Peter Szolovits’ Students -- Theses Supervised

I have had the privilege since 1974 of working with some of the world’s best students at MIT and elsewhere in computer science and biomedical informatics. Below, in chronological order and categorized by thesis level and my role, are those students. Titles link to their theses if they are available on-line.

Theses marked “in progress” have formal proposals accepted by their Department, whereas “exploring” gives the topic a student is investigating but without a proposal in place.

Doctoral Theses, Supervised

  1. Swartout, William R. “Producing Improved Explanations and Justifications of Expert Consulting Programs Using an Automatic Programming Approach.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, December 1980.
    Readers: Davis, Randall and Fano, Robert.
  2. Patil, Ramesh S. “Causal Representation of Patient Illness for Electrolyte and Acid-Base Diagnosis.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, October 1981.
    Readers: Schwartz, William B and Davis, Randall.
  3. Smith, Brian Cantwell. “Procedural Reflection in Programming Languages.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, January 1982.
    Readers: Winograd, Terry and Allen, Jonathan.
  4. Kohane, Isaac S. “Temporal Reasoning in Medical Expert Systems.”
    PhD Thesis, MD/PhD program, Boston University, Boston, MA, May 1987.
    Co-supervised with Henneman, William.
  5. Wellman, Michael P. “Formulation of Tradeoffs in Planning Under Uncertainty.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, July 1988.
    Readers: Pauker, Stephen G and Patil, Ramesh S.
  6. Koton, Phyllis. “Using Experience in Learning and Problem Solving.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, July 1988.
    Readers: Patil, Ramesh S and Long, William J and Winston, Patrick H.
  7. Yeh, Alex. “Automated Analysis of Systems at Steady-State: Handling Iterative Dynamic Systems and Parameter Uncertainty.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 1990.
    Readers: Long, William J and Drake, Alvin.
  8. Russ, Tom. “Reasoning with Time-Dependent Data.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 1991.
    Readers: Patil, Ramesh S and Long, William J.
  9. Groleau, Nick. “Model-based Theory Refinement as a Diagnostic Problem.”
    PhD Thesis, Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 1992.
    Co-supervised with Young, Laurence R. Reader: Sriram, Duvurru.
  10. Amsterdam, Jonathan. “Automated Qualitative Modeling of Physical Systems.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, January 1993.
    Readers: Winston, Patrick H and Hogan, Neville.
  11. Jang, Yeona. “A Hybrid System with Feedback for Diagnosis of Multiple Disorders: HYDI.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 1993.
    Readers: Long, William J and Davis, Randall.
  12. Haimowitz, Ira. “Knowledge-Based Trend Detection and Diagnosis.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 1994.
    Co-supervised with Kohane, Isaac S. Reader: Shrobe, Howard.
  13. Leong, Tze-Yun. “Toward a General Framework of Automated Dynamic Decision Making.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 1994.
    Readers: Pauker, Stephen G and Drake, Alvin.
  14. Hauskrecht, Milos. “Planning and control in stochastic domains with imperfect information.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 1997.
    Readers: Kaelbling, Leslie and Viola, Paul and Rutledge, Geoffrey.
  15. Steward, Duane. “Utility Assessment Based on Individualized Patient Perspectives.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, September 1998.
    Readers: Pauker, Stephen G and Winston, Patrick H.
  16. Mohtashemi, Mojdeh. “Qualitative Analysis of Transience in Population Dynamics.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, March 2000.
    Readers: Levins, Richard and Mark, Roger.
  17. Tsien, Christine. “TrendFinder: Automated Detection of Alarmable Trends.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, April 2000.
    Co-supervised with Kohane, Isaac S. Reader: Winston, Patrick H.
  18. Sun, Yao. “Information Exchange between Medical Databases through Automated Identification of Concept Equivalence.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, October 2001.
    Reader: Kohane, Isaac S.
  19. Mui, Lik. “Computational Models of Trust and Reputation: Agents, Evolutionary Games, and Social Networks.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, December 2002.
    Co-supervised with Mohtashemi, Mojdeh. Readers: Kohane, Isaac S and Abelson, Hal.
  20. Shen, Delin. “An Exploratory Analysis of a Large Health Cohort Study Using Bayesian Networks.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, February 2006.
  21. Trepetin, Stanley. “Privacy in Context: The Costs and Benefits of a New Deidentification Method.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2006.
    Readers: Choucri, Nazli and Abelson, Hal.
  22. McGeachie, Michael. “The Local Geometry of Multiattribute Tradeoff Preferences.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, February 2007.
    Co-supervised with Doyle, Jon. Reader: Winston, Patrick H.
