Faculty

Dr. Yanshan Wang
Pitt PortalAssistant Professor 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
PhD Students

Sonish Sivarajkumar
Pitt PortalResearch Assistant, 4th Year PhD Student in Intelligent Systems Program
Research Interests
Clinical Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning

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

Maneesh Bilalpur
Pitt PortalResearch Assistant, 4th Year PhD Student in Intelligent Systems Program
Research Interests
Machine Learning for Healthcare, Multimodal Dialogue systems

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

Thomas Tam
Research Assistant, MS in Public Policy and Data Analytics
Research Interests
Clinical Natural Language Processing, Generative Language Model Evaluation and Deployment, Deep Learning

Wenhe Ma
Research Assistant, MS in Computer Engineering
Research Interests
Deep Learning
Undergraduate Students

Alisa Stolyar
Research Assistant, BS in Data Science
Research Interests
Data Mining, Clinical Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Yufan Ren
Research Assistant, BS in Health Informatics
Research Interests
Clinical Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Yuxuan Liao
Research Assistant, BS in Health Informatics
Research Interests
Precision Rehabilitation, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Shiven Verma
Research Assistant, BS in Computer Science
Research Interests
Clinical Natural Language Processing, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
Alumni
- 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.
- Fengyi Gao, Research Assistant.
- Ananya Gubbi Mohanbabu, Graduate Research Assistant at UT Austin
- Samuel Viggiano, Member of the Board of Advisors at MSHI
- Stephen Shaffran
- Chenyu Li
- Shiven Verma, High School Student at Upper St. Clair High School