Nov12
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Speakers

Maggie Chung
Assistant Professor
Natsuko Onishi Yamashita
Assistant Researcher
Adam Yala, PhD
Assistant Professor of Computational Precision Health
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley
UCSF Radiology and Biomedical Imaging

Dr. Adam Yala is an assistant professor of Computational Precision Health, Statistics and Computer Science at UC Berkeley and UCSF, and the Founder & CEO of Voio. His academic research focuses on developing machine learning methods for personalized health care and translating them into clinical care.  His previous research focused on two areas: 1) predicting future cancer risk, and 2) designing personalized screening policies. His breast cancer tool, Mirai, has been tested at 66 hospitals from 30 countries. Adam's tools now underly prospective trials, and his research has been featured in the Washington Post, New York Times, and the Boston Globe. Adam obtained his BS, MEng and PhD in Computer Science from MIT where he was a member of MIT Jameel Clinic and MIT CSAIL.