Kriti Bhattarai, PhD

Dr. Kriti Bhattarai is a postdoctoral associate in the Clinical NLP lab, led by Dr. Hua Xu, at the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science at Yale School of Medicine. Her research centers on natural language processing with a focus on its applications in healthcare, including the use of large language models for biomedical research. Kriti graduated with a doctoral degree in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis in 2024, where she was advised by Dr. Albert M. Lai.

In addition to her research, Dr. Bhattarai is actively involved in the informatics community as a reviewer for conferences and journals. She also serves as the chair of the Mentorship and Professional Development Subcommittee of the AMIA Student Working Group and participates in other AMIA committees.