Current: Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University
Thesis: Generation of model-based knowledge-acquisition tools for clinical-trial advice systems
1987
- No PhDs this year
1986
- Glenn Rennels MD (Dartmouth); PhD
Current: Chief Technology Officer and senior physician (Anesthesiology), Permanente Medical Group
Thesis: A computational model of reasoning from the clinical literature
1985
- Greg Cooper BS (MIT); PhD (1985), MD (1986)
Current: Professor of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh; Vice Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics; Director of the Center for Causal Discovery
Thesis: NESTOR : a computer-based medical diagnostic aid that integrates causal and probabilistic knowledge
1975-76
- Edward H. Shortliffe AB (Harvard, 1970); PhD (1975), MD (1976)
Current: Adjunct Professor Of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY; Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics, College of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ; Adjunct Professor of Health Policy and Research (Health Informatics), Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY; Senior Executive Consultant, IBM Watson Health, Cambridge, MA; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Biomedical Informatics.
Thesis: Computer-Based Medical Consultations: MYCIN (1975)
Book version (1976) freely available online.
Academic MS
2026
- Ziyi Wang, MS
Machine Learning Engineer at Pony.ai
2025
- Susie Avagyan, MS
PhD at DBDS Stanford University - Wenyuan Chen, MS
- Rohit Khurana, MS
Medical Scientist Training Program, University of Pennsylvania - Chase Ludwig, MS
Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology, Stanford University - Thodsawit Tiyarattanachai, MS
- Manoj Maddali, MS
Medical Director of Informatics and Predictive Analytics at Piedmont Healthcare
2024
- Danning Fu, Academic MS
PhD student in Dept of Computer Science, Stanford - Aditi Goyal, Academic MS
Data Scientist at Natera - Samvel Gyurdzhyan, Academic MS
- Rachel Yu, Academic MS
MLE Intern at Adobe - Riya Sinha, Academic MS
CS PhD Student, Stanford - Ying Sun, Academic MS
Data Science Intern at Merck Group - Qianhui Zheng, Academic MS
Bioinformatics Engineer, Guangzhou Laboratory
2023
- Yousuf Khan, MS
Completing PhD - Matthew Schwede, MS
Hematologist at Swedish
2022
- Thomas Asha, MS
Bioinformatics Engineer, Grail - Katelyn Bechler, MS
Senior Bioinformatics Engineer, GRAIL, Inc. - Jeff Choi, MS
Residential Physician-General Surgery Geneticist and Data Scientist, Stanford Health Care - Nicholas Deveau, MS
Head of Data, Vanna Health - Chloe He, MS
Machine Learning Engineer, Stealth Startup - Vivian Ho, MS
Vascular Surgery Resident, Stanford Health Care - Mahdi Moqri, MS
NLM Postdoctoral Fellow in Aging Research, Stanford University School of Medicine - Dylan Peterson, MS
Urology Residency, Stanford Health Care - Rosie Sowers, MS
2021
- Sheun Aluko, MS
Resident Physician, Barnes Jewish Hospital - YoonChung Chey, MS
Consultant, Bain and Company - Jacob Edelson, MS
NCI Fellow, The National Institutes of Health - Derek Jow, MS
- Yieng Terry Li, MS
Deep Learning Research Scientist; Machine Learning Researcher, Subtle Medical, Stanford University - Katherine Shi, MS
Associate, McKinsey and Company - Sophia Wang, MS
MD, Assistant Professor, Byers Eye Institute
2020
- Michael Chavez, MS
Synthetic Biologist, PhD candidate, Stanford University - Julien Hedou, MS
CEO and Founder, Surge - Sehj Kashyap, MS
Product Lead, Clinkk - Karen Ouyang, MS
