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Getting ready for JupyterCon 2025: How UC Berkeley is Using Jupyter to Support Healthcare providers, Geospatial Data, and Data Science Education | Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)

Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · 1d

Nov. 7, 12-1PM. Finale Doshi-Velez presents “Interpretability and Human+AI Interaction for AI Decision Support in Health.”Mission Hall MH-1400 or via Zoom. Register here: ucsf.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · 6d

At the Oxford Global Precision Medicine conference in SF? Dont' miss keynote tomorrow AM by CPH's @IdaSim.bsky.social on AI, data integration, and how a new approach to digital infrastructure could scale personalised healthcare across clinical and research settings @OGPREMED #digitalhealth

Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · 13d

This Wed, @djaganath.bsky.social MD delivers the CPH seminar on TB biomarkers, and moving from discovery to practice. Join us! Oct 22 1-2 PT Via Zoom. @ucsfchildrens.bsky.social Register here: buff.ly/7OsMIyY

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · 16d

Heading to JupyterCon in San Diego? On Nov. 4, 4:55 - 5:20pm, check out JupyterHealth: bridging wearables, clinical data & computation with @IdaSim.bsky.social and @Fernandoperez.org. Also an 11/3 am workshop with JP Pollak Jessalyn Dunn & co. Info here! buff.ly/ZYVb5Rs @UCBIDS.bsky.social

BIDS events are the foundation of the community, where people gather and share. Read reports on those events and other relevant items of interest to the data science community.

Honoring Atul Butte's Enduring Legacy Seminar

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · 17d

Fri., Oct. 31 1-2pm PT via Zoom and in-person at Mission Hall MH-1400. Honoring the many contributions to the UCSF computational ecosystem by @atulbutte.bsky.social. Cosponsored by CPH. Register here: buff.ly/rzyaoUz

The October AI seminar will honor Atul Butte's enduring legacy by showcasing projects built on the computational ecosystem he helped create at UCSF.

Bedside to Bench: Reinventing Medicine with AI - September 18, 2025 - USC Schaeffer

Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · 19d

Reza Abbasi-Asl and colleagues from UCSF & @alleninstitute.org in @nature.com on their CellTransformer, an AI model creating a fine-grained map of the brain at unprecedented detail and scale. #neurology buff.ly/s7fEGQP

Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · 20d

Tomorrow, Oct. 14, 2-3:30 PT. CPH and @berkeleypublichlth.bsky.social faculty Ziad Obermeyer presents on “Bedside to Bench: Reinventing Medicine with AI” at @schaeffer.usc.edu (and via Zoom) buff.ly/lJgS5N9

Ziad Obermeyer works at the intersection of medicine and AI, asking fundamental questions about how data can transform health and healthcare. He is - Bedside to Bench: Reinventing Medicine with AI…

This medical startup uses LLMs to run appointments and make diagnoses

Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · 26d

Congrats to CPH's Adam Yala, collaborator Maggie Chung, MD and team, honored with UCSF Carroll Innovation award for bold, disruptive research on vision/language models for improved diagnosis. Pioneering work and a great honor! UCSF Radiology

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · 27d

CPH and @UC Berkeley EECS Prof. @emmapierson.bsky.social on whether AI use to remove the doctor from medical visits is really what we need--in MIT Tech Review @technologyreview.com

“Our focus is really on what we can do to pull the doctor out of the visit,” says Akido’s CTO.

www.technologyreview.com

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Oct 3

ICYMI. Watch CPH's @idasim.bsky.social talk to the NIH's Bridge2AI about the new ethics required for doctor/patient interactions in the age of "relational" AI. #GenAI

Relational Health AI and Respect for Persons | Ida Sim | Discussion Forum on Emerging ELSI Issues

September 2025: This month, Dr. Ida Sim discussed relational AI in healthcare and its impact on respecting all persons, including patients and clinicians. With generative AI, machines now used…

Why elected leaders began to speak more positively about immigration 75 years ago.

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Oct 3

@goodauth.bluesky.social analyzes shifting political speech on immigration---building on work by CPH's Serina Chang and Dan Jurofsky and co. goodauthority.org/news/why-ele...

