Principal Investigator

Ahmed M. Alaa
Assistant Professor · UC Berkeley & UCSF

Ahmed Alaa is an Assistant Professor with affiliations in EECS and Statistics at UC Berkeley and UCSF. Previously, he was a postdoctoral associate at MIT (CSAIL and IMES) and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University. He was also a joint postdoctoral scholar at Cambridge University, Cambridge Center for AI in Medicine and UCLA. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UCLA.

PhD Students

Alexander Schubert
PhD Student (CPH)
Joint with Ziad Obermeyer
Jivat Kaur
PhD Student (CPH)
Joint with Michael I. Jordan
Nikita Mehandru
PhD Student (Information School)
Joint with David Bamman
Kaihua (William) Hou
PhD Student (CPH)
Joint with Geoff Tison
Zhongyuan Liang
PhD Student (CPH)
Joint with Irene Y. Chen
Frances Dean
PhD Student (CPH)
Joint with Ziad Obermeyer
Jenna Fields
PhD Student (CPH)

Masters & Undergraduate Researchers

Niloufar Golchini
MD/MS Candidate
UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program
Abhijith Varma Mudunuri
BA Student
UC Berkeley Data Science & Statistics

Alumni

Visiting Grad & Undergrad Students

Yulu Gan
Yulu Gan
Research Intern (2023)
→ CS PhD student at MIT CSAIL
Jack Benarroch Jedlicki
Jack Benarroch Jedlicki
Research Intern (2023–2024)
→ CS PhD student at Harvard
Lars van der Laan
Lars van der Laan
Visiting PhD Student (2024)
University of Washington (Statistics)
Marie-Laure Charpignon
Marie-Laure Charpignon
Visiting PhD Student (2025)
MIT (IDSS)