Clinical Molecular Geneticist and Data Scientist, Invitae - Carlos Jose Suarez, MS
Clinical Assistant Professor, Pathology Clinical, Stanford University - Ashton Teng, MS
Senior Bioinformatics and Data Engineer, Grail - Elizabeth Tran, MS
Research Data Analyst, Machine Learning Scientist at Inflammatrix - Juan Manuel Zambrano Chaves, MS
BMI/PhD student, Stanford University
2019
- Tymor Hamamsy, MS
Co-founder, Fermat’s Library - Mia Kanzawa, MS
Internal Medicine Resident, Kaiser Permanente San Francisco - Brianna Kozemzak Mattia, MS
Software Engineer II, Crowdstrike - Haomin Peng, MS
Research Engineer, plusAI - Eric Wei, MS
Bioinformatics Analyst, Mike Snyder’s lab, Stanford University
2018
- Pierre-Louise Cedoz, MS
Machine Learning Engineer at Google - Carson Lam, MS
Lead Machine Learning Engineer, care.coach - Soltan Masood Malekghassemi, MS
- Chloe O’Connell, MS
Data Scientist at Medable, Inc. - Martin Seneviratne, MS
Senior Clinician Scientist, Google - Husham Sharifi, MS
Faculty in Pulmonary Critical Care at Stanford Hospital & Clinics - Archana Shenoy, MS
Bioinformatics Scientist at GRAIL, Inc. - Mamie Wang, MS
Bioinformatician, Center for Cellular Immunotherapies at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
2017
- Sandeep Ayyar, MS
- Tej Deepak Azad, MS
Resident Physician, Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins Medicine - Rui Shu, MS
PhD student, Computer Science, Stanford
2016
- Tej Azad, MS
Resident Physician, Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins Medicine - Becky Xu Hua Fu, MS
Postdoctoral Researcher, UCSF (Luke Gilbert) - Heather Hall, MS
Senior Data Scientist, ConcertAI - David Odgers, MS
Data Science Engineer Consultant, VIRJ.ai - Tanya Podchiyska, MS
- Marcos Prunello, MS
PhD student, Austral University - Manoj Sharma, MS
Director of Biostatistics, Grail - Rui Shu, MS
Computer Science PhD Student, Stanford University - David Stark, MS
Chief Medical Officer, Head of Data & Analytics, Morgan Stanley - Dana Wyman, MS
Bioinformatics Scientist, Helix
2015
- Tse-jen (Jerome) Ku, MS
- Vinnie Liu, MS
Research Scientist and Staff Intensivist, Kaiser Permanente (MD from NYU) - Kimberly McManus, MS
Presidential Innovation Fellow, White House, Department of Veterans Affairs - Tim Sweeney, MS
Co-Founder & CEO, Inflammatix (MD, PhD from Duke)
2014
- Collin Melton, PhD (UCSF), MS
Current: Associate Director, Bioinformatics and Data Science at GRAIL, Inc. - Wei Wang, MS
Current: Senior Research Scientist, Basebit Technologies
2013
- Hua Fan-Minogue, MS
(MD from Peking Univ, PhD from UAB) - Amit Kaushal, MS
Clinical Assistant Professor; Adjunct Professor, Stanford Bioengineering, Stanford University (also holds MD, PhD from Stanford – dual listing, ambiguous) - Alicia Martin, MS
Instructor in Investigation, Massachusetts General Hospital - Shanshan Tuo, MS
Data Scientist, xAd, Inc. (PhD from Stanford Genetics, separate program) - Xueheng Zhao, MS
Research Associate, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
2012
- Robert Arrigo, MS
Anesthesiologist, Stanford Health Care - Peter Kang, MS
Vice President of Translational Research, Tempus Labs - Daniel Li, MS
Senior Platform Engineer, Crunchbase - David Maslove, MS
Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Critical Care Medicine, Queen’s University - Jon Palma, MS
Neonatologist, Pediatrix Medical Group - Steve Pan, MS
Associate Professor of Medicine, New York Medical College
2011
- Rob Tirrell, MS
Deceased 2012 - Brendan Todaro, MS
Senior Software Engineer, Tinder Inc.
