UCLA_Computational Medicine@CompMedUCLA

The Department of Computational Medicine plays a critical role in strengthening collaboration between engineering and medicine at UCLA.

Joined April 2019
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Huge milestone for @UCLACompMed! We’re so proud to announce the first graduates from our Data Science in Biomedicine MS program. From an inaugural class of 9 in 2023 to 81+ students today, our growth is all thanks to our incredible students! compmed.ucla.edu/news/297
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Big news! Dr. @HujoelM has received an @NIH /NIGMS MIRA grant for Early Stage Investigators. The UCLA researcher will utilize population-scale biobank datasets to uncover mutational processes behind short tandem repeat instability. compmed.ucla.edu/news/317
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We celebrated 3 graduations, including the 2026 Bioinformatics Minor, the Biomathematics PhD, and the inaugural Data Science in Biomedicine MS program. They are prepared to innovate in healthcare with advanced skills in AI, genomics, and clinical modeling. compmed.ucla.edu/news/308
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CompMed UCLA professor @HMohimani is leveraging machine learning and mass spectrometry to identify drug metabolism patterns and address treatment-resistant infections. Read the full story at compmed.ucla.edu/news/306 @cnsiatucla #DGSOMUCLA
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New AI breakthrough from @CompMedUCLA @UCLACGSI researchers! A new deep learning model automates the detection of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) atrophy from 3D eye scans. @orenavram @YahelShwartz @ChowersItay compmed.ucla.edu/news/305 @Hadassah_Med @DohenyEye
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Yuzhe Yang
@yang_yuzhe
Mar 12
🚀HEARTS is built as a living ecosystem for the community: new data, new reasoning tasks, and new models can continue to be added over time! ➡️Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.06638 Great work led by @sirilee1104, @xiaoshuhan61, @mihirpjoshi_, and collaborators @aametwally1, @danmcduff, @WeiWang1973! Thanks for generous compute support from @Google @OpenAI @AnthropicAI @xai ❤️ @UCLA @UCLAengineering @CS_UCLA @CompMedUCLA @GoogleResearch #AI #HealthAI #LLM #TimeSeries #Multimodal

HEARTS: Benchmarking LLM Reasoning on Health Time Series

The rise of large language models (LLMs) has shifted time series analysis from narrow analytics to general-purpose reasoning. Yet, existing benchmarks cover only a small set of health time series...

