Stanford - Department of Biomedical Data Science

Collaboration and Careers Forum
2026-01-27 09:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Stanford Alumni Center – McCaw Hall
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
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This is a fantastic opportunity for leaders from companies, government agencies, and other outside organizations to engage with our faculty, graduate students, postdocs, and staff scientists. We will discuss 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.
At the Forum, each participating organization will have a dedicated high table, providing the perfect setting to meet and discuss your interests with our talented individuals. Whether you’re looking to recruit, explore research collaborations, find advisors, or pursue other opportunities, we want to hear from you!
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
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
Teri Klein Integrating Pharmacogenomics into Broader Genomic Medicine
Sylvia Plevritis Precision Oncology and Cancer Systems Biology
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 (For external partners only: (Please reserve your table here)
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
Ezra Cohen, Chief Medical Officer of Oncology (Tempus AI)
Helio Costa, Head of Therapeutics (Natera)
Jing Huang (Chief Data & AI Officer (CareDx, Inc.)
Matt Lungren, GM Technical Advisor
Devi Ramanan, Managing Director (Accenture)

Moderators:
Susie Avagyan PhD student at DBDS
Shlok Natarajan MS Student at DBDS
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Optional: Continued Discussions
Don’t forget to RSVP: Register here!