2010
- No Academic MS Grads in 2010
2009
- Sarim Baig, MS
Bioinformatics and Computer Science instructor in Pakistan - Nadeem Riaz, MS
Assistant Attending, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2008
- Genaro Hernandez, MS
Medical Laboratory Technician, Adventist Health - Runa Islam, MS
Lead Business Strategist, Well-Being Transformation, CVS Health - Nadeem Riaz, MS
Resident, Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
2007
- Aneel Advani, MS
Chairman & CEO, Global Virtual Group - Michael Cantor, MS
Computer Scientist, Joint Genome Institute - Kurt Huang, MS
CEO and Co-founder, Mozart Medical - John Park, MS
Researcher, Computer Science Dept, University of Maryland
2006
- Roni Zeiger, MS
Head of Health Strategy, Facebook
2005
- Nhan Do, MS
Director, Informatics Center, MAVERIC, VA Boston Healthcare System - Dan Zisook, MS
Director of Medical Informatics, Kaiser Permanente
2004
- David Almassian BS (Stanford University); MS
Current: Director of Engineering, Tetracore Inc., Washington, DC - Albert Chan BS (Stanford); MD (UC San Diego), MS Board Certified Family Physician; Concurrently completed research fellowship in Department of Family and Community Medicine, UCSF (2002-2004)
Current: Enterprise Vice President, Chief of Digital Patient Experience at Sutter Health - Russ Cucina MD (UC Davis); BA (UC Berkeley); MS , Board Certified Internist
Current: Vice President and Chief Health Information Officer and Professor of Hospital Medicine, UCSF - Rob DeConde BS (Stanford); MS, MD (UCSD), PhD
Current: Fellow of Neuroradiology, University of Washington
2003
- Todd Ferris, MS
Chief Technology Officer, Information Resources & Technology, Stanford University School of Medicine - Greg Garrison, MS
Senior Associate Consultant, Mayo Clinic, Department of Family Medicine - Michelle Green, MS
Executive Director of Consulting Services, Quantitative Solutions
2002
- Phillip Cheng, MS
Associate Professor of Clinical Radiology, University of Southern California - Justin Graham, MS
Principal, JVG Healthcare
2001
- Elmer Bernstam, MS
Professor and Associate Dean for Research, School of Biomedical Informatics, UT Health Science Center at Houston - John Michon, MS
Consultant in Data Science, Genentech
2000
- Elizabeth Burnside, MS
Senior Associate Dean, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin - John Nguyen, MS
- Daniel Rubin, MS
Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Radiology, and Medicine at Stanford School of Medicine - John Shon, MS
Chief Technology Officer, SerImmune Inc. - Howard Strasberg, MS
Vice-President of Medical Informatics at Wolters Kluwer Health
1999
- No Academic MS Grads
1998
- Richard Chen BS/MS (Stanford); MS , MD (2007)
Current: Chief Scientific Officer, Personalis, and Attending Physician, Stanford Dermatology
1997
- Chris Flowers, MS
Chair, Professor, Department of Lymphoma/Myeloma, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas
1996
- William Detmer, MS
President, Unbound Medicine Inc., Charlottesville - Gretchen Purcell Jackson, MS
Vice President and Chief Science Officer, IBM Watson Health (also MD/PhD)
1995
- Geoffrey Rutledge MD and CM (McGill); PhD Board-Certified in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine
Current: Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder, HealthTap
Thesis: Dynamic selection of models
1994
- Adam Galper, MS
Advisor/Investor for Startups
1993
- Ingo Beinlich MD (Germany); MS
Current: Partner, CIDAR, Palo Alto, CA - H. Christian Davidson MD (University of Utah); MS
Current: Assistant Professor of Radiology, University of Utah; Chief of Neuroimaging, VA Salt Lake City - David Gilbertson BBA (University of Georgia); MS
