Program Manager
@Google
: Health AI, AI for Social Good, Impact-Driven Research, Innovation, Moonshots.
@UChicago
grad, cancer survivor,
@UeliRutishauser
's wife.
Today is my birthday and also 14 yrs since brain surgery, 33 rounds of radiation plus 4 cycles of high-dose alkylating chemotherapy. It hasn't been easy, but I don't regret the person I've become as a result of what I went through. So deeply grateful. Sending love & light to all!
Congratulations to my brilliant husband
@UeliRutishauser
, on a new paper published in
@Nature
today: "Abstract representations emerge in human hippocampal neurons during inference." Congratulations to Ueli and all involved!!
So proud of my brilliant husband
@UeliRutishauser
on a new paper in
@Nature
(!!) today, "Control of working memory by phase–amplitude coupling of human hippocampal neurons," fresh off the press!!! Congratulations Ueli and team!!!
Today is my 8-year Googleversary! 19-year-old Amy, fresh out of brain surgery and told she might not survive to age 20, would never have dreamed this could happen. I'm so grateful to the countless amount of people who who took a chance on me. Sending love and light to all.
Honored to share our team's latest publication, published in npj Breast Cancer: "Deep learning models for histologic grading of breast cancer and association with disease prognosis" Congratulations to all involved!
Can't believe it's been almost 14 years since I had brain surgery for one of the rarest and most aggressive brain cancers in existence. This photo is from 2009. Cancer survivorship is not easy, but I'm grateful to be alive and surrounded by love. (1/8)
Devastated and heartbroken to hear about the passing of Krishna Shenoy
@shenoystanford
, who was a brilliant scientist and extremely kind, humble, and generous human. Our thoughts and love are with his family. Krishna, you are dearly missed.
Surgery went very well! SO grateful to my amazing and brilliant surgeon who went above and beyond to make me feel safe and cared for, to my hilarious and wise cardiologist for his tremendous advocacy, and above all, to family and friends who supported me every step of the way!❤️
Check out our latest work on AI for fetal ultrasound in under-resourced settings. The models run on-device, without internet connectivity, and provide feedback scores to assist in upleveling lightly trained ultrasound operators in low resource settings.
Check our team's latest Nature Medicine paper which demonstrates how sleep stages, duration, and regularity are all important factors associated with chronic disease development and may inform evidence-based recommendations on healthy sleeping habits.
Surgery went well today! Still feeling pretty sore and nauseated but the worst part is over! My pumpkin costume was too large to bring into the pre-op room but I snuck in my unicorn fairy headband :) Thanks so much again for the very kind wishes and support!!!
Super thrilled to share work from our Health AI team on applying advanced ML methods to generate pre-trained “CXR networks” that can convert CXR images to embeddings to enable the development of CXR models using less data and fewer computational resources.
A new
#GoogleAI
tool reduces the size of datasets needed for radiology models used to predict abnormalities in chest x-rays, making it easier for researchers to build custom models that can help in disease detection.
Absolutely delighted to share our team's latest
@Nature
paper, on building better pangenomes to improve the equity of genomics. A consortium of over 100 scientists, including our team at Google, announced the world’s first human pangenome reference!!
Hot off the press: Our
@GoogleAI
team's latest
@Radiology_AI
paper, which shows how AI assistance can significantly improve specificity in lung cancer screening. Congrats to all involved!
Thank you so much for everything that you do,
@michelle_monje
: for your brilliance, your kindness, generosity of spirit, and so much more. You are a true role model. On behalf of brain cancer patients everywhere, thank you for being an incredible advocate and healer to all of us!
It is the 15-year anniversary of our first (early post-mortem)
#DIPG
tissue donation… my lab has since received 106 such tumor donations💔. So today, we placed 106 roses, one in honor of each child, and planted 106 seeds, to represent the knowledge gained from each.
