UCLA_Computational Medicine

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

🚀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

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/OS… 🤗 Models: hf.co/yang-ai-lab/OS… 🧵👇

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

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/news-page/46 #HealthTech #UCSC #PublicHealth #Biotech

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

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/barda/dddi

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

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

🚨 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

📢 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!

👨‍🎓Postdoc Position: AI/ML and Diabetes Research Professor Wei Wang is recruiting @WeiWang1973 @UCLA dknet.org/about/position…

🎓 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

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-enginee…

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-samueli-a…

CGSI Summer Program Talks Are Live: Relive the Science, Collaboration, and Community! compmed.ucla.edu/news/276 @CompMedUCLA @UCLAHealth

We're excited to welcome three outstanding new faculty members Dr. Margaux Hujoel, Dr. Hosein Mohimani, and Dr. Yuzhe Yang. We're expanding our strengths in statistical genetics, small molecule discovery, and AI for health. @UCLAHealth compmed.ucla.edu/news/275

New @NatureGenet paper on how genetic variants in the identified regulatory regions shape predisposition to obesity. @Johnsonzchen @NameIsSankha with Prof. Paivi Pajukanta @UCLAHealth @CompMedUCLA

Glad to share our latest research on mapping the epigenomic landscape of subcutaneous adipose tissue is now published in @NatureGenet. We demonstrate how genetic variants in the identified regulatory regions shape predisposition to obesity and more: nature.com/articles/s4158…

AI model converts hospital records into text for better emergency care decisions compmed.ucla.edu/news/263 Simon A. Lee, Jeffrey N. Chiang @CompMedUCLA @NatureMedicine @UCLAHealth