  23. Perry, John C. “The Psychophysiology of Risk Processing and Decision Making at a Regional Stock Exchange.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2007.
    Co-supervised with Lo, Andrew W.
  24. Lasko, Tom. “Improving methods of anonymization of privacy-sensitive databases.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 2007.
    Co-supervised with Vinterbo, Staal. Reader: Abelson, Hal.
  25. Hug, Caleb. “Detecting Hazardous Intensive Care Patient Episodes Using Real-time Mortality Models.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2009.
    Readers: Long, William J and Mark, Roger and Ohno-Machado, Lucila.
  26. Rudin, Robert. “Using Information Technology to Exchange Health Information among Healthcare Providers: Measuring Usage and Understanding Value.”
    PhD Thesis, Engineering Systems Division, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 2011.
    Co-supervised with Madnick, Stuart. Reader: Nightingale, Deborah.
  27. Bodnari, Andreea. “Joint Multilingual Learning for Coreference Resolution.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2014.
    Co-supervised with Uzuner, Özlem and Zweigenbaum, Pierre. Readers: Barzilay, Regina and Winston, Patrick H.
  28. Luo, Yuan. “Towards a Unified Multi-Modal Knowledge Representation and Learning Framework in the Biomedical Domain.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 2015.
    Co-supervised with Uzuner, Özlem. Readers: Madden, Sam and Hochberg, Ephraim P.
  29. Lee, Ji Young (Jenny). “Medical Information Extraction with Neural Networks.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2017.
    Readers: Mark, Roger and Bui, Hung.
  30. Dernoncourt, Franck. “Sequential Short-Text Classification with Neural Networks.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2017.
    Readers: Bui, Trung and Winston, Patrick H.
  31. Ghassemi, Marzyeh. “Representation Learning in Multi-dimensional Clinical Timeseries for Risk and Event Prediction.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2017.
    Readers: Guttag, John and Celi, Leo Anthony G.
  32. Naumann, Tristan Josef. “Leveraging Text Representations for Clinical Predictive Tasks.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2018.
    Readers: Guttag, John and Rumshisky, Anna.
  33. Finlayson, Samuel G. “Learning Inductive Representations of Biomedical Data.”
    PhD Thesis, Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, June 2020.
    Co-supervised with Kohane, Isaac S. Readers: Marks, Deborah and Manrai, Arjun and Might, Matt.
  34. Jin, Di. “Towards Better Natural Language Processing via Transfer Learning.”
    PhD Thesis, MechE, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 2020.
    Readers: Glass, James and Leonard, John and Sarma, Sanjay and Subirana, Brian.
  35. Boag, William G. “Evidence-based AI Ethics.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2022.
    Readers: Weitzner, Daniel and Ghassemi, Marzyeh and D'Ignazio, Catherine.
  36. McDermott, Matthew. “Leveraging Structure and Knowledge in Biomedical Representation Learning.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2022.
    Readers: Ghassemi, Marzyeh and Zitnik, Marinka.
  37. Weng, Wei-Hung. “Learning Representations for Heterogeneous and Limited Medical Data.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2022.
    Readers: Guttag, John and Celi, Leo.
  38. Sergeeva, Elena. “Quality improvement in clinical question answering.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, exploring.
  39. Chauhan, Geeticka. “Evaluation of changes in clinical conditions from images and text.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, exploring.
  40. Hsu, Tzu-Ming Harry. “Effective Modeling in Medical Imaging with Constrained Data.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, in progress.
  41. Alsentzer, Emily. “Diagnosis of Patients with Novel Genetic Conditions via Graph Neural Networks.”
    PhD Thesis, HST, MIT, Cambridge, MA, in progress.
    Co-supervised with Kohane, Isaac S. Reader: Zitnik, Marinka.

Doctoral Theses, Reader

  1. Borkin, Sheldon. “Equivalence Properties of Semantic Data Models for Database Systems.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, January 1979.
    Supervisor: Dennis, Jack. Other reader: Elias, Peter.
  2. Sidner, Candace Lee. “Towards a Computational Theory of Definite Anaphora Comprehension in English Discourse.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 1979.
    Supervisor: Allen, Jonathan. Other reader: Grosz, Barbara.
  3. Doyle, Jon. “A Model for Deliberation, Action, and Introspection.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 1980.
    Supervisor: Sussman, Gerald J. Other readers: McDermott, Drew and Minsky, Marvin.
  4. Church, Kenneth W. “Phrase-Structure Parsing: A Method for Taking Advantage of Allophonic Constraints.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, January 1983.
    Supervisor: Allen, Jonathan. Other reader: Zue, Victor.
