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Nava, A. (AM) – Machine-Learning Methods for Prediction of Biological Systems

Engineering 2 Engineering 2 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz
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Advances in microscopy have enabled the collection of high-quality single-cell datasets, providing new opportunities to identify the mechanisms underlying complex biological processes. In this work, we develop machine-learning frameworks using single-cell temporal data with the goal of predicting and providing insights into these mechanisms. We produce frameworks for two biological systems, bacterial spore germination, the […]

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Huang, X. (CSE) – Scalable and Verifiable Reasoning for Medical Foundation Models

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This PhD research focuses on developing reliable medical foundation models capable of reasoning across textual, visual, and interactive clinical information. The work investigates three complementary directions: improving medical reasoning through test-time scaling, training multimodal medical models with verifiable rewards, and synthesizing high-quality visual question-answering data from biomedical literature using generator-verifier frameworks. Building on these efforts, […]