Team | Yale-LiGHT

Direction

Co-direction = Better direction
Community-led management

Director, Principal Investigator

Annie (Mary-Anne Hartley)

Prof MD Ph.D. MPH

🇿🇦 South African

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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor

🇺🇸 Yale School of Medicine / Biomedical Informatics and Data Science [BIDS]

Visiting Professor

🇨🇭EPFL [Computer science]

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🐕🌴🌍💬📚⛑️Street dogs, tropical medicine, Africa, Languages, Reading, Leveraging academia for humanitarian response

Full bio

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Clinical Director [Child Health]

External @UBern/SwissTPH

Kristina Keitel

MD Ph.D. MPH

🇩🇪 German

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Head, Pediatric Emergency Department

University Hospital Bern

Honorary Lecturer

Swiss TPH

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🐓🧘‍♀️🦚🦜🦩🪲🦋Creatures, Yoga, Colorful creatures, Bugs

Full bio

Clinical Director [Adult medicine]

External @CHUV

Noemie Boillat-Blanco

MD Ph.D. Privat Docent

🇨🇭 Swiss

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Senior consultant and lecturer

Clinical studies [Observational studies to RCTs], Point-of-care tools, Clinical decision support tools, Risk stratification

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⛷️🧳⛵️🦠🏝️💡Ski touring, Sailing, Infectious diseases, Tropical Medicine, Smarter medicine

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Lab manager, Senior Engineer

Jonathan Donz

🇨🇭 Swiss

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Leading Dynamic

EPFL-Africa Academic Exchange Coordinator

Emoji master

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🤺⛰️🌈📊✨National fencing champion, Expert alpine hiking guide, Having a positive impact, Factfulness, Pondering the mysteries of the universe

Lab Manager, Team lead

Alexandre Sallinen

MSc Student

🇫🇷 French

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Leading the Meditron Team

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🍳🧮✏️🧑‍💻🦉Cooking, Math, Drawing, Coding too late at night

Lead Administrator

Akio Tamuro-Ho

🇦🇺Australian 🇳🇿Aotearoa

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🎨✊🏼📖🍊Graphic design, Organizing, Sylvia Wynter, Rewatching Russian Doll

Engineers

AI research Engineer

Eduard Durech

🇸🇰 Slovakian

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Leading Antibiogo (MSF Foundation)

Leading DISCO (ICRC)

AI research Engineer

Maab Elrashid

🇸🇩 Sudanese

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Validation platform for Computer-Assisted Diagnosis of Chest X-rays

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👩🏾‍💻📚✈️🎨 Coding, Reading, Traveling, Arts

AI research Engineer

Klavdiia Naumova

🇷🇺 Russian

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Interpretable federated learning

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🌳🏃🏻‍♀️📗🏞️🧩Eco-friendliness, Running, Popular science books, Visual arts, Being inspired by research challenges

AI research Engineer

Julien Vignoud

🇫🇷 French/Vietnamese

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DISCO: Distributed Collaborative Learning Software Development

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📚👨‍🍳🏔️🔠🎨Avid bookworm, whimsical home cook, zealous hiker, linguistics nerd and arts and craft dilettante

AI research Engineer

Walid Ben Aymen Naceur

🇫🇷 Tunisian

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DISCO: Distributed Collaborative Learning Software Development

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🧗‍♂️🎤😊🍪🌟Bouldering enthusiast, Song cover amateur artist, Making people smile, Pastry artisan, Self-challenger for personal growth

Postdoctoral Researchers

Postdoctoral Researcher

Julia Wolleb

🇨🇭 Swiss

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Deep learning based interpretation of lung ultrasound for TB triage

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🏇💃🌍🎹🧮🐎 Horseback riding, swing dancing, exploring the world, piano, a little crazy about math, and more horses

Postdoctoral Researcher

Tahseen Rabbani

🇺🇸 USA

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Federated learning

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Doctoral Candidates

Ph.D Candidate

Trevor Brokowski

🇺🇸 USA

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Multi Modular Clinical Decision Support Systems

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🏃🏻‍♂️🏊‍♂️🏉🏈🛫🚘🗣️🧑‍💻📚🤔Endurance challenges, Rugby/Football, Global cultural exploration, Coding, Socializing and chatting, Reading, Thinking, Making an impact

MD-Ph.D Candidate*

Veronique Suttels

🇧🇪 Belgian

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Lung Ultrasound in TB-endemic regions [🇧🇯Benin]

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💬🍖🗺️🎶🥁🎤⚽️🐎 Belgium Latin translation champion 2005, Being human, Exploration, Music, Etymologies of jokes, Conference karaoke, Football, Horses

*Co-supervised with Noemie Boillat-Blanco

MD-Ph.D Candidate*

Jacques Du Toit

🇿🇦 South African

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Lung Ultrasound for clinical decision-making in the management of child illness, with randomized control trials in rural South Africa and Tanzania[🇿🇦🇹🇿]

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*Co-supervised with Kristina Keitel

MD-Ph.D Candidate*

Fuyao Joanna Chen

🇨🇳 Chinese

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Multimodal Prostate Cancer Diagnosis

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🧶🍳🎶⚽️💬👩‍🦯Crocheting, Cooking, Chinese traditional arts, Watching soccer, Languages, Archaeology

* Principal supervisor: John Onofrey lab @ Yale

Pre-graduate research scholars

MSc Thesis Project

Antoni-Joan Solergibert

🇪🇸Spanish

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Team Meditron: Accelerating LLM training & inference in Supercomputers

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🔥🚵‍♂️🏃🏽‍♂️💨⚡️⚙️ Addicted to suffering and watching others suffer on two wheels and running. Nervous and impatient, that's why I dedicate myself to optimizing every aspect of my life, even GPUs.

