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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 - Tim Keyes, PhD
Data Scientist (AI/ML) at Stanford Healthcare - David Kuo, PhD
Developmental Clinical Science at Genentech - Kelley Paskov, PhD
Computational Biologist - Daniel Nicolas Sosa, PhD
Co-Founder at Parsnip
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
Senior Bioinformaticist Consultant, Altman Analytics LLC - Pablo Cordero, PhD
Data Science, Stripe - Francisco Gimenez, PhD
Partner at 8VC - Mike Januszyk, PhD
(MD from Univ of Chicago) - Ken Jung, PhD
Machine Learning Engineer, Apple - Tiffany Ting Liu, PhD
- Jonathan Mortensen, PhD
Founder, CTO, bit.io - Diego Munoz, PhD
Data Scientist, Meta - Daniel Newburger, PhD
Software Engineer, Google - Katie Planey, PhD
Co-Founder & CTO, Mantra Bio - David Poznik, PhD
Senior Scientist I, Population Geneticist, 23andMe
2014
- Rob Bruggner, PhD
VP of Value Platform, Nuna, Inc. - Guy Haskin Fernald, PhD
Staff Data Scientist, Foresite Capital - Yi Liu, PhD
Software Engineer, Waymo - Brian Maples, PhD
Chief Technology Officer, Naring Health
2013
- Andy Beck, PhD
Co-founder, President and CEO, PathAI (MD from Brown) - Konrad Karczewski, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital - Jesse Rodriguez, PhD
Software Engineer, Google (MS also from Stanford)
2012
- Sarah Aerni, PhD
Director of Data Science and Engineering, Salesforce - Tiffany Chen, PhD
Group Product Manager, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (also MS from Stanford) - Erik Corona, PhD
Data Science Senior Manager, Cigna - Wei-Nchih Lee, PhD
Medical Informaticist at Evidation Health - Linda Liu Miller, PhD
Assistant Vice President of Strategy, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia - Sam Pearlman, PhD
Genomics Software Engineer, Myriad Genetics (also MS from Stanford) - Nick Tatonetti, PhD
Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University
2011
- David Chen, PhD
Co-founder & CDO, Nuna Inc. (also MS from Johns Hopkins) - Joel Dudley, PhD
Senior Vice President of Research, Tempus Inc. - Alex Morgan, PhD
Principal, Khosla Ventures (also MD from Stanford, MS from Tufts) - Chirag Patel, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School (also MS from Stanford) - Guanglei Xiong, PhD
Senior Manager and Distinguished Scientist of Artificial Intelligence, Accenture - Noah Zimmerman, PhD
Director, Health Data and Design Innovation Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
2010
- Yael Garten, PhD
Director of Siri Data Science & Data Engineering, Apple and Founder, gNetics Systems Inc - Mia Levy, PhD
Director of the Cancer Center, Rush University Medical Center - Shih-Jui Ray Lin, PhD
Senior Statistical Scientist, Genentech - Marina Sirota, PhD
Assistant Professor at Institute for Computational Health Sciences, UCSF (also MS from Stanford) - Kaustubh Supekar, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine - Rong Xu, PhD
Professor, Department of Quantitative & Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University (also MS from Stanford) - Peggy Zhen Yao, PhD
Research Scientist, Facebook
2009
- Michael Cantor, PhD
Staff Software Engineer, Pacific Biosciences (also MS from Stanford) - Shirley Wu, PhD
Director of Health Product, 23andMe
2008
- Maureen Hillenmeyer, PhD
Founder & CEO, Hexagon Bio - Nikesh Kotecha, PhD
Vice President of Informatics, Parker Institute of Cancer Immunotherapy - Diane Schroeder, PhD
Computational Biologist - Lucinda Page Southworth, PhD
Philanthropist
2007
- Yang Huang, PhD
Chief Information Officer / Chief Technology Officer, Med Data Quest Inc. (also two MS degrees) - Kung-Huang (Kevin) Pan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Samford University - Zach Pincus, PhD
Assistant Professor, Dept of Developmental Biology and Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine - Jing Shi, PhD
Statistics Consultant, Biotech and Pharmaceutical Companies - Andres Tellez, PhD
Business Operations and Strategy, Cedilla Therapeutics - Jessica D. Tenenbaum, PhD
Chief Data Officer, NC Department of Health and Human Services and Assistant Professor, Duke University
2006
- Jiong Ma, PhD
BioIT Consultant, Information Specialist, Rutgers - Brian Naughton, PhD
Founder and Head of Data, Hexagon Bio - Serge Saxonov, PhD
Co-founder and CEO, 10x Genomics - Iwei Yeh, PhD
Associate Professor of Dermatology and Pathology, UCSF
2005
- Neil Abernethy, PhD
Associate Professor, Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington - David L. Buckeridge, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University - Mike Liang, PhD
International Product Manager, Google - Zhen Lin, PhD
Nurse Scientist, Memorial Hermann Health System; Co-founder and CEO, Robot Bacon Corporation - Yueyi (Irene) Liu, PhD
Radiologist, San Jose Medical Center - Shuo Liu, PhD
Senior Informatics Scientist, Pharmix Corp
2003
- Carol Cheng Cain, PhD
Executive Director at The Permanente Federation, KP Care Management Institute - Jeffrey Chang, PhD
Postdoc, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University - Doug Fridsma, PhD
President and CEO of AMIA - Amit Singh, PhD
Entrepreneur and consultant - Josh Stuart, PhD
Professor and Department Chair of Biomolecular Engineering, UC Santa Cruz - Olga Troyanskaya, PhD
Professor, Deputy Director of Genomics, Princeton University
2002
- Amar Das, PhD
Program Director of Integrated Care Research, IBM; Adjunct Associate Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Dartmouth College - Jonathan Dugan, PhD
Traveling - Xiaole Shirley Liu, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Harvard School of Public Health - Joseph Norman, PhD
Hospitalist Physician, Michigan Medicine, University of Michigan - David Paik, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer, Stealth Stage Co. - Soumya Raychaudhuri, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School - Scott Schmidler, PhD
Associate Professor of Statistics and Computer Science, Duke University - George C. Scott, PhD
Medical Director – Clinical Decision Support, SCL Health
2001
- Daniel Berrios, PhD
Computer Scientist, NASA Ames Research Center - Ramon Felciano, PhD
Chief Technology Officer, VP of Research, and Co-Founder, InGenuity Systems Inc.
2000
- Cecil Huang, PhD
Staff Physician, Inova Loudoun Hospital, Leesburg, VA - Diane Oliver, PhD
Medical Informatics Leader, Kaiser Permanente - James Ze Wang, PhD
Professor of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State
1999
- Wanda Pratt, PhD
Professor in Information School and Division of Biomedical & Health Informatics, University of Washington - Smadar Shiffman, PhD
Principal, Eilat Consulting - Maria Tovar, PhD
Computer Graphics Technologist and SW Manager, Apple Computer - Liping Wei, PhD
Professor and Director, Center of Bioinformatics, Peking Univ., Beijing
1998
- Gillian Sanders, PhD
Deputy Director, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy, Professor of Population Health Sciences at Duke
1997
- Keith Campbell, PhD
Director of Informatics Architecture, U.S. Veterans Health Administration - Malcolm Pradhan, PhD
Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder, VP Clinical Systems at Alcidion Corporation - Ida Sim, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Co-Director of Biomedical Informatics, UCSF; Co-Founder, Open mHealth - Rhea Tombropoulos, PhD
Principal Engineer, HeartFlow
1996
- Tod Klingler, PhD
Pursuing his next adventure - Lucila Ohno-Machado, PhD
Chair, UC San Diego Health, Department of Biomedical Informatics - Ramani Pichumani, PhD
Software Architect, Carl Zeiss SBE - Alex Poon, PhD
Co-Founder and General Partner, UP2398; Co-Founder and CEO, Bonfire Media, Inc. - Walter Sujansky, PhD
President, Sujansky & Associates, LLC, San Carlos, CA
1995
- Geoffrey Rutledge, PhD
Chief Medical Officer and Co-Founder, HealthTap
1994
- John Egar, PhD
Physician & Founder, Siuslaw Medical Clinic, Florence, Oregon - Yuval Shahar, PhD
Professor, Head, Medical Informatics Research Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
1992
- Jaap Suermondt, PhD
- Michael Walker, PhD
Statistics Consultant, California
1991
- Brad Farr, PhD
Physician Information Systems Director, Intermountain Health Care Inc. - Edward Herskovits, PhD
Co-Founder and Scientific Advisor, Galileo CDS; Professor, Diagnostic Radiology, University of Maryland - Harold Lehmann, PhD
Professor & Director of Research and Training, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
1990
- Thierry Barsalou, PhD
Independent Consultant - Martin Chavez, PhD
Partner, Goldman Sachs - Eric Horvitz, PhD
Technical Fellow and Director, Microsoft Research Labs and AI - Holly Jimison, PhD
Professor, College of Computer & Information Science, Northeastern University
1989
- Russ Altman, PhD
Professor of Bioengineering, Genetics and Medicine, Stanford University
1988
- Michael Kahn, PhD
Director of Research, Rodeer Systems, Boulder, CO - Mark Musen, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University
1986
- Glenn Rennels, PhD
Chief Technology Officer and senior physician (Anesthesiology), Permanente Medical Group
1985
- Greg Cooper, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh; Director of the Center for Causal Discovery
1975-76
- Edward H. Shortliffe, PhD
Adjunct Professor Of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Biomedical Informatics
- Tomer Altman, PhD
2026
- Yifu Chen, HCP
- 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
- Madhuvanti Sharma, HCP
- Gloria Vergara Neyra, Co-term
Academic Masters
2025
- Matthew Aguirre, Ph.D.
