Professor Profile

Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry

My research focuses on the intersections of bone and joint diseases, cancer and artificial intelligence.

Current & Past Research

Recent Work
Clinical NLP Research Ongoing

Natural Language Processing for Triaging Incoming Referral Letters

Using different models to predict the inflammatory arthrisis disease.

Authors

Kiana Aghakasiri, Mohamed Abdalla, Carrie Ye

Clinical NLP Research

Not What the Doctor Ordered: Surveying LLM-based De-identification and Quantifying Clinical Information Loss

This survey identifies key limitations in current LLM-based de-identification literature, highlighting inconsistent reporting and the risks of altering clinically relevant information while removing patient identifiers.

Authors

Kiana Aghakasiri, Noopur Zambare, JoAnn Thai, Carrie Ye, Mayur Mehta, J Ross Mitchell, Mohamed Abdalla

Multi-cultural de-id

Towards Fair and Efficient De-identification: Quantifying Multi-cultural Generalizability

Evaluating how transformer models generalize clinical de-identification across different formats, cultures, and genders, introducing a benchmark for Mandarin, Hindi, Spanish, and French variants.

Authors

Noopur Zambare, Kiana Aghakasiri, Carissa Lin, Carrie Ye, J Ross Mitchell,Mohamed Abdalla

Long Memory Research

Beyond a Million Tokens: Benchmarking and Enhancing Long-Term Memory in LLMs

An investigation into the architectural limits of LLMs when processing extremely long contexts, proposing methods to improve retrieval accuracy and memory retention beyond traditional token limits.

Authors

Mohammad Tavakoli, Alireza Salemi, Carrie Ye, Mohamed Abdalla, Hamed Zamani, J Ross Mitchell