  5. Fieschi, Marius. “Sphinx, un systeme d'aide a la decision en médecine.”
    PhD Thesis, Faculté de Médecine, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France, April 1983.
    Supervisor: Roux, Michel. Other reader: Grémy, François Pierre Emmanuel.
  6. Shibahara, Tetsutaro. “On Using Causal Knowledge to Recognize Vital Signals: A Study of Knowledge-based Interpretation of Arrythmias.”
    PhD Thesis, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, October 1985.
    Supervisor: Tsotsos, John. Other readers: Mylopoulos, John and Covvey, H Dominic.
  7. McAllester, David. “ONTIC: A Knowledge Representation System for Mathematics.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 1987.
    Supervisor: Sussman, Gerald J. Other reader: Meyer, Albert.
  8. Sacks, Elisha. “Automatic Qualitative Analysis of Ordinary Differential Equations Using Piecewise Linear Approximations.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, February 1988.
    Supervisor: Sussman, Gerald J and Patil, Ramesh S.
  9. Simmons, Reid Gordon. “Combining Associational and Causal Reasoning to Solve Interpretation and Planning Problems.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 1988.
    Supervisor: Davis, Randall. Other reader: Rich, Charles.
  10. Hamscher, Walter. “Model-Based Troubleshooting of Digital Systems.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 1988.
    Supervisor: Davis, Randall. Other readers: Patil, Ramesh S and Shrobe, Howard.
  11. Van Baalen, Jeff. “Steps Towards A Theory of Representation Design.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, January 1989.
    Supervisor: Davis, Randall. Other readers: Rich, Charles and Winston, Patrick H.
  12. de Jong, Stephen Peter. “Ubik: A Framework for the Development of Distributed Organizations.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 1989.
    Supervisor: Hewitt, Carl E. Other reader: Minsky, Marvin.
  13. Reubenstein, Howie B. “A Requirements Analyst's Apprentice.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 1990.
  14. Wills, Linda M. “Determining the Limits of Automated Program Recognition.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, March 1992.
    Supervisor: Rich, Charles. Other readers: Waters, Richard and McAllester, David.
  15. Wu, Tom. “A Decompositional Approach to the Diagnosis of Multiple Disorders.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 1992.
    Supervisor: Patil, Ramesh S. Other reader: Davis, Randall.
  16. Rymon, Ron. “Diagnostic Reasoning and Planning in Exloratory-Corrective Domains.”
    PhD Thesis, Dept. of Computer and Information Science, U. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, November 1993.
    Supervisor: Webber, Bonnie L. Other readers: Clarke, John R and Provan, Gregory and Marcus, Mitchell.
  17. Rojas-Guzman, Carlos. “An Evolutionary Programming Approach to Probabilistic Model-based Fault Diagnosis of Chemical Processes.”
    PhD Thesis, Chemical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA, February 1995.
    Supervisor: Kramer, Mark A. Other readers: Cooney, Charles and Stephanopoulos, George.
  18. Dellarocas, Chrysanthos. “A Coordination Perspective on Software Architecture: Towards a Design Handbook of Reusable Software Glue.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, February 1996.
    Supervisor: Malone, Thomas W. Other reader: Abelson, Hal.
  19. Bernstein, Abraham. “Populating the Specificity Frontier: IT Support for Improvisational and Adaptive Business Processes.”
    PhD Thesis, Sloan School, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 2000.
    Supervisor: Malone, Thomas. Other reader: Orlikowski, Wanda.
  20. Sweeney, Latanya. “Computational Disclosure Control: A Primer on Data Privacy Protection.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2001.
    Supervisor: Abelson, Hal. Other reader: Weitzner, Daniel.
  21. Lee, Thomas Y. “Attribution Metadata for Internet Data Management.”
    PhD Thesis, Technology, Management and Policy Program, MIT, Cambridge, MA, January 2002.
    Supervisor: Madnick, Stuart. Other reader: McKnight, Lee.
  22. Chklovski, Timothy A. “Using Analogy to Acquire Commonsense Knowledge from Human Contributors.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, February 2003.
    Supervisor: Winston, Patrick H. Other readers: Davis, Randall and Stork, David.
  23. Dennis A Quan, Jr. “Designing End User Information Environments Built on Semistructured Data Models.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2003.
    Supervisor: Karger, David R. Other readers: Miller, Robert and Shrobe, Howard.
  24. Kumar, Vikram Sheel. “The Design and Testing of a Personal Health System to Motivate Adherence to Intensive Diabetes Management.”
    MD Thesis, HST, MIT, Cambridge, MA, February 2004.
    Supervisor: Pentland, Alex P.
