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Alexander Schubert

PhD Student · CPH

Alexander Schubert

Joint with Ziad Obermeyer

Alexander Schubert develops machine learning methods to expand access to life-saving cardiovascular interventions. His work centers on deep learning applied to electrocardiogram waveforms and large-scale clinical data, with the goal of identifying patients who stand to benefit from cardiovascular treatments but are missed by current diagnostic tools. His research spans three streams aimed at the decision-makers who shape cardiovascular outcomes. For physicians and health systems, he builds clinical risk models that identify risk not captured by established clinical markers, with current work on sudden cardiac death. For patients in low-resource settings, he develops AI for handheld ECG devices, including ongoing validation of a screening tool for silent myocardial infarction in rural India. For drug developers, he builds models for cardiac safety liability assessment, with a focus on hERG channel inhibition. Alexander is a PhD student in Computational Precision Health at UC Berkeley and a fellow at the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Before academia, he was a senior consultant at McKinsey & Company, advising pharma and healthcare clients on analytics-driven strategies. When he is not thinking about medical AI, you can usually find him on the walls of the nearest climbing gym.

Publications

A Deep Learning Approach to Quantitative PCR that Learns from Ground Truth
Ziad Obermeyer, H. Vu, Alexander Schubert, S. Selvan, P. Giannikopoulos, Ahmed Alaa
Preprint · 2026
Data Reuse Enables Cost-Efficient Randomized Trials of Medical AI Models
M. Nercessian, W. Zhang, Alexander Schubert, D. Yang, M. Chung, Ahmed Alaa†, Adam Yala† (†Co-senior authors)
arXiv preprint · 2025
InstructCV: Instruction-Tuned Text-to-Image Diffusion Models as Vision Generalists
Yulu Gan, Sungwoo Park, Alexander Schubert, Anthony Philippakis, Ahmed M. Alaa
ICLR · 2024
Pruning the Way to Reliable Policies: A Multi-Objective Deep Q-Learning Approach to Critical Care
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics · 2024
Dr-LLaVA: Visual Instruction Tuning with Symbolic Clinical Grounding
Shenghuan Sun, Greg M. Goldgof, Alexander Schubert, Z. Sun, Thomas Hartvigsen, Atul J. Butte, Ahmed Alaa
NeurIPS Workshop on Multimodal Algorithmic Reasoning · 2024