July 28, 2025

Meet our DASH community

DASH is featuring our members and trainees on our newsletter and website to explore the various expertise, interests, and background that each of us brings to our data science and health community.

Name:

Maya Koblanski, Andy Hsu, and Dheyaa Al-Najafi

 

Profile:

UBC MD Students 2027
 

Role in DASH:

Members

 

Introduction:

Meet Maya Koblanski, Andy Hsu, and Dheyaa Al-Najafi, UBC MD Class of 2027 students. In this video, they share their experience working on various data science-related projects, what inspired them to organize a datathon, and how they studied the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for creating medical school exam questions. 

You can learn more about their project under Collaborative Projects on the DASH website.

 

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