🎙️ 2026-May: Ze Wang's abstract, titled "Estimating the prevalence of antimicrobial-resistant gonorrhea in the United States counties using machine learning models" is accepted for an oral presentation at the 2026 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, being held in Austin, TX, between November 7-11, 2026. Congratulations, Ze!
🎙️ 2026-May: Ritvik Penchala's abstract, titled "Can Large Language Models Support Multi-Objective Decision Making?" is accepted for an oral presentation at the 2026 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, being held in Austin, TX between November 7-11, 2026. Congratulations, Ritvik!
📊 2026-May: Xavier Guaracha's abstract, titled "Reliable forecasting of local surges in hospitalizations from machine-learning models trained exclusively on simulated pandemics," is accepted for a poster presentation at the 2026 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, being held in Austin, TX, between November 7-11, 2026. Congratulations, Xavier!
📖 2026-Apr: Rachel Murray-Watson's paper, titled "Forecasting Local Surges in COVID-19 Hospitalizations through Adaptive Decision Tree Classifiers," is published in Medical Decision Making. Congratulations, Rachel!
📊 2026-Apr: Ze Wang's abstract, titled "Estimating the prevalence of antimicrobial-resistant gonorrhea in the United States counties using machine learning models" is accepted for a poster presentation at the 2026 UCSF Health Services Research Symposium, being held in San Francisco, CA, on May 13. Congratulations, Ze!
🎓 2026-Mar: Tianfang Shao is admitted to the Psychology PhD program at Cornell. Congratulations, Tianfang!
📊 2026-Mar: Ze Wang's abstract, titled "Estimating the prevalence of antimicrobial-resistant gonorrhea in the United States counties using machine learning models" is accepted for a poster presentation at the 2026 Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) conference, being held in Oslo, Norway, between June 28-July 1, 2026. Congratulations, Ze!
📊 2026-Mar: Mariana Raniere's abstract, titled "Enhancing Interpretability of Machine Learning-Integrated Decision Models," is nominated for the Lee B. Lusted Student Prizes to be awarded during the 2026 Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) conference, being held in Oslo, Norway, between June 28-July 1, 2026. Congratulations, Mariana!
📊 2026-Mar: Tima Mikdashi's abstract, titled "Who Needs More Data? Comparing Statistical and Value of Information Frameworks to Address Data Inequity in Clinical Trials," is nominated for the Lee B. Lusted Student Prizes to be awarded during the 2026 Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) conference, being held in Oslo, Norway, between June 28-July 1, 2026. Congratulations, Tima!
📊 2026-Mar: Xavier Guaracha's abstract, titled "Reliable forecasting of local surges in hospitalizations from machine-learning models trained exclusively on simulated pandemics," is accepted for a poster presentation at the 2026 Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) conference, being held in Oslo, Norway, between June 28-July 1, 2026. Congratulations, Xavier!
📊 2026-Mar: Yashleen Sharma's abstract titled “Cost-effective analysis of short-course treatment regimens for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis," is accepted for poster presentation at the 2026 Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) conference, being held in Oslo, Norway, between June 28-July 1, 2026. Congratulations, Yashleen!
📊 2026-Mar: Ritvik Penchala's abstract, titled "Evaluating Large Language Models as Decision-Support Tools for Pandemic Policy Making," is accepted for a poster presentation at the 2026 Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) conference, being held in Oslo, Norway, between June 28-July 1, 2026. Congratulations, Ritvik!
🎙️ 2026-Mar: Xavier Guaracha's abstract, titled "Reliable forecast of local surges in hospitalization from machine-learning models trained only on simulated pandemics," is accepted for an oral presentation at the Council for State, Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) conference, being held in Boston, between May 31-June 4, 2026. Congratulations, Xavier!
🎓 2026-Mar: Xavier Guaracha is admitted to the UCSF & UC Berkeley Computational Precision Health (CPH) PhD program. Congratulations, Xavier!
🎙️2025-Nov: Xavier Guaracha presented her podium abstract, titled "Forecasting surges in local hospitalizations during novel viral pandemics with scarce surveillance data," at the 2025 MIDAS Meeting. Congratulations, Xavier!
🎙️2025-Nov: Mariana Neves presented her podium abstract, titled "Using machine learning models to inform personalized, cost-effective treatment recommendations," at the 2025 American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium. Congratulations, Mariana!
🚀 2025-Sep: We joined UCSF!