- Susie Avagyan, MS
PhD at DBDS Stanford University - Wenyuan Chen, MS
- Erin Craig, Ph.D.
Tenure track Assistant Professor, Biostatistics, University of Michigan - Rohit Khurana, MS
Medical Scientist Training Program, University of Pennsylvania - Chase Ludwig, MS
Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology, Stanford University - Samson Mataraso, Ph.D.
- Thodsawit Tiyarattanachai, MS
- Kevin Wu, Ph.D.
- Christine Yeh, Ph.D.
MSTP (MD/PhD Candidate), Stanford University - Ashley Lewis, Ph.D.
Postdoc Researcher at Stanford school of medicine
- Eric Sun, Ph.D.
Incoming Assistant Professor at MIT - Kevin Wu, Ph.D.
Founding Researcher at GXL - Manoj Maddali, MS
Medical Director of Informatics and Predictive Analytics at Piedmont Healthcare at Piedmont
2024
- Daisy Ding, Ph.D.
Researcher in AI + Biomedicine at Stanford - Alexander Derry, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, EvolutionaryScale - Tiffany Eulalio, Ph.D.
Postdoc at St.Jude’s Children’s Hospital - Scott Fleming, Ph.D.
Machine Learning Scientist at SmarterDx - Danning Fu, Academic MS
Ph.D student in Department of Computer Science, Stanford - Aditi Goyal, Academic MS
Data Scientist at Natera - Samvel Gyurdzhyan, Academic MS
- Mars Huang, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, Apple - Yusuf Roohani, Ph.D.
Group Lead, Machine Learning at ARC Institute - Rachel Yu, Academic MS
MLE Intern at Adobe - Riya Sinha, Academic MS
CS Ph.D. Student, Stanford - Ying Sun, Academic MS
Data Science Intern at Merck Group - Qianhui Zheng, Academic MS
Bioinformatics Engineer, Guangzhou Laboratory
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 - Yousuf Khan, MS
Completing PhD - 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 - Matthew Schwede, MS
Hematologist at Swedish - Daniel Nicolas Sosa, PhD
Co-Founder at Parsnip
Thesis: Contexts and contradictions: reasoning with science for literature-based drug repurposing
2022
- Rocky Aiken, PhD
Current: Statistician, Mathematica - Margaret Mary Antonio, PhD
- Thomas Asha, MS
Current: Bioinformatics Engineer, Grail - Katelyn Bechler, MS
Current: Senior Bioinformatics Engineer, GRAIL, Inc. - Elizabeth Chin, PhD
- Jeff Choi, MS
Current: Residential Physician-General Surgery Geneticist and Data Scientist, Stanford Health Care - Nicholas Deveau, MS
Current: Head of Data, Vanna Health - Chloe He, MS
Current: Machine Learning Engineer, Stealth Startup - Vivian Ho MS
Current: Vascular Surgery Resident, Stanford Health Care - Ben Huynh, PhD
Current: Epidemiologist, Stanford University - Ioannis Kipouros, PhD
Current: Postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley in Prof. Michelle Chang’s group - Ben Marafino, PhD
Current: Research scientist, DIvision of Research, Kaiser Permanente; Assistant Professor of Health Systems Science, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine - Mahdi Moqri, MS
Current: NLM Postdoctoral Fellow in Aging Research, Stanford University School of Medicine - Dylan Peterson, MS
Current: Urology Residency, Stanford Health Care - Rosie Sowers, MS
2021
- Sheun Aluko, MS
Current: Resident Physician, Bames Jewish Hospital - Gustavo Chavez, PhD
Current: Anesthersia Residency - YoonChung Chey, MS
Current: Consultant, Bain and Company - Jacob Edelson, MS
Current: NCI Fellow, The National Institutes of Health -
Nicole Ferraro, PhDCurrent: Scientific Program Manager, Center for Biosignal Research, UCSF
- Emily Flynn, PhD
Current: Senior Biological Data Scientist, UCSF - Michael Gloudemans, PhD
Current: Bioinformatics Scientist, Guardant Health - Margaret Guo, PhD
Current: Internal Medicine Resident, Stanford University School of Medicine - Boyce Hunter, PhD
Current: Bioinformatics Scientist, Nautilus Biotechnology - Derek Jow, MS
Current: N/A - Daniel Kim, PhD
Current: Internal Medicine Resident, Stanford Health Care - Adam Lavertu, PhD
Current: Bioinformatics Software Engineer, MyOme - Yieng Terry Li, MS
Current: Deep Learning Research Scientist; Machine Learning Researcher,Subtle Medical, Stanford University - Greg McInnes, PhD
Current: Senior Scientist, Empirico - Stephen Pfohl, PhD
Current: Research Scientist, Google - Katherine Shi, MS
Current: Associate, McKinsey and Company - Yosuke Tanigawa, PhD
Current: Postdoctoral associate, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT - Jessica Torres, PhD
Current: Senior Machine Learning Scientist, iRhythm Technologies, Inc. - Guhan Venketeraman, PhD
Current: Machine Learning Researcher II, Seer - Sophia Wang, MD, MS
Current: Assistant Professor, Byers Eye Institute - Alice Yu, PhD
Current: Computational Scientists, Stealth Startup - Yuhao Zhang, PhD
Current: Founding scientist, Samaya AI
2020
- Michael Chavez, MS
Current: Synthetic Biologist, PhD candidate, Stanford University - Julien Hedou, MS
Current: CEO and Founder, Surge - Sehj Kashyap, MS
Current: Product Lead, Clinkk - Albee Ling, PhD
Current: Research Engineer, Med/Quantitative Sciences Unit, Stanford University - Karen Ouyang, MS
Current: Clinical Molecular Geneticist and Data Scientist, Invitae - Anna Shcherbina, PhD
Current: Machine Learning Engineer, Insitro, Inc. - Craig Smail, PhD
Current: Assistant Professor, Pediatric Genomic Medicine Center, Children’s Mercy Hospital - Carlos Jose Suarez, MS
Current: Clinical Assistant Professor, Pathology Clinical, Stanford University - Ashton Teng, MS
Current: Senior Bioinformatics and Data Engineer, Grail - Elizabeth Tran, MS
Current: Research Data Analyst, Machine Learning Scientist at Inflammatrix - Darvin Yi, PhD
Current: Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) - Juan Manuel Zambrano Chaves, MS
Current: BMI/PhD student, Stanford University
2019
- Vibhu Agarwal, PhD
Current: Senior Director, Data Science, Medidata Solutions, Acorn AI - Calderon Diego, PhD
Current: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Washington - Tymor Hamamsy, MS
Current: Co-founder, Fermat’s Library - Lichy Han, PhD
Current: Resident Physician, Stanford Health Care - Maulik Kamdar, PhD
Current: Director of Clinical Informatics, Optum Health - Mia Kanzawa, MS
Current: Internal Medicine Resident, Kaiser Permanente San Francisco - Brianna Kozemzak Mattia, MS
Current: Software Engineer II, Crowdstrike - Haomin Peng, MS
Current: Research Engineer, plusAI - Eric Wei, MS
Current: Bioinformatics Analyst, Mike Snyder’s lab, Stanford University - Michelle Wu, PhD
Current: Computational Biologist, Verily Life Sciences
2018
- Pierre-Louise Cedoz, MS
Current: Machine Learning Engineer at Google - Peyton Greenside, PhD
Current: Postdoc Research Fellow, Schmidt Science Fellows - Winston Haynes, PhD
Current: Lead Data Scientist, Serlmmune Inc - Carson Lam, MS
Current: Lead Machine Learning Engineer, care.coach - Soltan Masood Malekghassemi, MS
Current: N/A - Emily Mallory, PhD
Current: Research Scientist, Invitae - Chloe O’Connell, MS
Current: Data Scientist at Medable, Inc. - Sarah Poole, PhD
Current: Data Scientist for Verily Life Sciences - Alejandro Schuler, PhD
Current: Assistant Professor of Biostatistics; UC Berkeley - Martin Seneviratne, MS
Current: Senior Clinician Scientist, Google - Husham Sharifi, MS
Current: Faculty in Pulmonary Critical Care at Stanford Hospital & Clinics - Archana Shenoy, MS
Current: Bioinformatics Scientist at GRAIL, Inc. - Natalie Telis, PhD
Current: Senior Research Scientist, Helix - Mamie Wang, MS
Current: Bioinformaticianm, Center for Cellular Immunotherapies at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
2017
- Sandeep Ayyar, MS
Current: N/A - Tej Deepak Azad, MS
Current: Resident Physician, Neurosurgery, John Hopkins Medicine - Rachel Goldfeder, PhD
Current: Associate Director, Merck - Rebecca Sawyer Lee, PhD
Current: Senior Technical Professional, KBR, Inc - David Moskowitz, PhD
Current: Principal at 8VC - Rui Shu, MS
Current: PhD student, Computer Science, Stanford - Erika Strandberg, PhD
Current: Senior Program Manager, Microsoft - Emily Tsang, PhD
Current: Manager, Bioinformatics, Guardant Health
2016
- Tej Azad, MS
Current: Resident Physician, Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins Medicine - Becky Xu Hua Fu, MS
Current: Postdoctoral Researcher, UCSF (Luke Gilbert) - Heather Hall, MS
Current: Senior Data Scientist, ConcertAI - Sara Hillenmeyer, PhD
Current: Director of Data Science at Payscale - Haruka Itakura, MD (S.U.N.Y.), MS, PhD
Current: Assistant Professor of Medicine (Oncology), Stanford School of Medicine
Thesis: Multi-scale data integration frameworks for predicting outcomes in cancer - David Odgers, MS
Current: Data Science Engineer Consultant, VIRJ.ai - Bethany Percha, PhD
Current: Assistant Professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine; CTO Precision Health Enterprise, Mount Sinai Health System - Tanya Podchiyska, MS
Current: N/A - Marcos Prunello, MS
Current: PhD student, Austral University - Manoj Sharma, PhD (Univ of Maryland, Baltimore), MS
Current: Director of Biostatiostics, Grail - Rui Shu, MS
Current: Computer Science PhD Student, Stanford University - Vanessa Sochat, PhD
Current: Computer Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - David Stark, MS
Current: Chief Medical Officer, Head of Data & Analytics, Morgan Stanley - Linda Szabo, PhD
Current: Associate Director of Genomi, Mantra Bio - Dana Wyman, MS
Current: Bioinformatics Scientist, Helix - Kun-Hsing Yu, MD (National Taiwan University), PhD
Current: 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 - Tse-jen (Jerome) Ku, MS
Current: N/A - Tiffany Ting Liu, PhD
Current: N/A
Thesis: Integrated Analysis Using Molecular-scale Data to Identify Prognostic Subgroups in Glioblastoma - Vinnie Liu, MD (NYU), MS
Current: Research Scientist and Staff Intensivist, Kaiser Permanente - Kimberly McManus, MS
Current: Presidential Innovation Fellow, White House Presidential Innovation Fellow, Department of Veterans Affairs - 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 - Tim Sweeney, MD, PhD, (Duke), MS (Stanford)
Current: Co-Founder & CEO, Inflammatix
Thesis: Toll-like Receptor (TLR) Signaling and Differential Activation
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 - 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
- Andy Beck, MD (Brown), PhD
Current: Co-founder, President and CEO, PathAI
Thesis: Computational pathology for genomic medicine - Hua Fan-Minogue, MD (Peking Univ), PhD (UAB); MS
Current: - 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 - Alicia Martin, MS (Stanford Genetics)
