Meet the Team
Our team consists of post-docs, students, research scientists, and clinical collaborators. For information about how to join us, see our FAQ section.
Professor
David Sontag
Professor of EECS
My research focuses on advancing machine learning and artificial intelligence, and using these to transform health care.
Graduate Researchers
Rebecca (Peyser) Boiarsky
PhD student
Rebecca’s research interests include developing methods to learn disease progression models and discover new biological insights for precision medicine applications. She works on machine learning algorithms that can utilize clinical and genomic data for this purpose, with a particular focus on single cell RNA-sequencing data and cancer.
Hunter Lang
PhD Student
Hunter’s research focuses on understanding and improving the performance of machine learning algorithms in the wild, with particular applications in MAP inference for graphical models, stochastic optimization, and weak supervision.
Shannon Shen
PhD Student
My research lies at the intersection between NLP and HCI. I am interested in understanding languages in scientific, legal, or clinical text from documents that are authored and used by domain experts. With newly developed NLP approaches, I study how they can enable better Human-AI collaboration to assist experts in these high-stake settings.
Ilker Demirel
PhD Student
Ilker focuses on developing reliable causal inference methods that can leverage rich and heterogeneous sources of data and can be applied in practice.
Master’s Students
Lawrence Shi
MEng Student
My research focuses on building and evaluating foundational models for structured EHR data.