  25. Butte, Atul J. “Exploring Genomic Medicine Using Integrative Biology.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2004.
    Supervisor: Kohane, Isaac S. Other reader: Kahn, C Ronald.
  26. Steinkraus, Kurt. “Solving large stochastic planning problems using multiple dynamic abstractions.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2005.
    Supervisor: Kaelbling, Leslie Pack. Other readers: Blumberg, Bruce and Dietterich, Tom.
  27. Varma, Chris. “Quantitative analysis of splicing isoform expression profiles of CD44 in a subset of human cancers.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2005.
    Supervisor: Church, George M. Other reader: Devadas, Srini.
  28. Lacson, Ronilda Covar. “Automatic Analysis of Medical Dialogue in the Home Hemodialysis Domain: Structure Induction and Summarization.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, September 2005.
    Supervisor: Long, William J. Other reader: Barzilay, Regina.
  29. Sung, Michael. “Non-Invasive Wearable Sensing Systems for Continuous Health Monitoring and Long-Term Behavior Modeling.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, October 2005.
    Supervisor: Pentland, Alex P. Other readers: Guttag, John and Marci, Carl.
  30. Peters, Stephen L. “Hyperglue: An Infrastructure for Human-Centered Computing in Distributed, Pervasive,Intelligent Environments.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, February 2006.
    Supervisor: Shrobe, Howard E. Other reader: Davis, Randall.
  31. Saeed, Mohammed. “Temporal Pattern Recognition in Multiparameter ICU Data.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2007.
    Supervisor: G, Roger Mark. Other reader: Long, William J.
  32. Blair, Michael R. “Descartes: Dynamically Emergent Specialization via Contextually Adaptive Re-compilation using Task Execution Spectra for Profile-Driven Polyvariant On-Line Partial Evaluation.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 2007.
    Supervisor: Sussman, Gerald J. Other reader: Hanson, Chris.
    Successfully defended thesis, but did not submit it for degree.
  33. Pulim, Vinay. “Localized Methods for Protein Interaction Prediction.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2008.
    Supervisor: Berger, Bonnie. Other reader: Devadas, Srini.
  34. Cassa, Christopher A. “Privacy and Identifiability in Clinical Research, Personalized Medicine, and Public Health Surveillance.”
    PhD Thesis, HST, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 2008.
    Supervisor: Mandl, Kenneth. Other reader: Kohane, Isaac S.
  35. Blaya, Joaquin. “Implementation and evaluation of laboratory information systems in resource-poor settings.”
    PhD Thesis, HST, MIT, Cambridge, MA, December 2008.
    Supervisor: Fraser, Hamish S F and Shin, Sonya S. Other reader: Ohno-Machado, Lucila.
  36. Bryan, Jr, Allen W. “Prediction Of Parallel In-Register Amyloidogenic Beta-Structures in Highly Beta-Rich Protein Sequences by Pairwise Propensity Analysis.”
    PhD Thesis, HST, MIT, Cambridge, MA, September 2009.
    Supervisor: Berger, Bonnie and Lindquist, Susan L.
  37. Chao, Chih-Yu. “Why Can't Smart Phones be Polite, too? Would a Phone Need to Know?.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, February 2011.
    Supervisor: Davis, Randall. Other reader: Schmandt, Chris.
  38. Klann, Jeffrey. “An Automated System for Generating Situation-Specific Decision Support in Clinical Order Entry from Local Empirical Data.”
    PhD Thesis, School of Informatics, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, September 2011.
    Supervisor: Schadow, Gunther. Other readers: Downs, Stephen M and Finnell, John T and Palakal, Matthew J.
  39. Palmer, Nathan. “Data Mining Techniques for Large-Scale Gene Expression Analysis.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, September 2011.
    Supervisor: Berger, Bonnie. Other reader: Kohane, Isaac S.
  40. Shen, Yuan Kui. “Identifying Power Relationships in Dialogues.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, September 2011.
    Supervisor: Katz, Boris. Other readers: Davis, Randall and Winston, Patrick H.
  41. Finlayson, Mark. “Learning Narrative Structure from Annotated Folktales.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, October 2011.
    Supervisor: Winston, Patrick H. Other readers: Richards, Whitman A and Tenenbaum, Joshua B.
  42. Sauper, Christina. “Content Modeling for Social Media Text.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2012.
    Supervisor: Barzilay, Regina. Other reader: Glass, James.
  43. Eslick, Ian Scott. “Crowdsourcing Health Discoveries: from Anecdotes to Aggregated Self-Experiments.”
    PhD Thesis, Media Arts and Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, MA, September 2013.
