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Dr. Geoffrey H. Tison, MD MPH
The Tison lab is led by Dr. Geoff Tison, a practicing cardiologist, NIH-funded researcher and expert in machine learning and artificial intelligence applied to medicine. He is an Associate Professor in the Division of Cardiology, is Co-Director of the Center for Biosignal Research, and is faculty in the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, the UCSF/Berkeley Computational Precision Health Program and the Center for Intelligent Imaging. He obtained formal training in epidemiology, statistical methods and machine learning during his tenure at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and as a National Institutes of Health T32 scholar. His clinical areas of expertise include internal medicine, advanced echocardiography/cardiac imaging and preventive cardiology.
Dr. Joshua Barrios, PhD
Dr. Barrios is an investigator in the Tison Lab and a computational biologist whose work focuses on building intelligent systems for understanding complex biological data. He is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Cardiology, with a joint appointment in the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute. His expertise lies in applying machine learning to raw biomedical signals, including images, video, and physiological waveforms, to uncover structure in health and disease. Dr. Barrios leads multiple core research projects and infrastructure initiatives in the Tison Lab, with a focus on scalable multimodal modeling and foundational methods for biomedical AI.
Minhaj Ansari, MS
Minhaj is a computer scientist and Data Scientist in the Tison lab. He specializes in developing models across the machine learning and deep learning spectrum to advance medical disease prediction and prevention.
River Jiang, MD
Dr. Jiang is a postdoctoral scholar in the Clinician Investigator Program at University of British Columbia. He completed his advanced echocardiography training at UCSF. He leads core research projects in the Tison lab.
Kaihua (William) Hou, PhD (candidate)
Kaihua is a PhD candidate in the joint UCSF/UC Berkeley Computational Precision Health program. He is completing his doctoral thesis work in the Tison lab.
Jeremy Bancroft-Brown, MD
Dr. Bancroft-Brown is a resident physician at UCSF with a background in biomedical imaging research. He is conducting research in the Tison lab.
Griffith Hughes, MD (candidate)
Griffith is a medical student at the UCSF School of Medicine with a background in medical devices and machine learning. He is leading research projects in the Tison lab.
Curtis Chambers, PhD (candidate)
Curtis is a PhD student in the joint UCSF/UC Berkeley Computational Precision Health program and is conducting dissertation research in the Tison Lab.