Current: Instructor in Investigation, Massachusetts General Hospital - Jesse Rodriguez, MS (Stanford), PhD
Current: Software Engineer, Google
Thesis: Accurate methods for ancestry and relatedness inference - Shanshan Tuo, PhD (Stanford Genetics), MS
Current: Data Scientist, xAd, Inc. - Xueheng Zhao, MS
Current: Research Associate, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
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
- Robert Arrigo, BS (Illinois State University), MS
Current: Anesthesiologist, Stanford Health Carte - 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 - Peter Kang, BMED (Seoul National University); MS
Current: Vice President of Translational Research, Tempus Labs - 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 - Daniel Li, BS (Johns Hopkins); MS
Current: Senior Platform Engineer, Crunchbase - David Maslove, MD (University of Toronto) BSC University of Guelph; MS
Current: Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Critical Care Medicine, Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario) - 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 - Jon Palma, MD (University of Florida), BSC (Davidson College); MS
Current: Neonatologist, Pediatrix Medical Group - Steve Pan, MD (University of Pittsburgh), BSc (Columbia University); MS
Current: Associate Professor of Medicine, New York Medical College - 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 - Rob Tirrell, BS (Cornell University); MS
Deceased 2012. - Brendan Todaro, BSC (Emory); MS
Current: Senior Software Engineer, Tinder Inc. - 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
- Sarim Baig, BS (Lahore, Pakistan); MS
Current: Bioinformatics and Computer Science instructor in Pakistan. - Michael Cantor, BA (Wesleyan University); MS, PhD
Current: Staff Software Engineer, Pacific Biosciences
Thesis: Rational engineering in synthetic biology : a genetic pulse generator - Nadeem Riaz, BS (Rutgers University); MD (2003); MS
Current: Assistant Attending, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center - Shirley Wu, ScB (Brown University); PhD
Current: Director of Health Prodcut, 23andMe
Thesis: Characterization of protein function using automated computational methods
2008
- Genaro Hernandez, BS (San Diego State University); MS
Current: Medical Laboratory Technician, Adventist Health - Maureen Hillenmeyer, BS (Notre Dame); PhD
Current: Founder & CEO, Hexagon Bio
Thesis: Identifying relationships between genes and small molecules, from yeast to humans - Runa Islam, BA, MS (Harvard); MS
Current: Lead Business Strategist, Well-Being Transformation, CVS Health - 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 - Nadeem Riaz, MS/MD, BS (Rutgers University) MS
Current: Resident, Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY, NY - 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
- Aneel Advani, MD, MPH (Johns Hopkins); MS
Current: Chairman & CEO, Global Virtual Group - Michael Cantor, BA (Wesleyan Univ); MS
Current: Computer Scientist, Joint Genome Institute - Kurt Huang, AB (Harvard); MD (2002), MS
Current: CEO and Co-founder, Mozart Medical - 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 - John Park, AB (Harvard); MS
Current: Researcher in the Computer Science Dept at the University of Maryland, College Park - 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 - Roni Zeiger BS (UC Los Angeles); MD (Stanford); Board Certified Internist; MS
Current: Head of Health Strategy, Facebook
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 - Nhan Do BS (Baylor University); MD (George Washington University); MS
Current: Director, Informatics Center, Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine - 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 - Dan Zisook BA (UC Berkeley); MD (Loyola University); MPH (San Diego State University); MS
Current: 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
- 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 - Todd Ferris MD (University of Michigan); MS
Current: Chief Technology Officer, Information Resources & Technology, Stanford University School of Medicine - Doug Fridsma BS, MD (University of Michigan) PhD
Current: President and CEO of AMIA
Thesis: Organizational simulation of medical work : an information-processing approach - Greg Garrison MD (University of Minnesota); MS Board Certified, American Board of Family Practice
Current: Senior Associate Consultant, Mayo Clinic, Department of Family Medicine and Laboratory of Medical Informatics - Michelle Green BS (Purdue), PhD (UCSF); MS
Current: Executive Director of Consulting Services, Quantitative Solutions - 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
- Phillip Cheng MD (Yale); MS ; Board Certified, Radiology
Current: Associate Professor of Clinical Radiology, University of Southern California - 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 - Justin Graham MD (UCSF) MS ; Board Certified Infectious Disease Specialist
Current: Principal, JVG Healthcare - 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
- Elmer Bernstam MD(Univ Michigan); MSE (Univ Michigan;) MS ; Board Certified, American Board of Internal Medicine
Current: Professor and Associate Dean for Research, School of Biomedical Informatics, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston - 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 - John Michon MD (University of Illinois); MS Diplomate, American board of Ophthalmology
Current: Consultant in Data Science, Genentech
2000
- Elizabeth Burnside MD (Tufts); MPH (Tufts); MS – Board Certified, Radiology
Current: Senior Associate Dean, School of Medicine and Public Health, and Deputy Director of Institute of Clinical Translational Science, University of Wisconsin - 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 - John Nguyen BS (UC Davis); MS , MD (Stanford)
Current: - 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 - Daniel Rubin, MD (Stanford); MS Board Certified Radiology
Current: Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Radiology, and Medicine at Stanford School of Medicine - John Shon AB (Harvard); MD (Stanford); MS Board Certified, American Board of Internal Medicine
Current: Chief Technology Officer, Serlmmune Inc. - Howard Strasberg MD (University of Western Ontario); MS
Current: Vice-President of Medical Informatics at Wolters Kluwer Health – Clinical Solutions - 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
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
- Richard Chen BS/MS (Stanford); MS , MD (2007)
Current: Chief Scientific Officer, Personalis, and Attending Physician, Stanford Dermatology - 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 - Chris Flowers BA (Stanford); MD/MS
Current: Chair, Professor, Department of Lymphoma/Myeloma, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas - 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
- William Detmer MD (UCSF); MS
Current: President, Unbound Medicine Inc., Charlottesville - 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
Current: Vice President and Chief Science Officer, IBM Watson Health
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
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 - Adam Galper BA (Yale); MS
Current: Advisor/Investor for Startups - 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 - Kevin Johnson MD (Johns Hopkins); MS
Current: Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor and Chair, Biomedical Informatics, Professor of Pediatrics, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Health I.T. Vanderbilt University Medical Center - David Millis MD (Howard); MS
Current: Psychiatrist, Center for Psychiatric & Addiction Treatment in Manassas, Virginia - Ricardo Peverini MD (Loma Linda); MS
Current: Vice Dean for Clinical Faculty, Loma Linda University School of Medicine - 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
- 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
- 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 - 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 - Leslie Lenert MD (UCLA); MS
Current: Assistant Provost for Data Science and Informatics at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Chief Research Information Officer, Professor of Internal Medicine, and SMART State Chair in Healthcare Quality at MUSC. - Richard Lin MD and MPH (UCSF); MS
Current: Staff Physician, Northport VA Hospital; Professor, Stony Brook University - Jeanette Polaschek BSN and MS (Boston University); MS
Current: Hospital Management Consultant - Eric Sherman MD (NYU); MS
Current: Partner, Concorde Medical Group, PLLC; Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, NYU School of Medicine - Michael Shwe BS (Stanford); MS
Current: Product Manager, Google; Advisory Board Member, Upwork
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 - Curt Langlotz AB, MS (Stanford); MD/PhD
Current: Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Informatics; Director, Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging; Associate Chair for Information Systems, Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine; and Medical Informatics Director, Stanford Health Care
Thesis: A Decision-theoretic approach to heuristic planning - John Reed BS, MBA (University of Michigan); MS
Current: President, John Reed Consulting - George Thomsen MD (Loma Linda); MS
Current: Private practice Pulmonary Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
1988
- Homer Chin MD (Dartmouth); MS
Current: Physician, Kaiser Permanente Northwest; Affiliate Professor, Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, OHSU; Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics; Board Member at OCHIN, Inc.; Board Member, Tucker Maxon School; Associate at OpenNotes - Joan Differding BA (Swarthmore); MS
Current: Technical Manager, Director of the Multi-Mission Operations Center, NASA Ames Research Center - Michael Goldbaum MD (Tulane); MS
Current: Professor of Ophthalmology, Co-director Retina and Vitreous Service, University of California at San Diego. - 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 - Don Rucker MD (University of Pennsylvania); MBA(1987), MS
Current: National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) – US Dept of HHS Office of the Secretary
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. - 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.
