PittNAIL |

Faculty

Dr. Yanshan Wang — Dr. Yanshan Wang
Pitt Portal

Associate Professor (Tenured) of Health Informatics and Vice Chair of Research

Principle Investigator of PittNAIL

Staff

MinGu Kwak — MinGu Kwak

Machine Learning Research Scientist

Research Interests

Clinical Data Warehouse, Clinical Natural Language Processing, Foundation Models, Clinical Research Informatics

Chenyu Li — 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

Maneesh Bilalpur — Maneesh Bilalpur

AI Research Scientist

Research Interests

Multimodal AI, Generative AI

Hongjian Wang — Hongjian Wang

AI Research Assistant

Research Interests

Clinical Natural Language Processing

Jay Zeng — Jay Zeng

GenAI Software Engineer

Research Interests

Software Engineer, Generative AI

PhD Students

Yuelyu Ji — Yuelyu Ji

Research Assistant, 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 — Xizhi Wu

Research Assistant, PhD Student in Health Informatics

Research Interests

Graph Neural Networks, Large Language Models, Clinical Decision Support

Hang (Brady) Zhang — Hang (Brady) Zhang

Research Assistant, PhD Student in Intelligent Systems Program

Research Interests

Large Language Models, Reinforcement Learning

Master's Students

Undergraduate Students

Yufan Ren — 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 — 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

Usability Testing

Akhil Bodahanapati — Akhil Bodahanapati

Research Assistant, BS in Computer Science

Research Interests

AI, Software Engineer

Alumni

Sonish Sivarajkumar — Sonish Sivarajkumar

PhD Graduate

CurrentSenior NLP Research Scientist, Eli Lilly

Maneesh Bilalpur — Maneesh Bilalpur

PhD Graduate

CurrentStaff AI Research Scientist, PittNAIL

David Oniani — David Oniani

Machine Learning Research Scientist

CurrentApplied Scientist II, Amazon

Jordan Hilsman — Jordan Hilsman

AI Research Engineer

CurrentMachine Learning Engineer, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

Kate Tikhonova

Research Project Manager

Thomas Tam — Thomas Tam

MS Research Assistant

CurrentUniversity City Science Center

Hunter Osterhoudt — Hunter Osterhoudt

MS Research Assistant

Samuel Viggiano — Samuel Viggiano

MS Research Assistant

CurrentMember of the Board of Advisors at MSHI

Fengyi Gao — Fengyi Gao

MS Research Assistant

CurrentPhD Student in ISP, University of Pittsburgh

Haneef Ahamed — Haneef Ahamed

MS Research Assistant

CurrentData Scientist, Dynamics Inc.

Yifei Zhao

Undergrad Summer Intern

CurrentStudent, NYU

Ananya Gubbi Mohanbabu

MS Summer Intern

CurrentPhD Student, UT Austin

Alisa Stolyar — Alisa Stolyar

Undergrad Research Assistant

CurrentAION Biosystems

Yuxuan Liao

Undergrad Research Assistant

CurrentMS in Health Informatics, Yale University

Premkumar Chandrasekar — Premkumar Chandrasekar

Undergrad Research Assistant

CurrentMS in Computer Science, Northeastern University

Karleigh McCarthy

Undergrad Research Assistant

CurrentData Analyst, Kaleida Health