Current: President and CEO, Dgg Technology Services, LLC; Senior Vice President, TechWerks - Manon Kuilboer MD (University of Utrecht), PhD (Erasmus University), MS
Current: Owner, MediVonk; Docent, Eindhoven University of Technology; Product Manager General Practitioners at VZVZ
1992
- David Heckerman, MS
Distinguished Scientist, Amazon (PhD is 1990, also has MD) - Kevin Johnson, MS
Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor and Chair, Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center - David Millis, MS
Psychiatrist, Center for Psychiatric & Addiction Treatment, Manassas, Virginia - Ricardo Peverini, MS
Vice Dean for Clinical Faculty, Loma Linda University School of Medicine
1991
- Suzanne Bakken RN, DNSc (UCSF); Postdoctoral fellow (1991-92)
Current: Professor of Nursing and of Medical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY - Brad Farr MD (University of Utah) PhD
Current: Physician Information Systems Director, Intermountain Health Care Inc. in Salt Lake City, UT
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Informatics, University of Utah
Thesis: Assessment of preferences through simulated decision scenarios - Edward Herskovits MD (UCLA); PhD
Current: Co-Founder and Scientific Advisor, Galileo CDS; Professor, Diagnostic Radiology at The University of Maryland Medical System; Vice Chairman of Informatics and Diagnostic Radiology at The University of Maryland School of Medicine; Founder, RadOptimal
Thesis: Computer-based probabilistic-network construction - Harold Lehmann MD (Columbia); PhD Board Certified Pediatrician
Current: Professor & Director of Research and Training, Division of Health Sciences Informatics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Thesis: A Bayesian computer-based approach to the physician’s use of the clinical research literature
1990
- Leslie Lenert, MS
Assistant Provost for Data Science and Informatics, Medical University of South Carolina - Richard Lin, MS
Staff Physician, Northport VA Hospital; Professor, Stony Brook University - Jeanette Polaschek, MS
Hospital Management Consultant - Eric Sherman, MS
Partner, Concorde Medical Group, PLLC; Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, NYU - Michael Shwe, MS
Product Manager, Google
1989
- Curt Langlotz, MS
Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Informatics, Stanford University (also MD/PhD) - John Reed, MS
President, John Reed Consulting - George Thomsen, MS
Private practice Pulmonary Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
1988
- Homer Chin, MS
Physician, Kaiser Permanente Northwest - Joan Differding, MS
Technical Manager, Director of the Multi-Mission Operations Center, NASA Ames Research Center - Michael Goldbaum, MS
Professor of Ophthalmology, Co-director Retina and Vitreous Service, UC San Diego - Don Rucker, MS
National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), US Dept of HHS
1987
- Mark Frisse MD, MBA (Washington University); MS
Current: Accenture Professor and Vice Chairman, Business Development, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Visiting Professor, The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth - Janet McLaughlin MS (UC Davis); MS
Current: Principal, Videre Design - Leslie Perreault BA (Stanford); MS
Current: Writer and independant consultant, California. - Isabelle de Zegher-Geets MD, MS (Belgium); MS
Current: Founder, BeeLoba
1986
- Stephen Downs BA (Colorado); MD (1986), MS
Current: Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Vice-Chair, General and Community Pediatrics, Indiana University; Director, Children’s Health Services Research, Indiana University; Investigator, Regenstrief Institute, Inc.
