Collaboration & Careers Forum 2026 – Stanford – Department of Biomedical Data Science

Tuesday, January 27, 2026 from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm

Stanford Alumni Center – McCaw Hall

DBDS faculty, students, postdocs, staff scientists and external collaborators

This was an opportunity for leaders from companies, government agencies, and other outside organizations to engage with our faculty, graduate students, postdocs, and staff scientists. We discussed the latest advancements in AI, data science, and multimodal data integration, all aimed at accelerating precision healthcare and medicine through collaboration with our Department of Biomedical Data Science (DBDS) community. Each participating organization had a dedicated high table, providing a more intimate setting to meet and discuss their interests with our talented individuals.

Jonathan Chen presents at the Stanford Department of Biomedical Data Science C&C 2026 — Jonathan Chen, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine (Biomedical Informatics) and of Biomedical Data Science, talks about AI in Medicine. Watch his presentation below.

Students attend Stanford Department of Biomedical Data Science Collaboration and Careers Forum 2026

Agenda:

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM Check-in & Light Breakfast
9:30 AM – 9:45 AM DBDS Initiatives 2026 with Department Chair Sylvia Plevritis
9:45 AM – 11:15 AM Faculty Lightning Talks

Barbara Engelhardt Advancing statistical machine learning for genomics and health data
Teri Klein Integrating Pharmacogenomics into Broader Genomic Medicine

Jason Fries: Innovating at the Intersection of Clinical AI and Data-Centric Methods

Jonathan Chen: AI in Medical Reasoning and Clinical Decision Support

Alex Ioannidis: Integrating Genomics and Phenotype Data with Computational
Methods for Precision Medicine and Global Health

Moderators:
Ying Lu, Professor of Biomedical Data Science and, by courtesy of, Epidemiology
Akshay Chaudhari, Assistant Professor (Research) of Radiology (Integrative Biomedical Imaging Informatics at Stanford) and of Biomedical Data Science

11:15 AM – 12:30 PM Interactive Collaboration Forum
12:30 PM – 1:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM External Partners Panel: Humans, Agents, and Infrastructure: The Future of AI in Health

Amar Das, Vice President – Real World Evidence, Guardant Health
Jing Huang, Chief Data & AI Officer (CareDx, Inc.)
Matt Lungren, Adjunct Professor Stanford and Clinical Associate Professor UCSF
Devi Ramanan, Managing Director (Accenture)

Panel Discussion Stanford Department Biomdedical Data Science

Moderators:
Susie Avagyan PhD student at DBDS
Shlok Natarajan MS Student at DBDS

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Optional: Continued Discussions

Sylvia Plevritis: Precision Oncology and Cancer Systems Biology this is just text to take it down to the next line to the next line

Students at 2026 DBDS Collaboration & Careers Forum