Hiba Ahsan
I am a PhD student at Northeastern University in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences, advised by Byron Wallace. I work in the clinical natural language processing domain. My research looks into evaluating LLMs in healthcare and better understanding their problematic behaviors.
I graduated with a Masters in Computer Science from UMass Amherst in 2023. Prior to Masters, I was a Research Engineer in the Advertising team at Microsoft IDC where I worked on improving the relevance of sponsored search results. I hold a Bachelors in Information Technology from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India.
I am looking for postdoc positions for Fall 2026.
news
| Nov 05, 2025 | Our preprint on whether SAEs can help reveal and mitigate racial bias in LLMs for healthcare is out. |
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| Oct 24, 2025 | Our work on elucidating mechanisms of demographic bias was featured by Ai2. |
| Aug 20, 2025 | Our paper Elucidating Mechanisms of Demographic Bias in LLMs for Healthcare has been accepted at EMNLP (Findings) 2025! |
| May 05, 2024 | I will be interning at Codametrix this summer. |
| Apr 04, 2024 | Our paper Retrieving Evidence from EHRs with LLMs: Possibilities and Challenges has been accepted at CHIL 2024! |