2024
- Daisy Ding, Ph.D.
Researcher in AI + Biomedicine at Stanford - Alexander Derry, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, EvolutionaryScale - Tiffany Eulalio, Ph.D.
Postdoc at St.Jude’s Children’s Hospital - Scott Fleming, Ph.D.
Machine Learning Scientist at SmarterDx - Danning Fu, Academic MS
Ph.D student in Department of Computer Science, Stanford - Aditi Goyal, Academic MS
Data Scientist at Natera - Samvel Gyurdzhyan, Academic MS
- Mars Huang, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, Apple - Yusuf Roohani, Ph.D.
Group Lead, Machine Learning at ARC Institute - Rachel Yu, Academic MS
MLE Intern at Adobe - Riya Sinha, Academic MS
CS Ph.D. Student, Stanford - Ying Sun, Academic MS
Data Science Intern at Merck Group - Qianhui Zheng, Academic MS
Bioinformatics Engineer, Guangzhou Laboratory
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 - Yousuf Khan, MS
Completing PhD - 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 - Matthew Schwede, MS
Hematologist at Swedish - Daniel Nicolas Sosa, PhD
Co-Founder at Parsnip
Thesis: Contexts and contradictions: reasoning with science for literature-based drug repurposing
2022
- Rocky Aiken, PhD
Current: Statistician, Mathematica - Margaret Mary Antonio, PhD
- Thomas Asha, MS
Current: Bioinformatics Engineer, Grail - Katelyn Bechler, MS
Current: Senior Bioinformatics Engineer, GRAIL, Inc. - Elizabeth Chin, PhD
- Jeff Choi, MS
Current: Residential Physician-General Surgery Geneticist and Data Scientist, Stanford Health Care - Nicholas Deveau, MS
Current: Head of Data, Vanna Health - Chloe He, MS
Current: Machine Learning Engineer, Stealth Startup - Vivian Ho MS
Current: Vascular Surgery Resident, Stanford Health Care - Ben Huynh, PhD
Current: Epidemiologist, Stanford University - Ioannis Kipouros, PhD
Current: Postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley in Prof. Michelle Chang’s group - Ben Marafino, PhD
Current: Research scientist, DIvision of Research, Kaiser Permanente; Assistant Professor of Health Systems Science, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine - Mahdi Moqri, MS
Current: NLM Postdoctoral Fellow in Aging Research, Stanford University School of Medicine - Dylan Peterson, MS
Current: Urology Residency, Stanford Health Care - Rosie Sowers, MS
2021
- Sheun Aluko, MS
Current: Resident Physician, Bames Jewish Hospital - Gustavo Chavez, PhD
Current: Anesthersia Residency - YoonChung Chey, MS
Current: Consultant, Bain and Company - Jacob Edelson, MS
Current: NCI Fellow, The National Institutes of Health -
Nicole Ferraro, PhDCurrent: Scientific Program Manager, Center for Biosignal Research, UCSF
- Emily Flynn, PhD
Current: Senior Biological Data Scientist, UCSF - Michael Gloudemans, PhD
Current: Bioinformatics Scientist, Guardant Health - Margaret Guo, PhD
Current: Internal Medicine Resident, Stanford University School of Medicine - Boyce Hunter, PhD
Current: Bioinformatics Scientist, Nautilus Biotechnology - Derek Jow, MS
Current: N/A - Daniel Kim, PhD
Current: Internal Medicine Resident, Stanford Health Care - Adam Lavertu, PhD
Current: Bioinformatics Software Engineer, MyOme - Yieng Terry Li, MS
Current: Deep Learning Research Scientist; Machine Learning Researcher,Subtle Medical, Stanford University - Greg McInnes, PhD
Current: Senior Scientist, Empirico - Stephen Pfohl, PhD
Current: Research Scientist, Google - Katherine Shi, MS
Current: Associate, McKinsey and Company - Yosuke Tanigawa, PhD
Current: Postdoctoral associate, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT - Jessica Torres, PhD
Current: Senior Machine Learning Scientist, iRhythm Technologies, Inc. - Guhan Venketeraman, PhD
Current: Machine Learning Researcher II, Seer - Sophia Wang, MD, MS
Current: Assistant Professor, Byers Eye Institute - Alice Yu, PhD
Current: Computational Scientists, Stealth Startup - Yuhao Zhang, PhD
Current: Founding scientist, Samaya AI
2020
- Michael Chavez, MS
Current: Synthetic Biologist, PhD candidate, Stanford University - Julien Hedou, MS
Current: CEO and Founder, Surge - Sehj Kashyap, MS
Current: Product Lead, Clinkk - Albee Ling, PhD
Current: Research Engineer, Med/Quantitative Sciences Unit, Stanford University - Karen Ouyang, MS
Current: Clinical Molecular Geneticist and Data Scientist, Invitae - Anna Shcherbina, PhD
Current: Machine Learning Engineer, Insitro, Inc. - Craig Smail, PhD
Current: Assistant Professor, Pediatric Genomic Medicine Center, Children’s Mercy Hospital - Carlos Jose Suarez, MS
Current: Clinical Assistant Professor, Pathology Clinical, Stanford University - Ashton Teng, MS
Current: Senior Bioinformatics and Data Engineer, Grail - Elizabeth Tran, MS
Current: Research Data Analyst, Machine Learning Scientist at Inflammatrix - Darvin Yi, PhD
Current: Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) - Juan Manuel Zambrano Chaves, MS
Current: BMI/PhD student, Stanford University
2019
- Vibhu Agarwal, PhD
Current: Senior Director, Data Science, Medidata Solutions, Acorn AI - Calderon Diego, PhD
Current: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Washington - Tymor Hamamsy, MS
Current: Co-founder, Fermat’s Library - Lichy Han, PhD
Current: Resident Physician, Stanford Health Care - Maulik Kamdar, PhD
Current: Director of Clinical Informatics, Optum Health - Mia Kanzawa, MS
Current: Internal Medicine Resident, Kaiser Permanente San Francisco - Brianna Kozemzak Mattia, MS
Current: Software Engineer II, Crowdstrike - Haomin Peng, MS
Current: Research Engineer, plusAI - Eric Wei, MS
Current: Bioinformatics Analyst, Mike Snyder’s lab, Stanford University - Michelle Wu, PhD
Current: Computational Biologist, Verily Life Sciences
2018
- Pierre-Louise Cedoz, MS
Current: Machine Learning Engineer at Google - Peyton Greenside, PhD
Current: Postdoc Research Fellow, Schmidt Science Fellows - Winston Haynes, PhD
Current: Lead Data Scientist, Serlmmune Inc - Carson Lam, MS
Current: Lead Machine Learning Engineer, care.coach - Soltan Masood Malekghassemi, MS
Current: N/A - Emily Mallory, PhD
Current: Research Scientist, Invitae - Chloe O’Connell, MS
Current: Data Scientist at Medable, Inc. - Sarah Poole, PhD
Current: Data Scientist for Verily Life Sciences - Alejandro Schuler, PhD
Current: Assistant Professor of Biostatistics; UC Berkeley - Martin Seneviratne, MS
Current: Senior Clinician Scientist, Google - Husham Sharifi, MS
Current: Faculty in Pulmonary Critical Care at Stanford Hospital & Clinics - Archana Shenoy, MS
Current: Bioinformatics Scientist at GRAIL, Inc. - Natalie Telis, PhD
Current: Senior Research Scientist, Helix - Mamie Wang, MS
Current: Bioinformaticianm, Center for Cellular Immunotherapies at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
2017
- Sandeep Ayyar, MS
Current: N/A - Tej Deepak Azad, MS
Current: Resident Physician, Neurosurgery, John Hopkins Medicine - Rachel Goldfeder, PhD
Current: Associate Director, Merck - Rebecca Sawyer Lee, PhD
Current: Senior Technical Professional, KBR, Inc - David Moskowitz, PhD
Current: Principal at 8VC - Rui Shu, MS
Current: PhD student, Computer Science, Stanford - Erika Strandberg, PhD
Current: Senior Program Manager, Microsoft - Emily Tsang, PhD
Current: Manager, Bioinformatics, Guardant Health
2016
- Tej Azad, MS
Current: Resident Physician, Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins Medicine - Becky Xu Hua Fu, MS
Current: Postdoctoral Researcher, UCSF (Luke Gilbert) - Heather Hall, MS
Current: Senior Data Scientist, ConcertAI - Sara Hillenmeyer, PhD
Current: Director of Data Science at Payscale - Haruka Itakura, MD (S.U.N.Y.), MS, PhD
Current: Assistant Professor of Medicine (Oncology), Stanford School of Medicine
Thesis: Multi-scale data integration frameworks for predicting outcomes in cancer - David Odgers, MS
Current: Data Science Engineer Consultant, VIRJ.ai - Bethany Percha, PhD
Current: Assistant Professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine; CTO Precision Health Enterprise, Mount Sinai Health System - Tanya Podchiyska, MS
Current: N/A - Marcos Prunello, MS
Current: PhD student, Austral University - Manoj Sharma, PhD (Univ of Maryland, Baltimore), MS
Current: Director of Biostatiostics, Grail - Rui Shu, MS
Current: Computer Science PhD Student, Stanford University - Vanessa Sochat, PhD
Current: Computer Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - David Stark, MS
Current: Chief Medical Officer, Head of Data & Analytics, Morgan Stanley - Linda Szabo, PhD
Current: Associate Director of Genomi, Mantra Bio - Dana Wyman, MS
Current: Bioinformatics Scientist, Helix - Kun-Hsing Yu, MD (National Taiwan University), PhD
Current: 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 - Tse-jen (Jerome) Ku, MS
Current: N/A - Tiffany Ting Liu, PhD
Current: N/A
Thesis: Integrated Analysis Using Molecular-scale Data to Identify Prognostic Subgroups in Glioblastoma - Vinnie Liu, MD (NYU), MS
Current: Research Scientist and Staff Intensivist, Kaiser Permanente - Kimberly McManus, MS
Current: Presidential Innovation Fellow, White House Presidential Innovation Fellow, Department of Veterans Affairs - 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 - Tim Sweeney, MD, PhD, (Duke), MS (Stanford)
Current: Co-Founder & CEO, Inflammatix
Thesis: Toll-like Receptor (TLR) Signaling and Differential Activation
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 - 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
- Andy Beck, MD (Brown), PhD
Current: Co-founder, President and CEO, PathAI
Thesis: Computational pathology for genomic medicine - Hua Fan-Minogue, MD (Peking Univ), PhD (UAB); MS
Current: - 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 - Alicia Martin, MS (Stanford Genetics)
Current: Instructor in Investigation, Massachusetts General Hospital - Jesse Rodriguez, MS (Stanford), PhD
Current: Software Engineer, Google
Thesis: Accurate methods for ancestry and relatedness inference - Shanshan Tuo, PhD (Stanford Genetics), MS
Current: Data Scientist, xAd, Inc. - Xueheng Zhao, MS
Current: Research Associate, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