    Supervisor: Moss, Frank. Other reader: Lieberman, Henry.
  44. Manrai, Arjun Kumar. “Statistical Foundations for Precision Medicine.”
    PhD Thesis, HST, MIT, Cambridge, MA, February 2015.
    Supervisor: Kohane, Isaac S. Other reader: Loscalzo, Joseph.
  45. Mateus, Ashley. “Evaluation of Teledermatology in the Veterans Health Administration.”
    PhD Thesis, HST, MIT, Cambridge, MA, February 2015.
    Supervisor: Nightingale, Deborah. Other readers: Weinstock, Martin and Mark, Roger.
  46. Shih, Fuming. “ContextProbe: Exploring Mobile Privacy in Context.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, February 2015.
    Supervisor: Abelson, Hal. Other readers: Estrin, Debrah and Weitzner, Daniel.
  47. Pivovarov, Rimma. “EHR Summarization over Heterogeneous and Irregularly Sampled Clinical Data.”
    PhD Thesis, Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY, June 2015.
    Supervisor: Elhadad, Noémie. Other readers: Hripcsak, George and Kuperman, Gilad and Stetson, Peter.
  48. Altshuler, Robert. “Computational Personal Genomics: Understanding the Functional Effects of Sequence Variation.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 2015.
    Supervisor: Kellis, Manolis. Other reader: Sabeti, Pardis.
  49. Farve, Niaja Nicole. “Designing personal systems for mindful decision making.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2016.
    Supervisor: Maes, Pattie. Other readers: Gosline, Renee and Guttag, John.
  50. Wang, Tong. “Interpretable Machine Learning for Finding Decision-Oriented Patterns in Data.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2016.
    Supervisor: Rudin, Cynthia. Other reader: Jegelka, Stefanie.
  51. Gombolay, Matthew. “Human-Machine Collaborative Optimization via Apprenticeship Scheduling.”
    PhD Thesis, Aero/Astro, MIT, Cambridge, MA, February 2017.
    Supervisor: Shah, Julie. Other readers: Thomaz, Andrea and Mutlu, Bilge and Balakrishnan, Hamsa and Hiatt, Laura and Son, Sung-Hyun.
  52. Kim, Yongwook Bryce. “Mining Massive Physiological Waveform Repositories for Large-Scale Patient Retrieval and Critical Event Prediction.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2017.
    Supervisor: O'Reilly, Una-May. Other reader: Indyk, Piotr.
  53. Haslam, Bryan. “Learning diseases from data: A disease space odyssey.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 2017.
    Supervisor: Perez-Breva, Luis.
  54. Berzak, Yevgeni. “Second language learning from a multilingual perspective.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, February 2018.
    Supervisor: Katz, Boris. Other reader: Korhonen, Anna.
  55. Fang, Xiao. “Uplift Modeling for Randomized Experiments and Observational Studies.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, February 2018.
    Supervisor: Simchi-Levi, David. Other reader: Daniel, Luca.
  56. Belinkov, Yonatan. “On internal language representations in deep learning: an analysis of machine translation and speech recognition.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, April 2018.
    Supervisor: Glass, James R. Other reader: Jaakkola, Tommi.
  57. Goh, Siong Thye. “Finding patterns in features and observations : new machine learning models with applications in computational criminology, marketing, and medicine.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, April 2018.
    Supervisor: Rudin, Cynthia. Other reader: Jegelka, Stefanie.
  58. Wang, Fulton. “Addressing Two Issues in Machine Learning: Interpretability and Dataset Shift.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2018.
    Supervisor: Rudin, Cynthia. Other reader: Jegelka, Stefanie.
  59. Nosakhare, Ehimwenma. “Probabilistic latent variable modeling for predicting future well-being and assessing behavioral influences on mood, stress and health.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, September 2018.
    Supervisor: Picard, Rosalind W. Other reader: Guttag, John.
  60. Prasad, Varesh. “Learning from Clinical Health Data for Real-Time Decision Support in Emergency Department Care of Sepsis.”
    PhD Thesis, HST, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2019.
    Supervisor: Heldt, Thomas. Other reader: Reisner, Andrew Tomas.
  61. Yang, Hongyu. “New Interpretable Machine Learning Techniques and an Application to Stroke Prediction in Atrial Fibrillation Patients.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2019.
    Supervisor: Rudin, Cynthia. Other reader: O'Reilly, Una-May.
  62. Korpusik, Mandy Barrett. “Deep Learning for Spoken Dialogue Systems: Application to Nutrition.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2019.
    Supervisor: Glass, James R. Other reader: Zue, Victor.