At our wedding, the NoMad LA surprised me and
@UeliRutishauser
w/a giant carafe of my fave yuzi iced tea. This year, Eleven Madison Park gave us a framed drawing (& other delights) at my 14-year cancer-freeversary dinner. Not a dry eye in the room. So much love and gratitude. ❤️
Partnering with nonprofits and volunteers, Project Euphonia is a
@GoogleAI
research effort to help people with speech impairments communicate faster and gain independence →
#io19
Check out some cool cases studies from our AI for Social Good team! Very honored to have worked on several of these projects with some incredible partners.
Super proud of my dear friend and colleague Viren Jain
@stardazed0
on this incredible achievement!!! Viren is one of the most brilliant and kindest people I know. It's such a thrill to see this amazing work, and the impact it has on the field of neuroscience, out in the world!!
This year is the 10th anniversary of the Google Research’s Connectomics team! In celebration, today with
@MCB_Harvard
we’re publishing a 1.4 petabyte human brain connectome with 57k cells and 150M synapses in
@ScienceMagazine
→ &
@UeliRutishauser
I appreciate -- with all of my heart -- my incredibly supportive family, friends, doctors, and colleagues who carried me through this. Very grateful for another rotation around the sun!
Received an award at work for "best person to be stuck with on a deserted island." Truly one of the greatest honors of my life. Also love how my husband's first reaction was "Hmm. Seems appropriate. But is this for real or a joke?"
#humbled
Surgery on Tuesday (Halloween)! Will have my own version of a pumpkin carving, I guess. Asked my surgeon if it's socially acceptable to a wear a costume to check-in for pre-op and they said "I would be disappointed if you did not."
Still remember the first time
@pqnelson
,
@eerichka
, and I met to discuss the possibility of forming this coalition, and the many hopes we had for what could emerge from these collaborations. Thrilled to see this work come to fruition, and very grateful for the strong support!!
Nice to see
@Google
,
@Amazon
,
@Microsoft
,
@Meta
,
@Apple
, and
@uiuc
all collaborating to improve speech recognition for those with diseases that affect speech such as ALS, Parkinson's, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome and other diseases.
Check out our
@GoogleAI
team's latest publication "Robust and data-efficient generalization of self-supervised machine learning for diagnostic imaging" published in Nature Biomedical Bioengineering
@natBME
!! Congratulations to all involved!!
@UeliRutishauser
Still remember the day I unironically declared to my neuro-oncologist: "Dude, this is my first brain tumor!" and realized I may indeed be living one long episode of SNL and/or Curb Your Enthusiasm, spliced in with moments which would otherwise only exist in a Wes Anderson film.
@UeliRutishauser
@Nature
And here's a beautifully written News and Views piece by the incredible
@zivwilliamslab
about the paper. Thank you Ziv, for such an eloquent writeup summarizing the impact of the work!
Skin biopsy came back benign! Am reminded of one of my favorite quotes, from Deconstructing Harry: "The most beautiful words in the English language are not 'I love you,' but 'It's benign.'"
MRI Day today! Even though I've had over 3 dozen MRIs since age 19, always manage to get anxious before each one. But the promise of sushi afterwards will hopefully carry me through.
Check out our team's latest paper, "Health equity assessment of machine learning performance (HEAL): a framework and dermatology AI model case study."" Congratulations to all involved!
Congratulations to the brilliant
@MarleneKWolfe
, whose report on "Use of Wastewater for Mpox Outbreak Surveillance in California" was published in
@NEJM
today!!! Super proud of Marlene and everyone involved in this amazing work!!!
You know you're a PgM when you ask your husband who is now a full professor to run an errand and unconsciously find yourself saying: "If you're going to accept the action item, then you have to commit to seeing it through." 😅
So honored to have played a small role in this publication. Even more honored and grateful for the tremendous support we have received from the team as well as Alphabet leadership throughout the years on our AI for social good and societal impact projects!
AI is helping accelerate progress on the UN Sustainable Development Goals – advancing health, education, climate action, and more. Read our latest research brief:
#AIforSDGs
#SDGs
Excited to share our team's latest
@JAMANetworkOpen
paper which shows how AI models can empower trained ultrasonography operators to estimate gestational age with higher accuracy. Congrats to all involved!!
