
Adam Yala
UC Berkeley and UCSF
Contact: yala@berkeley.edu

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UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society. February 20, 2025
Research Group
Our research develops machine learning methods for personalized health care and translates them to clinical practice. Our overarching goal is to offer each patient the right intervention (e.g., screening exam, or particular treatment choice) at the right time according to their individual risks and preferences. We're also interested in developing robust tools to reimagine clinical workflows, with a special emphasis on radiology and oncology. To this end, our lab focuses on three major themes: 1) modeling full patient records (e.g. multi-modal imaging, vision-language, etc) to better understand patient outcomes, 2) deriving better decisions from AI-driven predictors (e.g. screening and treatment policies, choosing therapeutic targets, providing decision guarantees, etc.) and 3) clinical translation. Our tools are implemented at multiple hospital systems around the world, and underlie prospective clinical trials.
You can find a list of our publications here.


Long (Tony) Lian
PhD Student

Natalia Harguindeguy
PhD Student
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Arya
Principal Dog

Kumar Krishna Agrawal
PhD Student

Michael Nercessian
PhD Student
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Longchao (Joy) Liu
Masters Student ​

Xinyang Han
PhD Student
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Awards
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Eppy Award: Investigative Reporting 2022
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Falling Walls Finalist: Life Science 2022
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Top 10 Radiology 2019 papers by Downloads (#3)
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Top 10 Radiology 2019 papers by Downloads (#7)
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Top 10 Radiology 2019 papers by Altmetric (#5)
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Best Paper Award, EMNLP 2016
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NSF Fellowship, 2016
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MIT EECS Fellowship, 2016
Teaching
​CPH 200A: Machine Learning for Personalized Cancer care
Fall Quarter, UCSF
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CPH 100C: Foundations for Computational Precision Health
Fall Semester, UC Berkeley
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Bio
Adam Yala is an assistant professor of Computational Precision Health, Statistics and Computer Science at UC Berkeley and UCSF. His research focuses on developing machine learning methods for personalized health care and translating them into clinical care. His previous research focused on two areas: 1) predicting future cancer risk, and 2) designing personalized screening policies. His breast cancer tool, Mirai, has been tested at 66 hospitals from 30 countries. Adam's tools now underly prospective trials, and his research has been featured in the Washington Post, New York Times, and the Boston Globe. Prof Yala obtained his BS, MEng and PhD in Computer Science from MIT where he was a member of MIT Jameel Clinic and MIT CSAIL.