MSc Thesis Project

Tony O'Halloran

🇮🇪Irish

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Humanitarian decision support systems
Working with ICRC to explore Trends in Large Scale Humanitarian Medical Activity Databases

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🚵 🏃🏻‍♂️🏊🏻‍♂️ 📑🍲 Cycling, running, swimming, replicating and reverse-engineering papers, and spending too much money on good food.

MSc Thesis Project*

Kevin Faustini

🇮🇹🇫🇷Italian/French

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Mobile Healthcare designed for Africa

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*Co-supervised with Prof Moustapha Cissé at Kera Health in Senegal 🇸🇳

Pre-grad Intern

Varada Khanna

🇮🇳 Indian

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Clinical Decision Support Systems

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👩‍💻🌏⚕️🎨🎶🧘‍♀️AI in Global Medicine, Painting, Singing, Sahajyoga Meditation

MSc Semester Project

Mohamed Ali Dhraief

🇹🇳 Tunisian

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Automating Antibiogram Interpretation in low-resource settings (MSF foundation)

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💃🌍🎹🎷 Dancing, Travelling the World and Connecting with People through Music!

MSc Semester Project

Bastien Bernath

🇨🇭 Swiss

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Large Language Models for Medicine in Low-resource Settings

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💃🎞🧗 💻Love dancing, fascinated about movies, climbing addict, sometimes I code

MSc Semester Project

Etienne Boisson

🇫🇷 French

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Large Language Models for Medicine in low-resource settings

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🧗🎤🍿🌍🎮🫣 Bouldering, singing, movies, travelling, video games and of course bad jokes

MSc Semester Project

Antoine Tran

🇨🇭 Swiss

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Team Meditron

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MSc Semester Project

Xavier Theimer-Lienhard

🇫🇷 French

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Team Meditron

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🧗🍿🍻🧐📚Climbing stairs and things, Movie nights, Going out, Critical staring, Reading

Inspiration

External Advisors / Muses

Barnacle and Grunt

🇪🇸 Found on the docks of Alicante (Barnacle)

🇿🇦 Roaming the streets of Tshwane (Grunt)

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🍖🧐💣 🛌Meat intake maximization, Critical staring, Zoom bombing, Circadian prolongation

Alumni

Semester Project students

Jeremia Oberle

Sina Fakari

Jan Benzig

Nikita Filipov

Mohamed Ndoye

Felix Grimberg

Jonathan Donz

Kuan Tung

Lilia Ellouz

Mahmoud Said

Nicolas Martinod

Pablo Canas

Andrea Pinto

Antoine Basseto

Ridha Chahed

Tristan Trébaol

Zeineb Sahnoun

Giorgio Mannarini

Francesco Posa

Kseniia Shevchenko

Jalel Zghonda

Asli Yorusun

Dimitar Bajraktarov

Fréderic Berdoz

Marcel Villasevil Torné

Martin Beaussart

Damien Gengler

Zeineb Ayandi

Nina Mainusch

Giorgio Mannarini (again)

Francesco Posa (again)

Paloma Cito

Arnaud Robert

Nicolas Delamaide

Maximo Cravero

Henrik Øberg Myhre

Sofia Blinova

Arina Raileanu

Güneş Başak Özgün

Damien Gengler (again)

Julien Vignoud

Vincent Yuan (again)

Aamir Shakir

Mohamed Ali Dhraieif

MSc Thesis students

Liamarcia Bifano

Felix Grimberg

Hugo Schmutz

Juliane Dervaux

Pablo Canas

Theophile Bian

Tristan Trébaol

Thierry Bossy

David Roschewitz

Aiyu Liu

Amandine Evard

Julien Heitmann

Cécile Trottet

Jonathan Donz

Lynn-Kelly Tchoffa (from AMMI Cameroon)

Idriss Tondji (from AMMI Cameroon)

Amadou Keita (from AMMI Gambia)

Kuan Tung (again)

Daniel Hinjos Garcia

Nina Manusch

Natalija Mitic

Kevin Faustini

Summer interns

Jonathan Donz

Kimia Hemmmatiraid

Farheen Asif

Deeksha Sharma

Mahmoud Hegazy

Kimia Mohsenian

Alaa Anani

Devyani Maladkar

Maram Mohamed (from AMMI Sudan)

Amina Rufai (from AMMI Nigeria)

Amna Elmustafa (from AMMI Sudan)

Interns & Research Assistants

Riccardo de Lutio

Myriam Begel

Lucas Massemin

Thierry Bossy

Mariko Makhmutova

Lilia Ellouz

Deeksha Sharma

Jonathan Donz

Gasser Elbana

Anastasia Popkova

Arina Raileanu

Kimia Mohsenian

Cecile Trottet

Julien Heitmann

Jonathan Doenz

Nina Mainusch

Batuhan Faik

Research Engineers

Amir Rezaie

Liamarcia Bifano (volunteer)

Yale Medicine EPFL Computer Science CMU-Africa Engineering

Direction

Co-direction = Better direction Community-led management

Engineers

Postdoctoral Researchers

Doctoral Candidates

Pre-graduate research scholars

Inspiration

Alumni

Semester Project students

MSc Thesis students

Summer interns

Interns & Research Assistants

Research Engineers

Yale Medicine
EPFL Computer Science
CMU-Africa Engineering

Co-direction = Better direction
Community-led management