My heart is heavy. Sam was a wonderful person to work with, a fierce advocate for both me and my family when we faced health crises, and most treasured mentor and friend. It was an honor to have known you, Sam. I will miss you dearly.
Dr. Sam Gambhir was one of the most kind, thoughtful, and brilliant people I’ve known.
He passed away yesterday after a battle with cancer, the same day he received
@Stanford
’s highest honor.
With a very heavy heart, we wish him peace.
#DetectCancerEarly
@CanaryCenter
@GrailBio
Absolutely thrilled to share our 2023 year-in-review post about all the exciting research initiatives across Google!! It's been a joy and honor to have worked on several of these projects with wonderful and mission-driven colleagues!!
2023 has been an exciting year for research across Google. Today
@JeffDean
,
@demishassabis
, and James Manyika highlight some of this year's exciting research across
#GenerativeAI
, language models, quantum, health,
#ResponsibleAI
, and more! Check it out at
"She's always had a morbid fear of death...there's nothing to worry about. Because if you've ever had a colonoscopy, they give you an injection and you're out! And it's black and peaceful and nice... Death is like a colonoscopy. The problem is that life is like the prep day." -WA
Had a lovely birthday yesterday. As a cancer survivor who was told I wouldn’t survive past 19, I know that every birthday is a privilege. Grateful to be in remission. Here's a beautiful song written by my dear friends Seamus & Will after I finished chemo.
Check out our team's latest paper, "Towards Conversational Diagnostic AI" which describes AMIE (Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer), an LLM-based AI system optimized for diagnostic medical reasoning and dialogue. Congratulations to
@vivnat
and all involved!!
Superiority of large language model
#AI
randomized vs 20 primary care physicians on 149 case scenarios for
diagnostic accuracy, conversation, communication, clinical exam skills, empathy, & management plan
@taotu831
@alan_karthi
@vivnat
@GoogleDeepMind
Have a Cancer Genetics and Prevention evaluation in the morning. Anxious but acutely grateful to be in remission, and very much appreciate the many advances in genetic testing that have occurred since I was first diagnosed with cancer in 2009.
Check out our team's latest publication in
@NatureMedicine
, "Generative models improve fairness of medical classifiers under distribution shifts." Congratulations to all involved!!
Our new work in
@NatureMedicine
Using generative models in path, radiology and derm - we can create synthetic training data to ⬆️ AI fairness & robustness, including underrepresented groups. Work w/ a great team
@GoogleDeepMind
@GoogleAI
@GoogleHealth
Delighted to share our latest Health AI launch: MedLM, a suite of medically tuned models that combine the power of large AI models with medical knowledge!
Absolutely delighted and overjoyed to share this excellent review written by
@UeliRutishauser
and team which was published today in Nature Reviews Neuroscience
@NatRevNeurol
!!!
The 2023 Google Environmental Report PDF linked from the blog post below contains lots of details about our work on sustainability, use of clean energy, product changes to enable Google users to make more sustainable choices, etc.
PDF:
Blog post: ⬇️
"She's always had a morbid fear of death...I tell her there's nothing to worry about. If you've ever had a colonoscopy, they give you an injection and you're out! It's black and peaceful and nice. Death is like a colonoscopy. The problem is that life is like the prep day." -WA
Part 8 is out, posted by
@greg_corrado
&
@ymatias
on behalf of many, covering our work on AI and ML for healthcare-related applications, including medical imaging, ML in mobile healthcare settings, & the use of generative models like LLMs.
Congrats to
@UeliRutishauser
on his paper and data release, published in Scientific Data!! "A NWB-based dataset and processing pipeline of human single-neuron activity during a declarative memory task"
Delighted to announce our latest paper by first author
@the_technetium
-- continuing our quest to decipher the role of pre-SMA in decision making. We examine the dynamics of encoding of values of available options vs. the choice, both of which were encoded in pre-SMA.