1985
- No Academic MS Grads
1975-76
- No Academic MS Grads
Co-Terminal
2026
- Juan Carlos Espinal-Mejia, Co-term
- Amanda Rodriguez, Co-term — Citrus Oncology and a Healthcare AI Specialist
- Michael Rutherford, Co-term — Applying for Biophysics PhD
- Gloria Vergara Neyra, Co-term
2025
- Leslie Espinoza Campomanes, Co-term
Digital Bioengineer, Automage, Inc - Ariana Kalili, Co-term
- May Levin, Co-term
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Cambridge University - Sophie Longo, Co-term
MD-Ph.D. student, UC San Diego Medical Scientist Training Program - Jodie Meng, Co-term
Medical student, Vanderbilt University - John N Wang, Co-term
Protein Design, Xiara Therapeutics - Micha Williams, Co-term
- Imogen, Gardiner, Co-term
MS in Leadership and Project Management at Boston College
- Adyant, Shankar, Co-term
Founder at Medicuity
2024
- Camryn Franke
Life Science Research Professional at Stanford Medicine - Clarisse Hokia
Teaching Assistant at The Coding School - Navami Jain
- Alexandra Littleton
- Bikal Sharma
Medical Student, Kaiser Permanente - Funmi Solano
Medical Executive Support Fellow, Ravenswood Family Health Network - Roger Xia
Research Assistant, Stanford
2023
- Madeline Dailey
Emergency Department Technician at St. Charles Health System - Ryan Han
Medical Science Training Program, UCLA - Alex Loia
Software Engineer at Fondo - Fan Liu
Data Scientist, Novo Nordisk - Sophie Parsa
Computational Associate at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard - Ethan Schonfeld
Current: Medical Student, Stanford University School of Medicine
2022
- Evgeniya Borisenko
Current: Bioinformatics Analyst, Knomx Contract Research - Marilu Bravo
Current: Software Engineer, Palantir Technologies - Allen Huang
Current: Software Developer, Apple - Jacklyn Luu
Current: Instructor, Inspirit AI - Erica Olsen
- Valerie Przekop
Current: Consulting Associate Director Product Development & Compliance Concultant, PDC Pharma Strategy - Ramond Yin
Current: Research Assistant, Stanford - Hongman Zhu
Current: PhD Student at University of Notre Dame
2021
- Alea Delmastro
Current: PhD Student in Innunology, Stanford - Filip Grantchrov
Current: Data Scientist, Surgical Safety Technologies Inc. - Emily Guthrie
Current: N/A - Sandra Kong
Current: N/A - Jiwoo Lee
Current: Computational Genomics Researcher, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard - Erika Malaspina
Current: N/A - Keaton Ollech
Current: Data Analyst, Ravenswood Family Health Center - Christina Savvides
Current: MSTP MD/PhD Student, University of Washington - Vardhaan Sai Ambati
Current: Undergraduate Research Assistant, Stanford - Keanu Spies
Current: Machine Learning Researcher, Spren - Nicole Taylor
Current: N/A - Victoria Valverde
Current: Investment Banking Analyst, Golgman Sachs - Sophia Wang
Current: Assistant Professor – Byers Eye Institute, Stanford
2020
- Luisa Galhardo
Current: N/A - Jamie MacFarlane
Current: Product Manager, DoorDash - Efrat Nehoran
Current: Software Engineer, Google - Nicolai Ostberg
Current: N/A - Jan Sokol
Current: N/A - Blanca Villanueva
Current: Machine Learning Engineer, Apple
2019
- Shankara Anand
Current: Associate Computational Biologist, MIT & Harvard - Tynan Challenor
Current: Graduate Teaching Assistant- Biology, Stanford - Connor Brinton
Current: Tech Lead Manager- Staff Engineer, Primer.ai - Richard Bertram Hojel
Current: Engagement Manager, McKinsey & Company - Drake Johnson
Current: Consulting Geophysicist at Society Of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) half time - Pallavi Krishnarao
