About me
I am a Research Fellow at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) where I work with my mentor Dr. Dina Demner-Fushman. I have a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) where my advisor was Dr. Kirk Roberts. I was also a doctoral fellow at the UTHealth CPRIT (Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas) Innovation in Cancer Prevention Research Training Program. I completed MS in Computer Science from the University of Florida working with Dr. Daisy Zhe Wang. Prior to my graduate studies, I also had three years of industry experience working in companies like Microsoft.
I am actively working in the area of clinical natural language processing (NLP) with a focus on question answering (QA) from electronic health records (EHRs) and clinical note generation.
News
- We are organizing a shared task on grounded question answering from electronic health records, Arch-EHR QA (“Archer”), as part of the BioNLP Workshop at ACL 2025.
- I delivered a talk at the Biomedical Informatics & Data Science (BIDS) Grand Rounds at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in December, 2024 on progress note generation.
- Our paper, Toward Relieving Clinician Burden by Automatically Generating Progress Notes using Interim Hospital Data, was presented at the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium 2024 at San Francisco, California, USA.
- Our work, A Privacy-preserving Approach to Ingest Knowledge from Proprietary Web-based to Locally Run Models for Medical Progress Note Generation, was presented at the Workshop on Privacy in Natural Language Processing co-located with Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2024 at Bangkok, Thailand.
- Our paper, quEHRy: a question answering system to query electronic health records, was published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association in 2023.