Alumni: PhD and Academic MS
2022
- Rocky Aiken, PhD
Current: Statistician, Mathematica - Margaret Mary Antonio, PhD
Current: N/A - Thomas Asha, MS
Current: Bioinformatics Engineer, Grail - Katelyn Bechler, MS
Current: Senior Bioinformatics Engineer, GRAIL, Inc. - Elizabeth Chin, PhD
Current: N/A - 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
Current: N/A
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 - 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 - Alice Yu, PhD
Current: Computational Scientists, Stealth Startup - Yuhao Zhang, MS
Current: Applied Scientist, Amazon Web Services
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: Head of Detect Labs - 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.