It's been a week! Some highs (work is going great!), some lows (health issues, health insurance issues, water damage), but overall really grateful for all the support from colleagues, friends, and family. Much love to everyone, and please stay well and take good care.
Applications are open for the
@Google
Academic Research Award Program, a new program that supports academic research in computing and technology that makes a positive difference in the world!! Learn more and apply by July 17 at
Congrats
@UeliRutishauser
and
@ClaytonPMosher
whose work on stop neurons and how they regulate movement was published in the journal Neuron and also featured in Cedars-Sinai's Discoveries magazine!
Cedars-Sinai investigators have solved part of a longstanding mystery. "This first-in-human study identifies the underlying
#brain
processes required for stopping movements," notes Cedars-Sinai's
@UeliRutishauser
.
Areas with fewer trees are more vulnerable to climate change. Google Research launched Tree Canopy Insights on Google's Environmental Insights Explorer (EIE) to help fight extreme heat — learn how it’s being used in Austin, TX to tackle climate inequity →
To all my dear friends, please take good care of yourselves and your families. Wishing you health, joy, good food, and most importantly, good humor, always.
So thrilled to share the launch of Google AI Essentials, a self-paced course designed to help people across roles and industries learn AI skills to boost productivity! No programming skills or other experience required. Learn more and enroll at !!!
Whether you’re planning an event or drowning in emails, AI tools can help you. Learn how with Google AI Essentials, a new course from
#GrowWithGoogle
that teaches you essential skills from AI to Z, to help boost productivity →
And thank you
@GregSegal613
and
@JenEricksonDC
for being intrepid advocates and champions for organ transplant reform. Your persistence, perseverance, and profound care and support for transplant patients is absolutely inspiring and deeply appreciated.
Scenes from the Ukraine border tonight: This is the busy Medyka pedestrian crossing & Korczowa accommodation center. As families crossed into Poland, the
@WCKitchen
team served up hot chicken stew, soup, tea & apple pie! THANK YOU for making this work possible 🙏
#ChefsForUkraine
It's been a tough month. Water damage to our home resulting in mold and on Sunday, a driver hit my mom's car very badly. Grateful everyone is safe (though my immunosuppressed dad did develop a fungal infection and my mom is still shaken). When it rains, it pours, and it molds...
Congrats to
@UeliRutishauser
and team on a new paper, "Single-neuron correlate of epilepsy-related cognitive deficits in visual recognition memory in right mesial temporal lobe," published in the journal Epilepsia!!!
Interested in mechanisms of epilepsy-related cognitive deficits in humans? We show specific effects of SOZ in right MTL on visual recognition memory behaviorally (ROC slope but not AUC change) and neuronally (only memory selective cells in rMTL affected).
Still navigating a complex medical situation, but now with a good plan in place to deal with it, and was reminded of a passage from one of my favorite books:
Medicine is inherently multimodal.
Thrilled to share Med-PaLM M, the first demonstration of a generalist multimodal biomedical AI system with a stellar team
@GoogleAI
@GoogleDeepMind
@GoogleHealth
Paper:
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We made it!!! Best wishes for the upcoming year (and always). And as the guy who held the door open for me at our local boba shop said to me the other day: Stay blessed!!!
BEYOND proud and happy for
@UeliRutishauser
and team on the publication of a new paper: "The geometry of domain-general performance monitoring in the human medial frontal cortex" in
@ScienceMagazine
!!!!! Congratulations to all involved!
(1/8) Delighted to announce our new results on medial frontal cortex’s role in performance monitoring and cognitive control! Neurons formed domain-general representations of errors, conflict, and conflict probability, while preserving task-specific info.
Project Relate is a beta Android application that aims to help people with non-standard speech communicate more easily with others. Learn how George and Adwoa use this application to overcome communication obstacles and make their voices heard →
Check out our team's latest paper, "Identifying COVID-19 Vaccine Deserts and Ways to Reduce Them: A Digital Tool to Support Public Health Decision-Making," published in
@AJPH
!! Congrats to all involved!
