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Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Medicine (BMIR)
Jason Alan Fries
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Medicine (BMIR)
Jason Fries' research focuses on training and evaluating foundation models for healthcare, positioned at the intersection of computer science, medical informatics, and hospital systems. His work explores the use of electronic health record (EHR) data to contextualize human health, leveraging longitudinal patient information to inform model development and evaluation. His research has been published in venues such as NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI, Nature Communications, Nature Medicine and npj Digital Medicine.
Projects
Snorkel
A system for rapidly creating, modeling, and managing training data, focused on accelerating the development of structured or “dark” data extraction applications for domains in which large labeled training sets are not available or easy to obtain.
Education
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Stanford University, Computer Science (2017)
PhD, University of Iowa, Computer Science (2015)
B.A., University of Iowa, Computer Science (2009)
B.A., University of Iowa, English (2009)