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
- Robert Arrigo, BS (Illinois State University), MS
Current: Anesthesiologist, Stanford Health Carte - 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 - Peter Kang, BMED (Seoul National University); MS
Current: Vice President of Translational Research, Tempus Labs - 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 - Daniel Li, BS (Johns Hopkins); MS
Current: Senior Platform Engineer, Crunchbase - David Maslove, MD (University of Toronto) BSC University of Guelph; MS
Current: Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Critical Care Medicine, Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario) - 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 - Jon Palma, MD (University of Florida), BSC (Davidson College); MS
Current: Neonatologist, Pediatrix Medical Group - Steve Pan, MD (University of Pittsburgh), BSc (Columbia University); MS
Current: Associate Professor of Medicine, New York Medical College - 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 - Rob Tirrell, BS (Cornell University); MS
Deceased 2012. - Brendan Todaro, BSC (Emory); MS
Current: Senior Software Engineer, Tinder Inc. - 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
- Sarim Baig, BS (Lahore, Pakistan); MS
Current: Bioinformatics and Computer Science instructor in Pakistan. - Michael Cantor, BA (Wesleyan University); MS, PhD
Current: Staff Software Engineer, Pacific Biosciences
Thesis: Rational engineering in synthetic biology : a genetic pulse generator - Nadeem Riaz, BS (Rutgers University); MD (2003); MS
Current: Assistant Attending, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center - Shirley Wu, ScB (Brown University); PhD
Current: Director of Health Prodcut, 23andMe
Thesis: Characterization of protein function using automated computational methods
2008
- Genaro Hernandez, BS (San Diego State University); MS
Current: Medical Laboratory Technician, Adventist Health - Maureen Hillenmeyer, BS (Notre Dame); PhD
Current: Founder & CEO, Hexagon Bio
Thesis: Identifying relationships between genes and small molecules, from yeast to humans - Runa Islam, BA, MS (Harvard); MS
Current: Lead Business Strategist, Well-Being Transformation, CVS Health - 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 - Nadeem Riaz, MS/MD, BS (Rutgers University) MS
Current: Resident, Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY, NY - 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
- Aneel Advani, MD, MPH (Johns Hopkins); MS
Current: Chairman & CEO, Global Virtual Group - Michael Cantor, BA (Wesleyan Univ); MS
Current: Computer Scientist, Joint Genome Institute - Kurt Huang, AB (Harvard); MD (2002), MS
Current: CEO and Co-founder, Mozart Medical - 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 - John Park, AB (Harvard); MS
Current: Researcher in the Computer Science Dept at the University of Maryland, College Park - 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 - Roni Zeiger BS (UC Los Angeles); MD (Stanford); Board Certified Internist; MS
Current: Head of Health Strategy, Facebook
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 - Nhan Do BS (Baylor University); MD (George Washington University); MS
Current: Director, Informatics Center, Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine - 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 - Dan Zisook BA (UC Berkeley); MD (Loyola University); MPH (San Diego State University); MS
Current: 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
- 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 - Todd Ferris MD (University of Michigan); MS
Current: Chief Technology Officer, Information Resources & Technology, Stanford University School of Medicine - Doug Fridsma BS, MD (University of Michigan) PhD
Current: President and CEO of AMIA
Thesis: Organizational simulation of medical work : an information-processing approach - Greg Garrison MD (University of Minnesota); MS Board Certified, American Board of Family Practice
Current: Senior Associate Consultant, Mayo Clinic, Department of Family Medicine and Laboratory of Medical Informatics - Michelle Green BS (Purdue), PhD (UCSF); MS
Current: Executive Director of Consulting Services, Quantitative Solutions - 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
- Phillip Cheng MD (Yale); MS ; Board Certified, Radiology
Current: Associate Professor of Clinical Radiology, University of Southern California - 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 - Justin Graham MD (UCSF) MS ; Board Certified Infectious Disease Specialist
Current: Principal, JVG Healthcare - 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
- Elmer Bernstam MD(Univ Michigan); MSE (Univ Michigan;) MS ; Board Certified, American Board of Internal Medicine
Current: Professor and Associate Dean for Research, School of Biomedical Informatics, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston - 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 - John Michon MD (University of Illinois); MS Diplomate, American board of Ophthalmology
Current: Consultant in Data Science, Genentech
2000
- Elizabeth Burnside MD (Tufts); MPH (Tufts); MS – Board Certified, Radiology
Current: Senior Associate Dean, School of Medicine and Public Health, and Deputy Director of Institute of Clinical Translational Science, University of Wisconsin - 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 - John Nguyen BS (UC Davis); MS , MD (Stanford)
Current: - 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 - Daniel Rubin, MD (Stanford); MS Board Certified Radiology
Current: Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Radiology, and Medicine at Stanford School of Medicine - John Shon AB (Harvard); MD (Stanford); MS Board Certified, American Board of Internal Medicine
Current: Chief Technology Officer, Serlmmune Inc. - Howard Strasberg MD (University of Western Ontario); MS
Current: Vice-President of Medical Informatics at Wolters Kluwer Health – Clinical Solutions - 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
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
- Richard Chen BS/MS (Stanford); MS , MD (2007)
Current: Chief Scientific Officer, Personalis, and Attending Physician, Stanford Dermatology - 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 - Chris Flowers BA (Stanford); MD/MS
Current: Chair, Professor, Department of Lymphoma/Myeloma, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas - 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
- William Detmer MD (UCSF); MS
Current: President, Unbound Medicine Inc., Charlottesville - 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
Current: Vice President and Chief Science Officer, IBM Watson Health
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
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 - Adam Galper BA (Yale); MS
Current: Advisor/Investor for Startups - 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 - Kevin Johnson MD (Johns Hopkins); MS
Current: Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor and Chair, Biomedical Informatics, Professor of Pediatrics, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Health I.T. Vanderbilt University Medical Center - David Millis MD (Howard); MS
Current: Psychiatrist, Center for Psychiatric & Addiction Treatment in Manassas, Virginia - Ricardo Peverini MD (Loma Linda); MS
Current: Vice Dean for Clinical Faculty, Loma Linda University School of Medicine - 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
- 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
- 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 - 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 - Leslie Lenert MD (UCLA); MS
Current: Assistant Provost for Data Science and Informatics at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Chief Research Information Officer, Professor of Internal Medicine, and SMART State Chair in Healthcare Quality at MUSC. - Richard Lin MD and MPH (UCSF); MS
Current: Staff Physician, Northport VA Hospital; Professor, Stony Brook University - Jeanette Polaschek BSN and MS (Boston University); MS
Current: Hospital Management Consultant - Eric Sherman MD (NYU); MS
Current: Partner, Concorde Medical Group, PLLC; Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, NYU School of Medicine - Michael Shwe BS (Stanford); MS
Current: Product Manager, Google; Advisory Board Member, Upwork
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 - Curt Langlotz AB, MS (Stanford); MD/PhD
Current: Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Informatics; Director, Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging; Associate Chair for Information Systems, Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine; and Medical Informatics Director, Stanford Health Care
Thesis: A Decision-theoretic approach to heuristic planning - John Reed BS, MBA (University of Michigan); MS
Current: President, John Reed Consulting - George Thomsen MD (Loma Linda); MS
Current: Private practice Pulmonary Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
1988
- Homer Chin MD (Dartmouth); MS
Current: Physician, Kaiser Permanente Northwest; Affiliate Professor, Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, OHSU; Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics; Board Member at OCHIN, Inc.; Board Member, Tucker Maxon School; Associate at OpenNotes - Joan Differding BA (Swarthmore); MS
Current: Technical Manager, Director of the Multi-Mission Operations Center, NASA Ames Research Center - Michael Goldbaum MD (Tulane); MS
Current: Professor of Ophthalmology, Co-director Retina and Vitreous Service, University of California at San Diego. - 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 - Don Rucker MD (University of Pennsylvania); MBA(1987), MS
Current: National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) – US Dept of HHS Office of the Secretary
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. - 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.
