University of California, San Francisco
I am a PhD student in Computational Precision Health, where I work with Ahmed Alaa and Ziad Obermeyer. I obtained a BA in mathematics from Williams College in 2019, where I had the opportunity to study tropical algebraic geometry 🌴 with Ralph Morisson. After Williams, I worked under Lisa Force, modeling global cancer trends 🌍 with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. I obtained an MA in mathematics from UC Berkeley in 2024. I am grateful for the support of the NSF-GRFP.
Email: frances_dean [at] berkeley [dot] edu
Office: Hawk Hill
Office Hours: None (Fall 2025)
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Current:
- Understanding the impact of cancer and its treatments on cardiovascular health.
- Thinking about causal inference.
- Building deep learning models with ECGs.
- Dean et al. Challenges in determining the global burden of non-malignant central nervous system tumors: an analysis of international incidence and mortality data sources. 2025.
- Kuang*, Dean* et al. Med-Real2Sim: Non-Invasive Medical Digital Twins using Physics-Informed Self-Supervised Learning. 2024.
- Previous researcher with Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, St Jude Children's Research Hospital.
- Previous graduate student Berkeley Department of Mathematics.
Spring 2025: GSI for PH 132: Artificial Intelligence for Health and Healthcare with Ziad Obermeyer.
Summer 2023: Instructor of Record for Math 110: Abstract Linear Algebra.
Spring 2022: GSI for Math 54: Linear Algebra and Differential Equations with Alex Paulin.
Fall 2021: GSI for Math 54: Linear Algebra and Differential Equations with Katrin Wehrheim.