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Yuzhe Yang
@yang_yuzhe
Mar 15
Meet OSF — a fully open benchmark and state-of-the-art family of sleep foundation models. 🌙 We study pre-training and scaling recipes that actually improve generalization in real-world settings. 🏥 🌐 Website: yang-ai-lab.github.io/osf/ 💻 Code: github.com/yang-ai-lab/OSF-O… 🤗 Models: hf.co/yang-ai-lab/OSF-Base 🧵👇
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UCLA's Prof. @yang_yuzhe on earning an Honorable Mention for the 2025 @AMIAinformatics Edward H. Shortliffe Doctoral Dissertation Award! From trustworthy clinical algorithms to AI biomarkers, his research is shaping the future of medical AI. compmed.ucla.edu/news/300 @CS_UCLA
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Big news for public health tech! 🦠 UCSC researchers just received an Innovation Catalyst grant for ImmPrint-SwabSeq, a new diagnostic tool building on @UCLA's SwabSeq. swabseq.compmed.ucla.edu/new… #HealthTech #UCSC #PublicHealth #Biotech
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Genentech Principal Scientist Benjamin Chu shares a key lesson from his @CompMedUCLA mentor, Dr. Ken Lange: master the basics! 💡 Read the full interview: compmed.ucla.edu/news/298 @dgsomucla @genentech @UCLAengineering #Mentorship
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Together with @CompMedUCLA, we're furthering development of the SwabSeq Metagenomic Diagnostic Platform, designed to detect viral pathogens. It could serve as a rapid response tool to detect a novel respiratory virus in a #HealthSecurity emergency: medicalcountermeasures.gov/b…
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How Changes in the Genome are Connected to Aging | "We found that most human genomes contain repeat elements that expand as we age," said Dr Margaux L. A. Hujoel. #genetics @dgsomucla compmed.ucla.edu/news/293
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FAME a powerful computational tool that explains why two people with the same genetic risk factor can have different health outcomes. @NatureGenet "FAME allows us to test millions of variants in hours," @Boyang1995 @sr_sankararaman compmed.ucla.edu/news/289
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🚨 UCLA's Dr. Marc Suchard (@UCLAFielding, CompMed) is named a World's Most Influential Researcher (HCR 2025). ➡️ Better modeling of infectious viral disease spread. ➡️ Improving public health preparedness. #UCLA #PublicHealth #Research #HighlyCited compmed.ucla.edu/news/288
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Yuzhe Yang
@yang_yuzhe
24 Nov 2025
📢 My lab at UCLA is hiring PhD students and postdocs! Please apply to @CS_UCLA or @CompMedUCLA if you are interested in foundation models and (Gen)AI for health / medicine / science. More info: cs.ucla.edu/~yuzhe. Please retweet!
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👨‍🎓Postdoc Position: AI/ML and Diabetes Research Professor Wei Wang is recruiting @WeiWang1973 @UCLA dknet.org/about/positions-av…
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🎓 Excited to announce the 6th Annual Lange Symposium on Computational Statistics & Biomedical Data Science at UCLA on Jan 26 2026 @CompMedUCLA & Human Genetics 🌟 Emily Fox, Trevor Hastie, Runze Li, John Novembre, and Lieven Vandenberghe. compmed.ucla.edu/news/284
🎓 Excited to announce the 6th Annual Lange Symposium on Computational Statistics & Biomedical Data Science at UCLA on Jan 26 2026, 9 AM–4 PM! Hosted by the Departments of Computational Medicine & Human Genetics, this event honours Kenneth Lange’s legacy in statistical genetics and mentoring. 🌟 Renowned speakers including Emily Fox, Trevor Hastie, Runze Li, John Novembre, and Lieven Vandenberghe. https://mailchi.mp/mednet.ucla.edu/langesymposium

ALT 🎓 Excited to announce the 6th Annual Lange Symposium on Computational Statistics & Biomedical Data Science at UCLA on Jan 26 2026, 9 AM–4 PM! Hosted by the Departments of Computational Medicine & Human Genetics, this event honours Kenneth Lange’s legacy in statistical genetics and mentoring. 🌟 Renowned speakers including Emily Fox, Trevor Hastie, Runze Li, John Novembre, and Lieven Vandenberghe. https://mailchi.mp/mednet.ucla.edu/langesymposium
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UCLA Samueli Engineering@UCLAengineering
13 Nov 2025
Congrats to the 9 @UCLA Samueli @UofCalifornia faculty members from @BioEngUCLA @UclaCBE @ECE_UCLA @UCLAMSE @CompMedUCLA named to @Clarivate's list of 2025 Highly Cited Researchers! #engineerchange samueli.ucla.edu/9-ucla-engi…

9 UCLA Engineering Professors Named to 2025 List of World’s Most Influential Researchers

Clarivate released today its list of 2025 Highly Cited Researchers, including nine faculty members affiliated with the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering.

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UCLA Samueli Engineering@UCLAengineering
10 Oct 2025
Congrats to @UCLA Prof. Sriram Sankararaman @UCLAComSci @CompMedUCLA @dgsomucla & Assist. Prof. Tyler Clites @UCLAMechAeroEng @BioEngUCLA, the Eon Instrumentation Inc. & Northrop Grumman @northropgrumman Excellence in Teaching Awards respective awardees. samueli.ucla.edu/ucla-samuel…
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CGSI Summer Program Talks Are Live: Relive the Science, Collaboration, and Community! compmed.ucla.edu/news/276 @CompMedUCLA @UCLAHealth
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