2026
- Josiah Aklilu, PhD
Google DeepMind Research Engineer
- Kristy Carpenter, PhD
- Yifu Chen, HCP
- Ben Ehlert, PhD
Machine Learning Engineer at Lore Health - 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 - Madhuvanti Sharma, HCP
- Gloria Vergara Neyra, Co-term
- Ziyi Wang, MS
Machine Learning Engineer at Pony.ai
- Yifu Chen, HCP
2024
- Daisy Ding, Ph.D.
Researcher in AI + Biomedicine at Stanford - Alexander Derry, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, EvolutionaryScale - Tiffany Eulalio, Ph.D.
Postdoc at St.Jude’s Children’s Hospital - Scott Fleming, Ph.D.
Machine Learning Scientist at SmarterDx - Danning Fu, Academic MS
Ph.D student in Department of Computer Science, Stanford - Aditi Goyal, Academic MS
Data Scientist at Natera - Samvel Gyurdzhyan, Academic MS
- Mars Huang, Ph.D.
Research Scientist, Apple - Yusuf Roohani, Ph.D.
Group Lead, Machine Learning at ARC Institute - Rachel Yu, Academic MS
MLE Intern at Adobe - Riya Sinha, Academic MS
CS Ph.D. Student, Stanford - Ying Sun, Academic MS
Data Science Intern at Merck Group - Qianhui Zheng, Academic MS
Bioinformatics Engineer, Guangzhou Laboratory
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 - Yousuf Khan, MS
Completing PhD - 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 - Matthew Schwede, MS
Hematologist at Swedish - Daniel Nicolas Sosa, PhD
Co-Founder at Parsnip
Thesis: Contexts and contradictions: reasoning with science for literature-based drug repurposing
2022
- Rocky Aiken, PhD
Current: Statistician, Mathematica - Margaret Mary Antonio, PhD
- Thomas Asha, MS
Current: Bioinformatics Engineer, Grail - Katelyn Bechler, MS
Current: Senior Bioinformatics Engineer, GRAIL, Inc. - Elizabeth Chin, PhD
- Jeff Choi, MS
Current: Residential Physician-General Surgery Geneticist and Data Scientist, Stanford Health Care - Nicholas Deveau, MS
Current: Head of Data, Vanna Health - Chloe He, MS
Current: Machine Learning Engineer, Stealth Startup - Vivian Ho MS
Current: Vascular Surgery Resident, Stanford Health Care - Ben Huynh, PhD
Current: Epidemiologist, Stanford University - Ioannis Kipouros, PhD
Current: Postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley in Prof. Michelle Chang’s group - Ben Marafino, PhD
Current: Research scientist, DIvision of Research, Kaiser Permanente; Assistant Professor of Health Systems Science, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine - Mahdi Moqri, MS
Current: NLM Postdoctoral Fellow in Aging Research, Stanford University School of Medicine - Dylan Peterson, MS
Current: Urology Residency, Stanford Health Care - Rosie Sowers, MS
2021
- Sheun Aluko, MS
Current: Resident Physician, Bames Jewish Hospital - Gustavo Chavez, PhD
Current: Anesthersia Residency - YoonChung Chey, MS
Current: Consultant, Bain and Company - Jacob Edelson, MS
Current: NCI Fellow, The National Institutes of Health -
Nicole Ferraro, PhDCurrent: Scientific Program Manager, Center for Biosignal Research, UCSF
- Emily Flynn, PhD
Current: Senior Biological Data Scientist, UCSF - Michael Gloudemans, PhD
Current: Bioinformatics Scientist, Guardant Health - Margaret Guo, PhD
Current: Internal Medicine Resident, Stanford University School of Medicine - Boyce Hunter, PhD
Current: Bioinformatics Scientist, Nautilus Biotechnology - Derek Jow, MS
Current: N/A - Daniel Kim, PhD
Current: Internal Medicine Resident, Stanford Health Care - Adam Lavertu, PhD
Current: Bioinformatics Software Engineer, MyOme - Yieng Terry Li, MS
Current: Deep Learning Research Scientist; Machine Learning Researcher,Subtle Medical, Stanford University - Greg McInnes, PhD
Current: Senior Scientist, Empirico - Stephen Pfohl, PhD
Current: Research Scientist, Google - Katherine Shi, MS
Current: Associate, McKinsey and Company - Yosuke Tanigawa, PhD
Current: Postdoctoral associate, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT - Jessica Torres, PhD
Current: Senior Machine Learning Scientist, iRhythm Technologies, Inc. - Guhan Venketeraman, PhD
Current: Machine Learning Researcher II, Seer - Sophia Wang, MD, MS
Current: Assistant Professor, Byers Eye Institute - Alice Yu, PhD
Current: Computational Scientists, Stealth Startup - Yuhao Zhang, PhD
Current: Founding scientist, Samaya AI
2020
- Michael Chavez, MS
Current: Synthetic Biologist, PhD candidate, Stanford University - Julien Hedou, MS
Current: CEO and Founder, Surge - Sehj Kashyap, MS
Current: Product Lead, Clinkk - Albee Ling, PhD
Current: Research Engineer, Med/Quantitative Sciences Unit, Stanford University - Karen Ouyang, MS
Current: Clinical Molecular Geneticist and Data Scientist, Invitae - Anna Shcherbina, PhD
Current: Machine Learning Engineer, Insitro, Inc. - Craig Smail, PhD
Current: Assistant Professor, Pediatric Genomic Medicine Center, Children’s Mercy Hospital - Carlos Jose Suarez, MS
Current: Clinical Assistant Professor, Pathology Clinical, Stanford University - Ashton Teng, MS
Current: Senior Bioinformatics and Data Engineer, Grail - Elizabeth Tran, MS
Current: Research Data Analyst, Machine Learning Scientist at Inflammatrix - Darvin Yi, PhD
Current: Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) - Juan Manuel Zambrano Chaves, MS
Current: BMI/PhD student, Stanford University
2019
- Vibhu Agarwal, PhD
Current: Senior Director, Data Science, Medidata Solutions, Acorn AI - Calderon Diego, PhD
Current: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Washington - Tymor Hamamsy, MS
Current: Co-founder, Fermat’s Library - Lichy Han, PhD
Current: Resident Physician, Stanford Health Care - Maulik Kamdar, PhD
Current: Director of Clinical Informatics, Optum Health - Mia Kanzawa, MS
Current: Internal Medicine Resident, Kaiser Permanente San Francisco - Brianna Kozemzak Mattia, MS
Current: Software Engineer II, Crowdstrike - Haomin Peng, MS
Current: Research Engineer, plusAI - Eric Wei, MS
Current: Bioinformatics Analyst, Mike Snyder’s lab, Stanford University - Michelle Wu, PhD
Current: Computational Biologist, Verily Life Sciences
2018
- Pierre-Louise Cedoz, MS
Current: Machine Learning Engineer at Google - Peyton Greenside, PhD
Current: Postdoc Research Fellow, Schmidt Science Fellows - Winston Haynes, PhD
Current: Lead Data Scientist, Serlmmune Inc - Carson Lam, MS
Current: Lead Machine Learning Engineer, care.coach - Soltan Masood Malekghassemi, MS
Current: N/A - Emily Mallory, PhD
Current: Research Scientist, Invitae - Chloe O’Connell, MS
Current: Data Scientist at Medable, Inc. - Sarah Poole, PhD
Current: Data Scientist for Verily Life Sciences - Alejandro Schuler, PhD
Current: Assistant Professor of Biostatistics; UC Berkeley - Martin Seneviratne, MS
Current: Senior Clinician Scientist, Google - Husham Sharifi, MS
Current: Faculty in Pulmonary Critical Care at Stanford Hospital & Clinics - Archana Shenoy, MS
Current: Bioinformatics Scientist at GRAIL, Inc. - Natalie Telis, PhD
Current: Senior Research Scientist, Helix - Mamie Wang, MS
Current: Bioinformaticianm, Center for Cellular Immunotherapies at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
2017
- Sandeep Ayyar, MS
Current: N/A - Tej Deepak Azad, MS
Current: Resident Physician, Neurosurgery, John Hopkins Medicine - Rachel Goldfeder, PhD
Current: Associate Director, Merck - Rebecca Sawyer Lee, PhD
Current: Senior Technical Professional, KBR, Inc - David Moskowitz, PhD
Current: Principal at 8VC - Rui Shu, MS
Current: PhD student, Computer Science, Stanford - Erika Strandberg, PhD
Current: Senior Program Manager, Microsoft - Emily Tsang, PhD
Current: Manager, Bioinformatics, Guardant Health
2016
- Tej Azad, MS
Current: Resident Physician, Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins Medicine - Becky Xu Hua Fu, MS
Current: Postdoctoral Researcher, UCSF (Luke Gilbert) - Heather Hall, MS
Current: Senior Data Scientist, ConcertAI - Sara Hillenmeyer, PhD
Current: Director of Data Science at Payscale - Haruka Itakura, MD (S.U.N.Y.), MS, PhD
Current: Assistant Professor of Medicine (Oncology), Stanford School of Medicine
Thesis: Multi-scale data integration frameworks for predicting outcomes in cancer - David Odgers, MS
Current: Data Science Engineer Consultant, VIRJ.ai - Bethany Percha, PhD
Current: Assistant Professor at Mount Sinai School of Medicine; CTO Precision Health Enterprise, Mount Sinai Health System - Tanya Podchiyska, MS
Current: N/A - Marcos Prunello, MS
Current: PhD student, Austral University - Manoj Sharma, PhD (Univ of Maryland, Baltimore), MS
Current: Director of Biostatiostics, Grail - Rui Shu, MS
Current: Computer Science PhD Student, Stanford University - Vanessa Sochat, PhD
