Students and alumni of the DEB Health Data Science Master’s program publish manuscripts resulting from research completed during the program’s first two graduating cohorts. Explore publications showcasing the work of HDS students and graduates, and check back as new publications are added.

Evidence Engine: An open-source, human-in-the-loop platform for LLM-assisted evidence synthesis and reviews
August 7, 2026
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
Haile Teshome, MS | Cohort 3

Tau topography subtypes account for clinical heterogeneity and longitudinal trajectories in early-onset Alzheimer's disease
May 18, 2026
Brain Communications
Marlene Lin, MS | Cohort 2

A Systematic Evaluation of Network Subsampling Methods for T-cell Receptor Repertoire Network
May 7, 2026
Statistics Innovation
Hailiang Wu, MS | Cohort 2

A case–control design of environmental exposures and metabolic alterations in early pregnancy loss using non-targeted analysis
April 9, 2026
Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology
Amrita Nagasuri, MS | Cohort 3

Decoding Pain Chronicity in Electronic Health Records: Feasibility of Automated Annotation of Pain Chronicity in Chronic Low Back Pain Patients
March 5, 2026
JMIR Medical Informatics
Simran Kanal, MS | Cohort 1

Assessing the Relationship Between Immunosuppression Exposure and COVID-19 Presence and Severity in Patients with Autoimmune Hepatitis 
February 27, 2026
World Journal of Hepatology
Krish Rai, MS | Cohort 2

Probing Genomic Language Models: Nucleotide GPT and the Role of Pretraining in Learned Representations
February 3, 2026
Briefings in Bioinformatics
Shae McLaughlin, MS | Cohort 2

Does Bilingualism Have a Protective Effect on Cognitive Reserve Amongst FTD Variants?
December 24, 2025
Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Muskaan Sandhu, MS | Cohort 2

The role of bilingualism on functional decline and neurodegeneration in distinct ADRD clinical syndromes
December 19, 2024
Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Ziyang Mai, MS | Cohort 2

Mitochondrial Haplogroups, but not Heteroplasmy, are Associated with Midlife Cognitive Function
October 21, 2025
Alzheimer's & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer's Association
Daphne Yu, MS | Cohort 2

Semantic changes provide unique insights into how clinicians consider palliative care for metastatic disease over time
May 18, 2025
Scientific Reports
Emily Yang, MS | Cohort 1