Biography
Cyrus Ayubcha is a graduate student pursuing both an M.D. degree at Harvard Medical School and a Ph.D. degree under the guidance of Dr. Albert Hofman and Dr. Andrew Beam at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. During his undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Cyrus worked with Dr. Abass Alavi at the Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiology in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. While completing his graduate studies at the University of Oxford, his thesis was titled "Medicaid Expansion Saves Lives in Cities: A Generalized Synthetic Control Study of Urban Mortality in the American Northeast."
His current research lies at the intersection between medicine and technology. Specifically, he is interested in developing geometric machine-learning algorithms that integrate radiomic and genomic data in the context of neurological disease. Cyrus remains committed to the pursuit of methodological innovations in the field of artificial intelligence, as well as public policy initiatives aimed at promoting healthcare and economic equity.
Education
Harvard Chan School of Public Health:
Doctor of Philosophy in Epidemiology with Secondary Field in Computational Science and Engineering
Harvard Medical School:
Doctor of Medicine
University of Oxford, St Catherine's College:
Master of Science, Distinction
University of Pennsylvania:
Bachelor of Arts, Summa Cum Laude