Current: Computer Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - David Stark, MS
Current: Chief Medical Officer, Head of Data & Analytics, Morgan Stanley - Linda Szabo, PhD
Current: Associate Director of Genomi, Mantra Bio - Dana Wyman, MS
Current: Bioinformatics Scientist, Helix - Kun-Hsing Yu, MD (National Taiwan University), PhD
Current: 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 - Tse-jen (Jerome) Ku, MS
Current: N/A - Tiffany Ting Liu, PhD
Current: N/A
Thesis: Integrated Analysis Using Molecular-scale Data to Identify Prognostic Subgroups in Glioblastoma - Vinnie Liu, MD (NYU), MS
Current: Research Scientist and Staff Intensivist, Kaiser Permanente - Kimberly McManus, MS
Current: Presidential Innovation Fellow, White House Presidential Innovation Fellow, Department of Veterans Affairs - 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 - Tim Sweeney, MD, PhD, (Duke), MS (Stanford)
Current: Co-Founder & CEO, Inflammatix
Thesis: Toll-like Receptor (TLR) Signaling and Differential Activation
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 - 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
- Andy Beck, MD (Brown), PhD
Current: Co-founder, President and CEO, PathAI
Thesis: Computational pathology for genomic medicine - Hua Fan-Minogue, MD (Peking Univ), PhD (UAB); MS
Current: - 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 - Alicia Martin, MS (Stanford Genetics)
Current: Instructor in Investigation, Massachusetts General Hospital - Jesse Rodriguez, MS (Stanford), PhD
Current: Software Engineer, Google
Thesis: Accurate methods for ancestry and relatedness inference - Shanshan Tuo, PhD (Stanford Genetics), MS
Current: Data Scientist, xAd, Inc. - Xueheng Zhao, MS
Current: Research Associate, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
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
- Robert Arrigo, BS (Illinois State University), MS
Current: Anesthesiologist, Stanford Health Carte - 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 - Peter Kang, BMED (Seoul National University); MS
Current: Vice President of Translational Research, Tempus Labs - 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 - Daniel Li, BS (Johns Hopkins); MS
Current: Senior Platform Engineer, Crunchbase - David Maslove, MD (University of Toronto) BSC University of Guelph; MS
Current: Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Critical Care Medicine, Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario) - 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 - Jon Palma, MD (University of Florida), BSC (Davidson College); MS
Current: Neonatologist, Pediatrix Medical Group - Steve Pan, MD (University of Pittsburgh), BSc (Columbia University); MS
Current: Associate Professor of Medicine, New York Medical College - 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 - Rob Tirrell, BS (Cornell University); MS
Deceased 2012. - Brendan Todaro, BSC (Emory); MS
Current: Senior Software Engineer, Tinder Inc. - 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
- Sarim Baig, BS (Lahore, Pakistan); MS
Current: Bioinformatics and Computer Science instructor in Pakistan. - Michael Cantor, BA (Wesleyan University); MS, PhD
Current: Staff Software Engineer, Pacific Biosciences
Thesis: Rational engineering in synthetic biology : a genetic pulse generator - Nadeem Riaz, BS (Rutgers University); MD (2003); MS
Current: Assistant Attending, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center - Shirley Wu, ScB (Brown University); PhD
Current: Director of Health Prodcut, 23andMe
Thesis: Characterization of protein function using automated computational methods
2008
- Genaro Hernandez, BS (San Diego State University); MS
Current: Medical Laboratory Technician, Adventist Health - Maureen Hillenmeyer, BS (Notre Dame); PhD
Current: Founder & CEO, Hexagon Bio
Thesis: Identifying relationships between genes and small molecules, from yeast to humans - Runa Islam, BA, MS (Harvard); MS
Current: Lead Business Strategist, Well-Being Transformation, CVS Health - 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 - Nadeem Riaz, MS/MD, BS (Rutgers University) MS
Current: Resident, Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NY, NY - 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
- Aneel Advani, MD, MPH (Johns Hopkins); MS
Current: Chairman & CEO, Global Virtual Group - Michael Cantor, BA (Wesleyan Univ); MS
Current: Computer Scientist, Joint Genome Institute - Kurt Huang, AB (Harvard); MD (2002), MS
Current: CEO and Co-founder, Mozart Medical - 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 - John Park, AB (Harvard); MS
Current: Researcher in the Computer Science Dept at the University of Maryland, College Park - 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 - Roni Zeiger BS (UC Los Angeles); MD (Stanford); Board Certified Internist; MS
Current: Head of Health Strategy, Facebook
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 - Nhan Do BS (Baylor University); MD (George Washington University); MS
Current: Director, Informatics Center, Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine - 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 - Dan Zisook BA (UC Berkeley); MD (Loyola University); MPH (San Diego State University); MS
Current: 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
- 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 - Todd Ferris MD (University of Michigan); MS
Current: Chief Technology Officer, Information Resources & Technology, Stanford University School of Medicine - Doug Fridsma BS, MD (University of Michigan) PhD
Current: President and CEO of AMIA
Thesis: Organizational simulation of medical work : an information-processing approach - Greg Garrison MD (University of Minnesota); MS Board Certified, American Board of Family Practice
Current: Senior Associate Consultant, Mayo Clinic, Department of Family Medicine and Laboratory of Medical Informatics - Michelle Green BS (Purdue), PhD (UCSF); MS
Current: Executive Director of Consulting Services, Quantitative Solutions - 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
- Phillip Cheng MD (Yale); MS ; Board Certified, Radiology
Current: Associate Professor of Clinical Radiology, University of Southern California - 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 - Justin Graham MD (UCSF) MS ; Board Certified Infectious Disease Specialist
Current: Principal, JVG Healthcare - 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
- Elmer Bernstam MD(Univ Michigan); MSE (Univ Michigan;) MS ; Board Certified, American Board of Internal Medicine
Current: Professor and Associate Dean for Research, School of Biomedical Informatics, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston - 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 - John Michon MD (University of Illinois); MS Diplomate, American board of Ophthalmology
Current: Consultant in Data Science, Genentech
2000
- Elizabeth Burnside MD (Tufts); MPH (Tufts); MS – Board Certified, Radiology
Current: Senior Associate Dean, School of Medicine and Public Health, and Deputy Director of Institute of Clinical Translational Science, University of Wisconsin - 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 - John Nguyen BS (UC Davis); MS , MD (Stanford)
Current: - 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 - Daniel Rubin, MD (Stanford); MS Board Certified Radiology
Current: Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Radiology, and Medicine at Stanford School of Medicine - John Shon AB (Harvard); MD (Stanford); MS Board Certified, American Board of Internal Medicine
Current: Chief Technology Officer, Serlmmune Inc. - Howard Strasberg MD (University of Western Ontario); MS
Current: Vice-President of Medical Informatics at Wolters Kluwer Health – Clinical Solutions - 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
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
- Richard Chen BS/MS (Stanford); MS , MD (2007)
Current: Chief Scientific Officer, Personalis, and Attending Physician, Stanford Dermatology - 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 - Chris Flowers BA (Stanford); MD/MS
Current: Chair, Professor, Department of Lymphoma/Myeloma, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas - 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
- William Detmer MD (UCSF); MS
Current: President, Unbound Medicine Inc., Charlottesville - 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
Current: Vice President and Chief Science Officer, IBM Watson Health
