Jacob Rosenthal
Welcome to my website!
About Me
I am currently an MD-PhD student at the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program of Weill Cornell Medicine/Rockefeller University/Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. I am pursuing my PhD in Computational Biology and Medicine, where I am advised by Mert Sabuncu at Cornell Tech. Before that, I worked as a data scientist on the AI Operations group at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. Before that, I studied health data science in the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard University. Before that, I studied biology at Oberlin College. Before that, I grew up in Seattle.
Hobbies include running, backpacking, taking care of my houseplants, and playing chess.
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Research
I believe that AI will completely transform many areas of medicine, enabling the future of medical diagnostics, treatments, and systems that are more effective, efficient, and safe. My goal as a physician scientist is to bridge the gap between the worlds of medicine and machine learning, leading interdisciplinary teams of engineers and clinicians to develop and deploy AI tools which tangibly improve patient outcomes.
Specific areas of interest include:- computer vision / medical image analysis
- language models
- workflow integration / human-AI collaboration
- AI systems design
- clinical deployment and prospective validation of AI tools
- medical ethics of AI
