Faculty
Dr. Yanshan Wang
Pitt PortalAssociate Professor (Tenured) of Health Informatics and Vice Chair of Research
Director of PittNAIL
Research Interests
Artificial Intelligence, Clinical Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning
Staff
MinGu Kwak
Machine Learning Research Scientist
Research Interests
Clinical Data Warehouse, Clinical Natural Language Processing, Foundation Models, Clinical Research Informatics
Chenyu Li
AI Research Engineer
Research Interests
Clinical Natural Language Processing, Informatics Infrastructure, Translational Research Informatics
Mariano De Leon
Software Developer
Research Interests
Interface Design, Generative AI
Hongjian Wang
AI Research Assistant
Research Interests
Clinical Natural Language Processing
Jay Zeng
GenAI Software Engineer
Research Interests
Software Engineer, Generative AI
PhD Students
Yuelyu Ji
Research Assistant, 2nd Year PhD Student in Information Science
Research Interests
Natural Language Understanding in Biomedical Area, Multi-Model Generation, Reinforcement Learning, Transfer Learning, Large Language Model Deployment
Xizhi Wu
Research Assistant, 1st Year PhD Student in Health Informatics
Research Interests
Graph Neural Networks, Large Language Models, Clinical Decision Support
Hang (Brady) Zhang
Research Assistant, 1st Year PhD Student in Intelligent Systems Program
Research Interests
Neural Networks, Large Language Models, Clinical Natural Language Processing
Master's Students
Undergraduate Students
Yufan Ren
Research Assistant, BS in Health Informatics
Research Interests
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Shiven Verma
Research Assistant, BS in Computer Science
Research Interests
Clinical Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
Praz Nagarajan
Research Assistant, BS in Computer Science
Research Interests
AI Agents, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
Haoyang Sun
Research Assistant, BS in Computer Science, Sichuan University-Pittsburgh Institute
Research Interests
Large Langauge Models
Becky Zhou
Research Assistant, BS in Health Informatics
Research Interests
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Akhil Bodahanapati
Research Assistant, BS in Computer Science
Research Interests
AI, Software Engineer
Alumni
- Sonish Sivarajkumar, PhD Graduate. Current: Senior NLP Research Scientist, Eli Lilly.
- Maneesh Bilalpur, PhD Graduate. Current: TBD.
- Alisa Stolyar, Research Assistant. Current: AION Biosystems.
- Yuxuan Liao, Undergrad RA. Current: Master student at Yale University.
- Yifei Zhao, Summer Research Assistant. Current: Student, NYU.
- Thomas Tam, Research Assistant. Current: University City Science Center.
- Jordan Hilsman, AI Research Engineer. Current: Machine Learning Engineer, Children's healthcare of Atlanta.
- Degan Hao, Machine Learning Research Scientist. Current: Data Scientist, Morgan Stanley.
- David Oniani, Machine Learning Research Scientist. Current: Applied Scientist II, Amazon
- Premkumar Chandrasekar, Research Assistant. Current: MS in Computer Science, Northeastern University.
- Karleigh McCarthy, Research Assistant. Current: Data Analyst, Kaleida Health.
- Hunter Osterhoudt, Research Assistant.
- Kate Tikhonova, Research Project Manager. Current: CS student, WGU.
- Fengyi Gao, Research Assistant. Current: PhD Student, Pitt.
- Ananya Gubbi Mohanbabu, Summer Research Assistant. Current: PhD student, UT Austin
- Samuel Viggiano, Research Assistant. Current: Member of the Board of Advisors at MSHI
- Stephen Shaffran, Research Assistant.
- Chenyu Li, Research Assistant. Current: AI Research Engineer, Pitt.
- Shiven Verma, High School Student Research Assistant at Upper St. Clair High School. Current: Student, Pitt.