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
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 - Adam Galper BA (Yale); MS
Current: Advisor/Investor for Startups - 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 - Kevin Johnson MD (Johns Hopkins); MS
Current: Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor and Chair, Biomedical Informatics, Professor of Pediatrics, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Health I.T. Vanderbilt University Medical Center - David Millis MD (Howard); MS
Current: Psychiatrist, Center for Psychiatric & Addiction Treatment in Manassas, Virginia - Ricardo Peverini MD (Loma Linda); MS
Current: Vice Dean for Clinical Faculty, Loma Linda University School of Medicine - 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
- 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
- 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 - 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 - Leslie Lenert MD (UCLA); MS
Current: Assistant Provost for Data Science and Informatics at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Chief Research Information Officer, Professor of Internal Medicine, and SMART State Chair in Healthcare Quality at MUSC. - Richard Lin MD and MPH (UCSF); MS
Current: Staff Physician, Northport VA Hospital; Professor, Stony Brook University - Jeanette Polaschek BSN and MS (Boston University); MS
Current: Hospital Management Consultant - Eric Sherman MD (NYU); MS
Current: Partner, Concorde Medical Group, PLLC; Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, NYU School of Medicine - Michael Shwe BS (Stanford); MS
Current: Product Manager, Google; Advisory Board Member, Upwork
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 - Curt Langlotz AB, MS (Stanford); MD/PhD
Current: Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Informatics; Director, Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging; Associate Chair for Information Systems, Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine; and Medical Informatics Director, Stanford Health Care
Thesis: A Decision-theoretic approach to heuristic planning - John Reed BS, MBA (University of Michigan); MS
Current: President, John Reed Consulting - George Thomsen MD (Loma Linda); MS
Current: Private practice Pulmonary Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah
1988
- Homer Chin MD (Dartmouth); MS
Current: Physician, Kaiser Permanente Northwest; Affiliate Professor, Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, OHSU; Fellow, American College of Medical Informatics; Board Member at OCHIN, Inc.; Board Member, Tucker Maxon School; Associate at OpenNotes - Joan Differding BA (Swarthmore); MS
Current: Technical Manager, Director of the Multi-Mission Operations Center, NASA Ames Research Center - Michael Goldbaum MD (Tulane); MS
Current: Professor of Ophthalmology, Co-director Retina and Vitreous Service, University of California at San Diego. - 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 - Don Rucker MD (University of Pennsylvania); MBA(1987), MS
Current: National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) – US Dept of HHS Office of the Secretary
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. - 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.
Coterminal MS
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
MS in Leadership and Project Management at Boston College
- Adyant, Shankar
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
Professional/Honors Cooperative Program MS
2025
- Paulina Paiz
- Jimmy Qian
President at Osmid
2024
- Gabrielle Bunney
Emergency Physician, Assistant Professor, Dept. Emergency Medicine, Stanford University - Ran Geng
Director, OrbiMed - Hannah Grossman
Senior Software Engineer, Cedar - Michelle Chia-Jui Hung
Software Engineer at LinkedIn - Claire Martin
Senior Data Scientist at Prolaio - Peter McCaffrey
Chief AI Officer, University of Texas Medical Branch - Eric Pan
Embarking on start-up venture
2023
- Chenyu Li
Health Research Scientist at CalPERS - Srikar Rao Nallan
Senior Director at Stanford HealthCare - Abby Pandya
Current: Data Science Product Management, Stanford Healthcare
2022
- Gary Burnett
Current: Data Scientist, NVIDIA - Emily Dong
Current: Senior Engineer, Genentech - Sebastian Kronmueller
Current: VP, Head of Strategy & Business Development, Siemens Healthineers - Adam Papini
- Joshua Price
Current: Bioinformatics Contractor/Consultant, JMP Projects LLC - Yuyang Xia
- Eric Yeh
Current: Ophthalmology Resident at National Taiwan University Hospital
2021
- Greggory McInnes
Current: Senior Scientist, Emprico Inc. - Nicholas Phillips
Current: Machine Learning Engineering, GSK - Kostya Sebov
Current: Staff Software Engineer, Ambient.ai - Masaki Yamada
Current: Product Manager, Culture Biosciences
2020
- Sehj Kashyap
Current: Product Lead, Clinikk - Karen Ouyang
Current: Clinical Molecular Geneticist and Data Scientist, Invitae - Alexander Ruch
Current: Director, Charles Schwab - Carlos Suarez
- Elizabeth Tran
Current: Machine Learning Scientist, Stanford
2019
- Alon Ben-Ari
Current: CMIO, Associate Chief of Staff for Clinical Informatics Northern California VA Health Care System - Anna Brezhneva
Current: Product Manager, Betteromics - Majed Magzoub
- Abby Pandya
Current: VP of Strategic Partnerships, Olive - Tiffany Wang
Current: Scientist III, Thermo Fisher Scientific
2018
- Sombudha Adhikari
Current: Director & VP, IMPL Solutions - Ashley Elliott Lui
Current: CTO and Co-Founder at Travelnuts, Inc. - Evan Minty
Current: Knowledge Lead (Medicine) at Alberta Health Services - Alex C. Wells
Current: Scripps Institute Research Consultant, Vanderbilt Medical Student
2017
- Evan Minty
Current: Physician Builder, Clinical Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine, Alberta Health Services
2016
- Ken Ferrell
Current: System Director Data Science, CommpnSpirit Health - Kranthi Gandrapu
Current: Senior Technical Product Manager, Meta - Ivan Ip
Current: Chief Medical Information Officer, Covenant Health
2015
- Anthony Chang
Current: Founder, Medical Intelligence 10 - Peter Lamb
Current: Computer Scientist, GE Global Research Center, New York - Eric Wong
Current: Group Chief Clinical Informatics Officer, National Healthcare Group
2013
- Marisa Torres
Current: Bioinformatics Lead, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
2012
- Tomer Altman
Current: Senior Bioinformatics/ Data Science Consultant, Altman Analytics LLC - Ming Guo
Current: University of Texas Medical Branch, Business Intelligence Manager; Volunteer at the Rare Genomics Institute - David Maslove
Current: Clinical Scientist in the Departments of Medicine and Critical Care Medicine; Assistant Professor, Queen’s University - Mike Polcari
Current: VP & Chief Architect, 23andMe - Mark A. Smith
Current: Software Engineer, Facebook
2011
- Viji Ganapathi
Current: Senior Engineering Manager, Pure Storage
2009
- Joel Dudley
Current: Chief Scientific Ifficer; Co-Founder and Scientific Advisor, Tempus Labs Inc. - Ron Gonzalez
Current: Senior Director Machine Learning AI, Visa - Kenneth Jung
Current: Machine Learning Engineer, Apple - Randal Walker
Current: Bioinformatics Engineer
2008
- Rahul Choudhury
Current: Senior Software Engineer Manager, NVIDIA - Chirag Patel
Current: BMI PhD. Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
2007
- Christina Lu
Current: Executive Director and Head of Data Management and Engineering, Genentech - Venkata Saripalli
Current: Vice President, Berkeley Lights, Inc.
2006
- Krithika Ramamoorthy
Current: Senior Director, Genentech
2005
- Steven Lin
Current: Deceased 2015 - David Patariu
Current: Senior Privacy Counsel (Privacy, Ad, Tech, & Cybersecurity), Instacart
2004
- Prashanth Ranganathan
Current: Chief Executive Officer, PayU Credit LazyPay
Ph.D. Minor
2024
-
Xianghao Zhan, Ph.D. minor
Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford
2023
- Ellen Bouchard
Computational Biologist at Oregon Health and Science University
2022
- Ioannis Kipouros
Postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley
2020
- Samantha Piekos
Current: Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Institute of Systems Biology
2019
- Erika Bongen
Current: Scientist , Immuno-Oncology Translational Bioinformatics at Bristol-Myers Squibb
2017
- Bing Wu
Current: Scientist, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
2016
- Yunqin Lee
Current: Exploring opportunities
2012
- Saeed Hassanpour
Current: Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College