Monica Agrawal
monicaagrawal.bsky.social
Monica Agrawal
@monicaagrawal.bsky.social
Asst prof at Duke University. Co-founder at LayerHealth.

ML and NLP for healthcare.
PhD MIT, BS/MS Stanford. She/her.
Excited to be at #ICML2025 to present our paper on 'pragmatic misalignment' in (deployed!) RAG systems: narrowly "accurate" responses that can be profoundly misinterpreted by readers.

It's especially dangerous for consequential domains like medicine! arxiv.org/pdf/2502.14898
July 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🩺 General LLMs perform well on clinical NLP tasks, even though they never see EHR data. How?

🚀 Our CHIL 2025 paper, led by my PhD student Furong Jia, probes the pre-training datasets behind popular LLMs to investigate how online medical sources drive performance.

📄 Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.15024
July 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I am recruiting PhD students at Duke!

Please apply to Duke CS or CBB if you are interested in developing new methods and paradigms for NLP/LLMs in healthcare.
For details, see here: monicaagrawal.com/home/researc....
November 18, 2024 at 8:16 PM