Current: Undergraduate Research Assistant, Stanford - Majed Magzoub
Current: N/A - Karina Samuel-Gama
Current: Data Scientist Genomics, Calico Life Sciences - Gabriela Steiner
Current: Internship, Data Science Team, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy - Jonathan Wang
Current: Advisor, Shimmer - Quinton Wessells
Current: Software Engineer, Computational Biology, Arbor Biotechnologies
2018
- Eric Cramer
Current: MD/PhD Student, Oregon Health & Science University - William Du
Current: Tech Lead Manager, Primer.ai - Scott Fleming
Current: PhD Student, Stanford Biomedical Informatics Program - Katherine Hufker
Current: Software Engineer, Facebook - Shiribi Ish-Shalom
Current: AI Product Manager, Intuit - Sebastian Le Bras
Current: Software Engineer in Test III – Computational Biology, 10x Genomics - Emily Marx
Current: N/A - Matthew Millett
Current: Medical Student, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis - Kojo Osei
Current: Partner at Mtrix Partners - Shaurya Saluja
Current: Co-Founder, Startup - Kevin Song
Current: Lead, Data Science Technical Lead, Credit Suisse - Victoria (Yue An) Wang
Current: Optical Engineer at Apple - Timothy Wu
Current: Medical student, Stanford School of Medicine
2017
- Emily Alsentzer
Current: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Brigham and Women’s Hospital - Oliver Bear Don’t Walk IV
Current: PhD student, Columbia Department of Biomedical Informatics - David Cohn
Current: Statistical Data Scientist, Pfizer - Lauren Ellis
Current: Anesthesiology Resident, UCLA Health - Noah Friedman
Current: Senior Cancer Genomics Analyst, C2i Genomics - Danielle Kain
Current: Software Engineer, Google - Brad Hammoor
Current: Orthopaedic Surgery Resident, Harvard Medical School - Timothy ManHay Lee
Current: N/A - Kathleen Rose Skelly
Current: Co-founder and CTO, Known Medicine - Jason Yang
Current: Data Scientist, NEOGOV - Christine Yeh
Current: MD/PHD Student, Biomedical Informatics, Stanford - Michelle Zhao
Current: Software Development Engineer II, Twitch
2016
- Maheetha Bharadwaj
Current: Research Assistant, Stanford - Warren Chan
Current: Medical Research Fellow, Relay Investments - Claire Margolis
Current: Product Manager, Verily Life Sciences - Laurie Ann Rumker
Current: MD-PhD Student, Harvard Medical School - Aaditya Shidham
Current: N/A - Sanjay Siddhanti
Current: Software Engineer, Counsyl - Ellen Tsay
Current: Orthopaedic Surgery Resident, UCSF - Dana Wyman
Current: Bioinformatics Scientist, Helix
2015
- Lauren Edelson
Current: MBA Candidate, Harvard Business School - Chelsea Lewis
Current: Software Engineer, Google - Isaac Madan
Current: Cofounder & CEO, Nightfall AI
2014
- Sam Finlayson
Current: MSTP student, Harvard-MIT MD-PhD program - Theo Roth
Current: Resident in Clinincal Pathology, Stanford
2013
- Sarah Xing
Current: Data Scientist, Practice Fusion
2012
- Stuart Blair
Current: Software Developer, Beckman Coulter Life Sciences - Nicelio Sanchez-Luege
Current: MSTP (MD/PhD) program, University of Chicago
2011
- Jennifer Chen
Current: Bioinformatics Graduate Student, MIT - Anir Ghazvinian
Current: Technical Staff, Alto Pharmacy - Jason Wheeler
Current: Product Manager, Google - Arthur Yang
Current: Stanford Orthopaedic Surgery
2010
- Alex Gaidarski
Current: Surgery Fellow, Orlando Health - Nick Perry
Current: Cofounder and CEO of Candid Health - Amanda Christian Richards
Current: Software Engineer, Mindbody Inc. - Huy Seng
Current: Chief Operating Officer, Passfolio - Trevor Shaddox
Current: Graduate Student Researcher, UCLA - Robert Maxwell Zamkow
