Jul 10, 2025 🎓 Successfully defended my Ph.D. at UIC with the dissertation “Temporal Reasoning in Clinical Narratives: From Information Extraction to Early Disease Detection”. I am deeply grateful to my advisor, committee, collaborators, and my family.
May 15, 2025 🎉 Excited to share that our paper, “Temporal Relation Extraction in Clinical Texts: A Span-based Graph Transformer Approach,” has been accepted to ACL 2025! 📄
May 02, 2025 🚨 Our research on gender bias in open-source AI models was featured in The Register!
Jan 23, 2024 :confetti_ball: Thrilled to share that our paper Bridging or Breaking: Impact of Intergroup Interactions on Religious Polarization has been accepted at the ACM Web Conference 2024! Also presenting my thesis research “Temporal Knowledge Graph Extraction and Modeling across Multiple Documents for Health Risk Prediction” at the PhD symposium! :hourglass: Big thanks to NSF for the conference travel award! :raised_hands:
Nov 05, 2023 Our paper Sequential Representation of Sparse Heterogeneous Data for Diabetes Risk Prediction is accepted in IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) 2023. Thanks NSF for the conference travel grant! :tada:
Jul 12, 2023 :newspaper: Our findings from It’s All in the Name: A Character-Based Approach to Infer Religion are covered by popular news outlet: The Hindu :wave:
Sep 06, 2022 Presenting a lightning talk at NSF-NIH Smart and Connected Health workshop as a student PI. A great experience!