Really exciting to see continued progress on connectomics-related work done by
@GoogleAI
researchers in collaboration with
@HHMIJanelia
. Read blog post below.
Videos:
Full preprint for details:
Regardless of what happens to this platform, just wanted to express my gratitude for the friendships and support I've received here - the scientific/clinical COVID response community has truly been a lifeline during the darkest times of the pandemic - much love to y'all.
@JeffDean
@UeliRutishauser
Thank you very much
@JeffDean
for this incredibly nice note. I am so grateful for your tremendous support, advocacy, and kindness throughout all these years. I appreciate you from the bottom of my heart!!!!!!!
Wrote this at age 19 after finishing cancer treatment. I write about radiation, choir practice with OK Go, Wasserstein’s “Uncommon Women and Others,” and dreams of becoming 30 and amazing. I turned 30 in March - not yet amazing - but optimistic for 40.
Ueli Rutishauser just published another paper in Current Biology, entitled "Encoding of target detection during visual search by single neurons in the human brain." Congrats Ueli!!
How can AI be used to tackle some of humanity’s biggest challenges?
Keep an eye on this thread for exciting updates in this area, shared by Kat Chou, our Sr. Director of Research and Innovation. (1/5)
Oncology check-up this week (every 9 months)! A small price to pay given my 1-year survival prognosis in 2009, but even after 40+ MRIs since then, it somehow doesn't get much easier. Grateful to be in remission (yet still haven't figured out how to properly tie a hospital gown.)
Researchers funded by the BRAIN Initiative have identified two types of cells in our brains that are involved in organizing discrete memories based on when they occurred. The study was led by
@UeliRutishauser
(
@CedarsSinai
)
#studyBRAIN
Congratulations to the amazing
@davesteiner
(one of the best pathologists I have the honor of knowing and working with) and Rory Pilgrim (one of my favorite PgM colleagues) and team on this incredible milestone!
With everything going on in the world, I wanted to send love and gratitude to all my family, friends, and colleagues who have been such beacons of support, joy, sources of (delightful) silliness, and for making the day-to-day so full of joy and light. Have a great long weekend!
Check out our team's latest work, joint with collaborators
@MayoClinic
, where we built a state-of-the-art AI that automates one of the most labor-intensive steps in the radiotherapy planning process: contouring of organs at risk of damage during treatment.
Excited to share that the Google COVID-19 Open Data team's latest paper, "COVID-19 Open Data: a global-scale spatially granular meta-dataset for coronavirus disease" was recently published in the journal Scientific Data!
Our intrepid colleagues in the Connectomics Team
@GoogleAI
are embarking on an extraordinary new project to map the mouse brain! Congratulations to the brilliant
@stardazed0
,
@michalj
, and collaborators on driving this very cool and impactful work.
Today we discuss our partnership with the National Institutes of Health (
@NIH
) and several other collaborators to expand the frontiers of connectomics by mapping a small fraction (2-3%) of the mouse brain over the next five years. Learn more at:
"Direct financial support and expertise to help increase the production capacity for personal protective equipment (PPE) and lifesaving medical devices." COVID-19: $800+ million to support small businesses and crisis response
@google
@GoogleHealth
Super proud of our
@GoogleAI
team's contributions to this amazing collaboration and achievement, published today in
@Nature
. Congratulations to all involved, and thank you so much
@Magda_Skipper
for your kind support as always!!
Hot off the press! Congratulations to
@UeliRutishauser
and colleagues on a new publication on human single neuron recordings during working memory tasks, published today in
@ScientificData
!
Super thrilled to share our team's COVID-19 dataset repository, which aggregates data on COVID-19 and its covariates for over 20,000 locations and from over 285 data sources!
The COVID-19 Open Data Repository is one of the most comprehensive collections of up-to-date COVID-19-related info from more than 20K locations worldwide to help public health officials, researchers and policymakers in understanding & managing the virus:
Check out this video highlighting some of our work
@Google
in AI for Social Good. It's been an honor and privilege to be involved in these projects with some incredible, mission-driven colleagues!!