Dave Van Veen

PhD Candidate
Stanford University

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I’m passionate about leveraging emerging technology to make healthcare more equitable, efficient, and patient-centric.

Currently I am a final-year PhD candidate in Stanford’s Electrical Engineering (EE) Dept advised by John Pauly and Akshay Chaudhari.
My research includes two major threads:

  1. developing foundation models to improve healthcare outcomes
  2. designing machine learning (ML) algorithms for inverse problems in computational imaging and signal processing

bio

Prior to beginning his PhD, Dave spent two years as a research scientist at a Bay Area start-up and the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine & Imaging (AIMI) center at Stanford. Previously he earned a MS in EE at the University of Texas conducting ML research under Alex Dimakis and Sriram Vishwanath, during which he also served as a Data Science for Social Good fellow in London. Before that Dave earned a BS in EE at the University of Wisconsin, where he founded and led a 150-person organization to build a hyperloop pod for SpaceX.

news

Sep 2024 Successfully defended my PhD thesis entitled Data-Efficient Machine Learning for Image Reconstruction and Text Summarization in Biomedicine.
Jun 2024 Our lab is proud to release two vision language foundation models: CheXagent for chest x-rays and Merlin for computed tomography.
Mar 2024 Presented our LLM work at the Apple ML Health Workshop, the University of Oxford, and the London School of Economics.
Feb 2024 Nature Medicine published our LLM paper on clinical text summarization!
Jan 2024 Began Stanford Ignite at the Graduate School of Business and joined the 2024 cohort of Cardinal Venture’s Technical Founders!