UCSF AI4ALL Summer Internship Concludes With Inspiring Symposium
The 2026 UCSF AI4ALL summer internship program wrapped up in style with a celebratory final symposium, bringing together student interns, mentors, faculty, and the broader UCSF community to showcase what this remarkable cohort accomplished.
The program introduces motivated San Francisco Unified School District high school students to real-world biometric and health research through the lens of data and computation. This year’s cohort of 12 students, selected from 41 applicants representing Abraham Lincoln, Balboa, and Lowell High Schools, dove headfirst into meaningful research projects alongside UCSF faculty. Through meetings with researchers across the institution and panels with AI4ALL program alumni and industry partners, the interns gained exposure to careers in medicine, public health, data science, and AI.
Notably, a few students are continuing their work with their UCSF research mentors beyond the program, a testament to the depth of connections and projects forged this summer.
The culminating symposium featured student research presentations, a keynote address, and a networking reception. The program was grateful to welcome keynote speaker Jonathan H. Chen, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine and biomedical data science at Stanford University. Through both magic and scientific evidence, he shared his perspective on the transformative potential of AI in medicine and the exciting future of healthcare.
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Thank you to Our Mentors and Lecturers
This program would not be possible without the generosity of the UCSF faculty and researchers who welcomed students into their labs and projects, delivered lectures, and guided them through the challenges and excitement of research. For many students, this was their very first experience with biomedical research. Beyond providing guidance on technical skills, mentors helped students envision themselves as future scientists, physicians, engineers, and innovators.
Lecturers: Ali Mirzazadeh, Jean Feng, Peter Washington, Rohit Vashisht, Augusto Garcia Agundez, Sergio Baranzini, Julia Adler-Milstein, Robert Gallo, Nadav Ahituv
Research Project Mentors: Marina Sirota, Sergio Baranzini, Tomiko Oskotsky, Julia Adler-Milstein, Julian Hong, Pedro Pinheiro-Chagas, Peter Washington, Raman Khanna, Sachin Pendse, Seth Blumberg, Xinran Liu, Nadav Ahituv
Program partners and sponsors: UCSF Division of Clinical Informatics and Digital Transformation (DoC-IT), AI4ALL, UCSF Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute, March of Dimes, UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences, UCSF Center for Science Education and Outreach, Ed
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UCSF AI4ALL is a free program made possible through the generosity of our community. Philanthropic support allows us to provide students with hands-on research experiences, mentorship, and exposure to the rapidly evolving fields of AI and biomedical data science. If you are interested in helping us sustain and expand this program for future cohorts, we would be grateful for your support.