Brandon Ye

I'm a senior at the University of Southern California, where I study Quantitative Biology with a minor in AI. I'm also pursuing a concurrent master's degree in Quantitative and Computational Biology.

Currently, I'm an undergraduate research fellow at USC CSI-Cancer, where I also co-lead the CURE program. I'm advised by Jeremy Mason and Peter Kuhn and my work is supported by the USC Provost's Undergraduate Research Fellowship and Goldwater Scholarship.

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I'm interested in leveraging computation to advance medicine, especially in the domains of surgical decision-making and health equity. My research seeks to use multimodal data to develop more robust, interpretable, and equitable ways to model and treat disease. I explore this through patient-level cancer prediction models under conditions of data scarcity, blood filtration therapies for cancer, and data collection methods for homelessness research. Selected papers are highlighted.

We morphologically profile circulating tumor cells filtered from the blood of pancreatic cancer patients and show that blood filtration is a promising therapy in cancer care.

We train an existing binary recurrence classifier for UTUC with a supplementary bladder cancer dataset to improve its performance and clinical applicability.

We show that the liquid biopsy is valuable in understanding the biology of UTUC as a potential companion diagnostic for clinical decision-making.

We hurt our fingers extracting DNA from terrestrial soil phages. A fun culmination of efforts from BISC 121 and BISC 221 lab section at USC :)

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