Current: Managing Partner, Editor in Chiief, Third Act Ventures
2009
- Florian Schmitzberger
Current: Physician, University of Michigan - Jason Turner-Maier
Current: Associate Computational Biologist, Broad Institute
2008
- Nina Gonzaludo
Current: Pharmacogenomics & HLA Market Development, Pacific Biosciences
2007
- Aaron Tam
Current: Senior Software Engineer, Google
2006
- Kyle Bruck
Current: Algorithmic Trader, Jump Trading, LLC - Samantha (Chui) Scovanner
Current: Director of Product Management Chan Zuckerberg Initiative - Chester Shiu
Current: General Counsel, Emerald Cloud Lab - Marina Sirota
Current: Assistant Professor, Institute for Computational Health Sciences, UCSF
2005
- Tyrone Anderson
Current: VP, Solutions Engineering & Consulting, BlueKai - Ali Raza, Awan
Current: Lead Research Scientist, - Vincent Dorie
Current: Principle Data Scientist, Code for America - Varun Gajendran
Current: Orthopaedic Surgery Resident, Stanford - Alex Himel
Current: Vice President Augmented Reality, Facebook - William Lu
Current: N/A - Caroline Moore-Kochlacs
Current: N/A
2004
- Ali Raza Awan
Current: Lead Research Scientist, Genomics Innovation Unit, Guy’s Hospital London - Kaizad Cama
Current: Head of Risk for Global Private Credit, Blackrock - Amit Garg
Current: Cofounder of Tau Ventures - Amit Kaushal
Current: Adjunct Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University School of Medicine; Attending Physician, Internal Medicine, VA Palo Alto - Surag Mantri
Current: Consultant & Strategic Advisor - Vikram Mohan
Current: Head of Digital Health Solutions, Roche
2003
- Zachary Scott Pincus
Current: Assistant Professor, Dept of Developmental Biology, Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
Honors Cooperative Program MS (HCP)
2026
- Yifu Chen, HCP
- Madhuvanti Sharma, HCP
2025
- Paulina Paiz, HCP
- Jimmy Qian, HCP
President at Osmid
2024
- Gabrielle Bunney, HCP
Emergency Physician, Assistant Professor, Dept. Emergency Medicine, Stanford University - Ran Geng, HCP
Director, OrbiMed - Hannah Grossman, HCP
Senior Software Engineer, Cedar - Michelle Chia-Jui Hung, HCP
Software Engineer at LinkedIn - Claire Martin, HCP
Senior Data Scientist at Prolaio - Peter McCaffrey, HCP
Chief AI Officer, University of Texas Medical Branch - Eric Pan, HCP
Embarking on start-up venture
2023
- Chenyu Li, HCP
Health Research Scientist at CalPERS - Srikar Rao Nallan, HCP
Senior Director at Stanford HealthCare - Abby Pandya, HCP
Current: Data Science Product Management, Stanford Healthcare
2022
- Gary Burnett, HCP
Current: Data Scientist, NVIDIA - Emily Dong, HCP
Current: Senior Engineer, Genentech - Sebastian Kronmueller, HCP
Current: VP, Head of Strategy & Business Development, Siemens Healthineers - Adam Papini, HCP
- Joshua Price, HCP
Current: Bioinformatics Contractor/Consultant, JMP Projects LLC - Yuyang Xia, HCP
- Eric Yeh, HCP
Current: Ophthalmology Resident at National Taiwan University Hospital
2021
- Greggory McInnes, HCP
Current: Senior Scientist, Emprico Inc. - Nicholas Phillips, HCP
Current: Machine Learning Engineering, GSK - Kostya Sebov, HCP
Current: Staff Software Engineer, Ambient.ai - Masaki Yamada, HCP
Current: Product Manager, Culture Biosciences
2020
- Sehj Kashyap, HCP
Current: Product Lead, Clinikk - Karen Ouyang, HCP
Current: Clinical Molecular Geneticist and Data Scientist, Invitae - Alexander Ruch, HCP
Current: Director, Charles Schwab - Carlos Suarez, HCP
- Elizabeth Tran, HCP
Current: Machine Learning Scientist, Stanford
2019
- Alon Ben-Ari, HCP
Current: CMIO, Associate Chief of Staff for Clinical Informatics Northern California VA Health Care System - Anna Brezhneva, HCP
