Manuel Rivas

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science

Academic Appointments

Assistant Professor, Biomedical Data Science
Member, Bio-X

Honors & Awards

Clarendon Scholar, University of Oxford (2010-2015)
Osler Award, University of Oxford (2010-2015)
Gates Millenium Scholar, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (2004-2008)

Professional Education

DPhil, University of Oxford, Clinical Medicine (2015)
B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mathematics (2008)

2023-24 Courses

Generative AI in Healthcare
BIODS 295, DESIGN 266 (Spr)
Workshop in Biostatistics
BIODS 260A, STATS 260A (Aut)

Independent Studies
- Biomedical Informatics Teaching Methods
  BIOMEDIN 290 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Directed Reading and Research
  BIODS 299 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Directed Reading and Research
  BIOMEDIN 299 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Master's Research
  CME 291 (Aut, Win)
- Medical Scholars Research
  BIOMEDIN 370 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Ph.D. Research
  CME 400 (Spr)
- Ph.D. Research Rotation
  CME 391 (Spr)

Prior Year Courses

2020-21 Courses

Analytics Accelerator
BIODS 217, CME 217 (Aut, Win)
Cloud Computing for Biology and Healthcare
BIOMEDIN 222, CS 273C, GENE 222 (Spr)
Topics in Biomedical Data Science: Large-scale inference
BIODS 215 (Win)
Workshop in Biostatistics
BIODS 260B, STATS 260B (Win)

Stanford Advisees

Doctoral Dissertation Reader (AC)
Rosa Ma

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