  63. Krishnan, Rahul G. “Advances in deep generative modeling for clinical data.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2020.
    Supervisor: Sontag, David A. Other readers: Shalit, Uri and Hoffman, Matthew.
  64. Myers, Paul. “Towards Clinically Useful Machine Learning for Patient Risk Stratification.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 2020.
    Supervisor: Stultz, Collin. Other reader: Guttag, John.
  65. Bakker, Michiel. “Algorithmic Fairness in Sequential Decision Making.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 2020.
    Supervisor: Pentland, Alex P. Other readers: Shah, Devavrat and Weller, Adrian.
  66. Wong, Chi Heem. “Applications of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence to Decision Making in Healthcare and Finance.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, January 2021.
    Supervisor: Lo, Andrew W. Other reader: Gruber, Jonathan.
  67. Sonabend, Aáron. “Offline Reinforcement Learning for Sequential Treatment Regime.”
    PhD Thesis, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, May 2021.
    Supervisor: Cai, Tianxi. Other reader: Mukherjee, Rajarshi.
  68. Liao, Ruizhi. “Multimodal Representation Learning for Medical Image Analysis.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 2021.
    Supervisor: Golland, Polina. Other reader: Sontag, David A.
  69. Holmes, Dylan. “Hypothetical reasoning for story understanding.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 2021.
    Supervisor: Davis, Randall. Other reader: Sussman, Gerald.
  70. Luo, Hongyin. “Self-Training for Natural Language Processing.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2022.
    Supervisor: Glass, James. Other reader: Kim, Yoon.
  71. He, Tianxing. “Towards a Better Understanding of Neural Language Generation.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2022.
    Supervisor: Glass, James. Other reader: Kim, Yoon.
  72. Agrawal, Monica Nayan. “Few-shot annotation from large language models.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, exploring.
    Supervisor: Sontag, David A. Other readers: Elhadad, Noémie and Kim, Yoon.
  73. Chen, Irene Y. “Machine Learning Approaches Towards Equitable Healthcare.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, in progress.
    Supervisor: Sontag, David A. Other reader: Ghassemi, Marzyeh.
  74. Tenso, Kertu. “Using Machine Learning and Causal Inference to Improve Suicide Outcomes in Veterans.”
    PhD Thesis, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, in progress.
    Supervisor: Strombotne, Kiersten. Other readers: Pizer, Steve and Garrido, Melissa and Wijaya, Derry.
  75. Zhou, Yilun. “From Local Explanations to Holistic Model Understanding.”
    PhD Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, in progress.
    Supervisor: Shah, Julie. Other readers: Andreas, Jacob and Ribeiro, Marco Tulio.
  76. Schlesinger, Daphne. “Reliable models for noninvasive measurement of central hemodynamics.”
    PhD Thesis, HST, MIT, Cambridge, MA, in progress.
    Supervisor: Stultz, Collin. Other reader: Heldt, Thomas.

Masters Theses

  1. Swartout, William R. “A Digitalis Therapy Advisor with Explanations.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, February 1977.
    Co-supervised with Martin, William A.
  2. Smith, Brian Cantwell. “Levels, Layers, and Planes: The Framework of a System of Knowledge Representation Semantics.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, January 1978.
  3. Bruccoleri, Robert. “English Conversational Error Correction in a Natural Language Parser.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, September 1978.
  4. Church, Kenneth W. “On Memory Limitations in Natural Language Processing.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 1980.
  5. Sherman, Howie. “A Comparative Study of Computer-Aided Clinical Diagnosis of Birth Defects.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, January 1981.
  6. Masand, Brij. “A Cancer Protocol Writer's Assistant.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 1982.
  7. Asbell, Irwin J. “A Constraint Representation and Explanation Facility for Renal Physiology.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 1982.
  8. Koton, Phyllis. “A System to Aid in the Solution of Problems in Molecular Genetics.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 1983.
  9. Russ, Tom. “Ventricular Arrhythmia Management: A Knowledge-Based Approach.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 1983.
  10. Granville, Robert. “Cohesion in Computer Text Generation: Lexical Substitution.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 1983.
    Co-supervised with Berwick, Robert.
  11. Barton, G Edward. “A Multiple-Context Equality-Based Reasoning System.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 1983.
    Co-supervised with Waters, Richard.
  12. Sacks, Elisha. “Qualitative Mathematical Reasoning.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, November 1984.
  13. Reubenstein, Howie B. “OPMAN: An OPS5 Rule Base Editing and Maintenance Package.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, February 1985.
  14. Wellman, Michael P. “Reasoning about Preference Models.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 1985.
  15. Kunstaetter, Robert. “Intelligent physiologic modeling: An Application of Knowledge Based Systems Technology.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, April 1986.