Current: Product Manager, Betteromics - Majed Magzoub, HCP
- Abby Pandya, HCP
Current: VP of Strategic Partnerships, Olive - Tiffany Wang, HCP
Current: Scientist III, Thermo Fisher Scientific
2018
- Sombudha Adhikari, HCP
Current: Director & VP, IMPL Solutions - Ashley Elliott Lui, HCP
Current: CTO and Co-Founder at Travelnuts, Inc. - Evan Minty, HCP
Current: Knowledge Lead (Medicine) at Alberta Health Services - Alex C. Wells, HCP
Current: Scripps Institute Research Consultant, Vanderbilt Medical Student
2017
- Evan Minty, HCP
Current: Physician Builder, Clinical Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, Alberta Health Services
2016
- Ken Ferrell, HCP
Current: System Director Data Science, CommpnSpirit Health - Kranthi Gandrapu, HCP
Current: Senior Technical Product Manager, Meta - Ivan Ip, HCP
Current: Chief Medical Information Officer, Covenant Health
2015
- Anthony Chang, HCP
Current: Founder, Medical Intelligence 10 - Peter Lamb, HCP
Current: Computer Scientist, GE Global Research Center, New York - Eric Wong, HCP
Current: Group Chief Clinical Informatics Officer, National Healthcare Group
2013
- Marisa Torres, HCP
Current: Bioinformatics Lead, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
2012
- Tomer Altman, HCP
Current: Senior Bioinformatics/ Data Science Consultant, Altman Analytics LLC - Ming Guo, HCP
Current: University of Texas Medical Branch, Business Intelligence Manager; Volunteer at the Rare Genomics Institute - David Maslove, HCP
Current: Clinical Scientist in the Departments of Medicine and Critical Care Medicine; Assistant Professor, Queen’s University - Mike Polcari, HCP
Current: VP & Chief Architect, 23andMe - Mark A. Smith, HCP
Current: Software Engineer, Facebook
2011
- Viji Ganapathi, HCP
Current: Senior Engineering Manager, Pure Storage
2009
- Joel Dudley, HCP
Current: Chief Scientific Ifficer; Co-Founder and Scientific Advisor, Tempus Labs Inc. - Ron Gonzalez, HCP
Current: Senior Director Machine Learning AI, Visa - Kenneth Jung, HCP
Current: Machine Learning Engineer, Apple - Randal Walker, HCP
Current: Bioinformatics Engineer
2008
- Rahul Choudhury, HCP
Current: Senior Software Engineer Manager, NVIDIA - Chirag Patel, HCP
Current: BMI PhD. Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
2007
- Christina Lu, HCP
Current: Executive Director and Head of Data Management and Engineering, Genentech - Venkata Saripalli, HCP
Current: Vice President, Berkeley Lights, Inc.
2006
- Krithika Ramamoorthy, HCP
Current: Senior Director, Genentech
2005
- Steven Lin, HCP
Current: Deceased 2015 - David Patariu, HCP
Current: Senior Privacy Counsel (Privacy, Ad, Tech, & Cybersecurity), Instacart
2004
- Prashanth Ranganathan, HCP
Current: Chief Executive Officer, PayU Credit LazyPay
PhD Minor
2024
- Xianghao Zhan, PhD Minor
Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford
2023
- Ellen Bouchard, PhD Minor
Computational Biologist at Oregon Health and Science University
2022
- Ioannis Kipouros, PhD Minor
Postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley
2020
- Samantha Piekos, PhD Minor
Current: Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Institute of Systems Biology
2019
- Erika Bongen, PhD Minor
Current: Scientist , Immuno-Oncology Translational Bioinformatics at Bristol-Myers Squibb
2017
- Bing Wu, PhD Minor
Current: Scientist, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
2016
- Yunqin Lee, PhD Minor
Current: Exploring opportunities
2012
- Saeed Hassanpour, PhD Minor
Current: Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College
