Curriculum Vitae
Education
- PhD in Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 2025
- MS in Bioinformatics, Northeastern University, 2021
- BS in Psychology, Haverford College, 2019
Experience
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Postdoctoral Researcher – Department of Computer Science at University of Copenhagen (September 2025 - current)
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NLP & LLM Real World Data Scientist – Norstella (April 2025 - August 2025)
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PhD Student – Mount Sinai School of Medicine (August 2021 - April 2025)
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MS Student – Department of Bioinformatics at Northeastern University (Janurary 2020 - June 2021)
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Lab Manager and Technician – Brenhouse Lab in the Department of Neuroscience at Northeastern University (June 2019 - June 2021)
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Thesis Student – Under mentorship of Dr. Laura Been at Haverford College (2019)
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Student Researcher – Under mentorship of Dr. Seth Scholer at Vanderbilt University Children's Hospital (2018)
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Student Fellow – Surgical Outcomes Center for Kids (SOCKs) at Vanderbilt University Children's Hospital (2016-2017)
Skills and Interests
- Leveraging real world data (mostly electronic health records)
- Prompting large language models (MedGemma, Llama, GPT, Mistral, and more by the day) for inforation extraction, sentiment analysis, and other tasks
- Working with clinicians to ensure clinically relevant research
- Invoking community based approaches when possible to minimize downstream harms of AI in medicine (S/O to Queer in AI)
- Labor organizing
- AI policy
Contact Information
Email: alissa.valentine@di.ku.dk