    Co-supervised with Barnett, G Octo.
  16. Harris, Nomi. “Probabilistic Reasoning in the Domain of Genetic Counseling.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 1989.
  17. Aghassi, David. “Evaluating Case-Based Reasoning for Heart Failure Diagnosis.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 1990.
  18. Leong, Tze-Yun. “Knowledge Representation for Supporting Decision Model Formulation in Medicine.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 1990.
  19. Lai, Sen-Hao. “CLIPSBASE: A Real-Time Relational Database for the `Principal Investigator-in-a-Box'.”
    Master's Thesis, Aero/Astro, MIT, Cambridge, MA, January 1991.
    Co-supervised with Young, Laurence R.
  20. Wu, Jennifer W. “Space-Time Trade Off via Loop-Unrolling Applied to Algorithms in Genetic Linkage Analysis.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, February 1993.
  21. Wu, David C. “A Patient Locator System.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, December 1993.
    Co-supervised with Dempsey, Michael.
  22. Yeh, Susan S. “Constructing Decision Models for Diabetes Using Clinical Data.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 1994.
  23. Sharma, Ashish. “Loan Pricing Model: Design and Implementation.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 1996.
  24. Le, Phuc V (Phillip). “A Clinical Trial of TrenDx: An Automated Trend-Detection Program.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, September 1996.
  25. Sweeney, Latanya. “Sprees: a Finite-State Orthographic Learning System that Recognizes and Generates Phonologically Similar Spellings.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 1997.
  26. Schindler, Jiri. “Learning the Structure and Content of an Electronic Medical Record System.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 1997.
  27. Zhao, Ruilin. “A Model-Based Expert System for Interpretation of Hemodynamic Data from ICU Patients.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 1997.
    Co-supervised with Mark, Roger.
  28. Goyal, Manish. “A Visual Method for Input of Uncertain Time-Oriented Data.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 1997.
  29. Lui, Jervis. “Development of a Pedigree Analysis Tool for Genetic Counselors.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 1998.
  30. Nigrin, Daniel J. “Improved Access to Large Medical Databases for Clinical Research and Quality Improvement.”
    Master's Thesis, HST, MIT, Cambridge, MA, February 1999.
    Co-supervised with Kohane, Isaac S.
  31. Miller, Jason C. “A Genetic Risk System for Genetic Counselors.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 1999.
  32. Coury, Catherine Maria. “An Expert System for the Treatment of Malaria.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, September 1999.
    Co-supervised with Mohtashemi, Mojdeh.
  33. DeSouza, Mary. “Automated Medical Trend Detection.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2000.
  34. Lacson, Ronilda. “Knowledge Representation of Situation-Specific Clinical Practice Guidelines.”
    Master's Thesis, HST, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2000.
    Co-supervised with Boxwala, Aziz.
  35. Ang, Cheewee. “A context-based personalized rating system using reputation as a basis.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2001.
    Co-supervised with Mui, Lik.
  36. Wu, Min. “Secure Health Information Sharing System (SHARE).”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2001.
    Co-supervised with Mohtashemi, Mojdeh.
  37. Nakrin, Andrew. “TagMeds --- A Tool for Populating eXtensible Markup Language Documents with UMLS Concept Unique Identifiers of Current Medications.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2001.
  38. Koh, Waikit. “An information theoretic approach to ontology-based interest matching.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2001.
    Co-supervised with Mui, Lik.
  39. Lieber, Silke C. “Privacy Enhancing Technology in Health Care by Use of Smart Cards.”
    Master's Thesis, Fachbereich Informatik, Medizinische Dokumentation und Informatik, Fachhochschule Ulm, Ulm, Germany, June 2001.
  40. Tanudjaja, Francisco. “Using Web Graph Structures to Personalize Search.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2001.
    Co-supervised with Mui, Lik.
  41. Mani, Kartik M. “Computer support for home-based health care.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 2001.
    Co-supervised with Long, William J and Ankorn, John.
  42. Butte, Atul J. “Mutual Information Relevance Networks: Functional Genomic Clustering Using Pairwise Entropy Measures.”
    Master's Thesis, HST, MIT, Cambridge, MA, February 2002.
    Co-supervised with Kohane, Isaac S.
  43. Bull, Steven M. “Diagnostic Process Monitoring with Temporally Uncertain Models.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2002.
  44. Harik, Ralph. “Structural and Semantic Information Extraction.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2003.
    Co-supervised with Mohtashemi, Mojdeh.
  45. Cody, Patrick M. “Dynamic Security for Medical Record Sharing..”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 2003.
