- Managing Director, Agile Metabolic Health, College of Computing, Data Science and Society (CDSS)
- Founding Director, Innovate For Health Initiative
- Principal Investigator, UC Berkeley
- Affiliated Researcher, Center for Intelligent Imaging (Ci2), UCSF
Dr. Maryam Vareth is the Chief Health Technology Officer at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) and Managing Director of the Agile Metabolic Health at UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS). With a career spanning over 15 years at the intersection of engineering, data science, and healthcare, Dr. Vareth drives meaningful advancements in health technology to enhance patient care outcomes.
Before her current role, Dr. Vareth was the Research Lead in Health & Life Sciences at BIDS, where she also served as Co-Director and Principal Investigator (PI) on several key projects. In 2019, she co-founded the Innovate For Health (I4H) Initiative and led the development of the Data Science Health Innovation Fellowship Program at BIDS, in collaboration with UCSF, Johnson & Johnson Innovation, and Janssen Research & Development.
Collaborating closely with faculty leads, Dr. Vareth directs the development and integration of the JupyterHealth open platform into healthcare applications to enhance clinical decision-making and streamline the application of algorithms to real-world datasets – a key component of the CDSS Open Platforms Powering Science and Society (OPPSS) initiative. She also co-leads the BIDS-XD initiative, promoting cross-disciplinary collaboration and championing the exchange of knowledge across scientific fields.
Dr. Vareth received her BS and MS training in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, focusing on signal processing and wireless communication, where she was awarded the prestigious Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholarship. She completed her Ph.D. in Bioengineering through a joint program between UC Berkeley and UCSF, supported by a National Science Foundation Fellowship. Her doctoral research on improving Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Imaging (MRSI) for brain tumor management earned her the Margaret Hart Surbeck Endowed Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Research. Her postdoctoral studies at UCSF’s Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging further honed her expertise in multimodal integration of medical imaging technologies, furthering data-driven patient care strategies through enhanced diagnostic accuracy and personalized treatment planning.
Dr. Vareth has held roles in both academia and industry, including positions at National Semiconductor, IMEC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the Space Sciences Lab, as well as an Associate Researcher at UCSF’s Surbeck Laboratory of Advanced Imaging. Throughout her career, Dr. Vareth has held progressive leadership roles, leading multidisciplinary research teams in developing methodologies and tools aimed at clinical translation, emphasizing the full lifecycle of AI from conceptualization to implementation, thus advancing precision medicine and interdisciplinary health research.
