People

Each name links to a page the member maintains, with more about their work.

Faculty

Kevin Lybarger

Assistant Professor

AI and natural language processing for healthcare, spanning clinical informatics, health-oriented conversational agents, and public health.

Interests: clinical NLP and information extraction, health-oriented conversational agents, public health informatics, information integrity

Students

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  Md. Mushfiqur Rahman

  PhD Student

  Works on how language models handle linguistic diversity, on patient-interaction simulation, and on text simplification.

  Interests: linguistic diversity in language models, patient-interaction simulation, text simplification

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  Hadeel Elyazori

  PhD Student

  Works on NLP for clinical settings and correctional systems, with a focus on motivational interviewing and patient engagement.

  Interests: clinical NLP, motivational interviewing, patient engagement, correctional system informatics

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  Mohammad Sabik Irbaz

  PhD Student

  Works on NLP for medical applications, including text simplification, style transfer, and clinical machine learning.

  Interests: text simplification, text style transfer, clinical machine learning

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  Saadat Hasan Khan

  PhD Student

  Works on predictive language models and on applying AI to real-world problems in healthcare, including medical conversational agents.

  Interests: predictive language models, medical conversational agents, retrieval-augmented generation

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  Md Tanvir Rouf Shawon

  PhD Student

  Works on LLM-based patient simulation and on safe, clinically reliable medical conversation systems.

  Interests: LLM-based patient simulation, medical conversation systems, multi-agent frameworks and evaluation