Department of Biomedical Informatics & Data Science

Re-energized after the holiday break, our department looks forward to the development of educational, research and service programs with high local, regional, national and international impact.

Our staff, trainees and faculty continue to excel on multiple fronts, and the recent launch of the new AI-enabled secure environment for computation at Yale opens doors to new privacy-protecting generative AI research.

I expect 2026 to bring good news about our proposed projects and programs, as well as bring new members to the growing BIDS community.

Thank you all for your partnership and all the great things you do,

Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, MBA, PhD

Waldemar von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics and Data Science; Deputy Dean for Biomedical Informatics; Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Jieming Chen, PhD, has found his full-circle moment. The Yale Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics alumnus now works at Xaira Therapeutics, an AI-driven biotech company. His interdisciplinary training at Yale directly informs his work in AI-powered drug development. Chen shares his journey from New Haven to the forefront of computational therapeutics.

Read Jieming Chen's journey from Yale to AI-driven drug development