One figure explains the Cold War’s influence on America’s immigration past – and what’s happening now.

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Sep 29

Join us Oct 22 1-2 PT for the CPH seminar: DevanJanagath, MD, MPH on Biomarkers for Tuberculosis Diagnosis--including wearables, computation and translating from discovery to practice. Via Zoom. Register here: buff.ly/7OsMIyY

Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Sep 19

Good news! CPH's @amalaa.bsky.social and colleagues @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social and Tom Harvitgsen have received a grant from the NIH Director's office for work on participatory mutimodal AI and editable foundation models to improve diagnosis and tx. @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Sep 18

The CPH PhD program is now accepting applications for Fall 2026 🎓 ✨

We're looking for passionate, driven students ready to shape the future of health with the power of computation.

🔗 Learn more and apply: buff.ly/puAPR5w
#AIHealth #UCSF #UCBerkeley #FutureofHealth

PhD Program - Computational Precision Health

PhD Program The PhD in Computational Precision Health leverages and bridges the complementary expertise and incredible resources of UC Berkeley and UCSF to create an unparalleled and truly unique…

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Sep 16

Well-labeled, diverse, open repos of medical data are rare. CPH+U Chicago's CAII are changing that--CPH this fall becomes a co-host of Nightingale, a global repo of ground-truthed de-ided medical images. buff.ly/FHiwBQU h/t Nightingale co-founder Ziad Obermeyer @berkeleypublichlth.bsky.social

Partnering to Advance the Future of AI in Health

CAAI and UCSF UC Berkeley’s Computational Precision Health program to jointly host diverse, high-quality health data repository.

CPH: a Different AI Education

Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Sep 12

How to assess AI fit and function in health, and how does context change the calculus? Hear from Jean Feng @irenetrampoline.bsky.social and Hugo Campos Jr (and others on the CPH YouTube channel). @ajh.bsky.social moderates. buff.ly/YBTvBJD @ucsfdocit.bsky.social

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Aug 26

CPH's Executive Director @wolfenyc on why CPH is a different kind of #AI education program, and why it matters. #AI4Good #VoicesofCPH

featuring CPH's Executive Director, Daniel Wolfe

CDSS welcomes 17 new faculty to the college in 2025

Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Aug 25

Welcome @emmapierson.bsky.social and @serinachang5.bsky.social -- we're so thrilled to have you in the Computational Precision Health community!

cdss.berkeley.edu/news/cdss-we... @berkeleycdss.bsky.social

UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) welcomed 17 new faculty in statistics, electrical engineering and computer sciences, and computational precision health to its comm...

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AI based risk detection models for personalized cancer screening

Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Aug 19

How can we better #model #gigabytes of #data when screening for #cancer and other #health conditions? CPH's Dr. Adam Yala discusses how he is building the next generation of #AI risk detection models.

Featuring: Dr. Adam Yala

System incentives when considering AI advances in health

Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Aug 5

“It’s about the human components of practicing everyday.”

CPH faculty & Center for Healthcare Marketplace Innovation’s Jon Kolstad discusses why we need to think about system incentives when considering #AI advances in #health.
#BerkeleyHaas #AI4all #economics

Featuring: Dr. Jonathan Kolstad

"Why did the AUC drop?" Explaining Performance Changes of ML Models across Hospital Sites

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Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Jul 29

Great both to welcome @Serinachang5.bsky.social to CPH faculty, and to see her honored with a Google Research award to advance a new generation of AI-powered population health models!

Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Jul 29

#ML models often drop in performance from one #hospital to another. How do we understand reasons for the drop & use them to improve #models? Dr. Harvineet Singh
tells us about a framework that provides an actionable decomposition of performance. buff.ly/Gl8sNW4 #AIforall

Featuring Harvineet Singh

Doubly Robust Policy Learning for Causal Stochastic Interventions Thru Auto-debiased Neural Networks

Computational Precision Health @ucjointcph.bsky.social · Jul 15

Sylvia Chen proposes doubly robust policy learning, where targeted maximum likelihood estimation with automatically debiased neural nets to learn the optimal shifts for multidimensional #treatment #variables under a stochastic treatment regime. #causalinference www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DhF...

Featuring Sylvia Cheng