Hiba Ahsan

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I am a PhD student at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University, advised by Silvio Amir and Byron Wallace. I work in the clinical natural language processing domain. My research looks into extracting information from patient notes with minimal supervision.

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.

news

Apr 04, 2024 Our paper Retrieving Evidence from EHRs with LLMs: Possibilities and Challenges has been accepted at CHIL 2024!
Jun 24, 2023 Presented our work, On the Difficulty of Disentangling Race in Representations of Clinical Notes, at “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Better” Lightning Talks, CHIL 2023.
May 24, 2022 I am returning to Neflix Research as a Research Intern this summer!
Nov 01, 2021 Presented an extended abstract on Improving Search Results Ranking Using a Knowledge Graph in the Workshop on Knowledge Injection in Neural Networks at CIKM 2021.
Aug 06, 2021 Presented MIMIC-SBDH: A Dataset for Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health at MLHC 2021!

selected publications

  1. Retrieving Evidence from EHRs with LLMs: Possibilities and Challenges
    Hiba Ahsan , Denis Jered McInerney , Jisoo Kim , and 4 more authors
    In Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning , 2024