Frances (Franny) Dean
Department of Computational Precision Health, UC Berkeley, UCSF
About
I am a PhD student advised by Ahmed Alaa and Ziad Obermeyer.
Email: frances_dean [at] berkeley [dot] edu
Office: Hawk Hill
Office Hours: Thursdays 4:30 - 5:30 BWW 1208 (Spring 2025)
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Research
Current:
- Developing interpretable machine learning models for predicting long-term health outcomes after cancer survivorship.
- Understanding the impact of cancer and its treatments on cardiovascular health using deep learning and ECG data.
- Previous researcher with Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, St Jude Children's Research Hospital.
- Previous graduate student Berkeley Department of Mathematics.
Teaching
Spring 2025: GSI for PH 132: Artificial Intelligence for Health and Healthcare with Ziad Obermeyer.
Summer 2023: Instructor 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.