  46. Zhang, Ying. “Real-Time Analysis of Physiological Data and Development of Alarm Algorithms for Patient Monitoring in the Intensive Care Unit.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 2003.
  47. Hastings, Joseph R. “Incremental Bayesian Segmentation for Intrusion Detection.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, September 2003.
    Co-supervised with Ramoni, Marco.
  48. Cassa, Christopher A. “Spatial Outbreak Detection Analysis Tool: A system to create sets of semi-synthetic geo-spatial clusters.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 2004.
    Co-supervised with Mandl, Kenneth.
  49. Bhooshan, Neha. “Classification of semantic relations in different syntactic structures in medical text using the MeSH hierarchy.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, February 2005.
  50. Hope, Stephanie. “Personal Internetworked Notary and Guardian Supported by Distributed Data Storage.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2005.
  51. Shu, Jennifer. “Free text phrase encoding and information extraction from medical notes.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, September 2005.
    Co-supervised with Mark, Roger.
  52. Mazen, Nadeem A. “High Usability Software for Outpatient Data-Collection and Health Education.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2006.
  53. Katirai, Hooman. “A Theory and Toolkit for the Mathematics of Privacy: Methods for Anonymizing Data while Minimizing Information Loss.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2006.
  54. Sibanda, Tawanda. “Was the Patient Cured? Understanding Semantic Categories and Their Relationships in Patient Records.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2006.
    Co-supervised with Uzuner, Özlem.
  55. Hug, Caleb. “Predicting the Risk and Trajectory of Intensive Care Patients Using Outcome Models.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, September 2006.
  56. Hofmann, Matthew Robert. “Modeling Medical Devices for Plug-and-Play Interoperability.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2007.
    Co-supervised with Weinstein, William W.
  57. Rudin, Robert. “Making Medical Records More Resilient.”
    Master's Thesis, Engineering Systems Division, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2007.
  58. He, Tian Ye. “Coreference Resolution on Entities and Events for Hospital Discharge Summaries.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 2007.
    Co-supervised with Uzuner, Özlem.
  59. Celi, Leo Anthony G. “Localized customized mortality prediction modeling for patients with acute renal failure admitted to the intensive care unit.”
    Master's Thesis, HST, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2009.
  60. Cuevas, Penelope H. “Visualizing the Conversation Pathways of Telephone Linked Care in a Directed Graph.”
    Master's Thesis, HST, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2009.
    Co-supervised with Friedman, Robert.
  61. Mishra, Rajesh. “Information Transmission in the MIMIC II Clinical Database.”
    Master's Thesis, System Design and Management, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2010.
    Co-supervised with Welsch, Roy.
  62. Kuan, Katherine. “Framework for Automated Heart and Lung Sound Analysis Using a Mobile Telephone Platform.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, July 2010.
    Co-supervised with Clifford, Gari.
  63. Ryan, Russel. “Groundtruth budgeting: A System for Semi-supervised Relation Extraction in Medical Language.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, January 2011.
    Co-supervised with Uzuner, Özlem.
  64. Lai, Jeremy. “Concept Extraction for Disability Insurance Payment Evaluation.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2011.
    Co-supervised with Long, William J.
  65. Tafvizi, Arya. “A De-identifier For Electronic Medical Records Based On A Heterogeneous Feature Set.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 2011.
    Co-supervised with Uzuner, Özlem.
  66. Kshetri, Kanak. “Modeling Patient States in Intensive Care Patients.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, September 2011.
    Co-supervised with Joshi, Rohit.
  67. Gur, Burkay. “Improving Speech Recognition Accuracy for Clinical Conversations.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2012.
  68. Bodnari, Andreea. “A Medication Extraction Framework for Electronic Health Records.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, September 2012.
    Co-supervised with Uzuner, Özlem.
  69. Chasin, Rachel. “Word Sense Disambiguation in Clinical Text.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2013.
    Co-supervised with Rumshisky, Anna.
  70. Misquitta, Donald. “Early Prediction of Antibiotics in Intensive Care Unit Patients.”
    Master's Thesis, Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, May 2013.
    Readers: Gagnon, David and Celi, Leo.
  71. Ooi, Boon Teik. “Probabilistic Modeling of Kidney Dynamics for Renal Failure Prediction.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, September 2013.
    Co-supervised with Long, William J.
  72. Chen, Michelle W. “Comparison of Natural Language Processing Algorithms for Medical Texts.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2015.
  73. Pillai, Divya. “Clinical Trend Discovery and Analysis of Taiwanese Health Insurance Claims Data.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2016.
  74. Chamberlain, Daniel. “Design of a Mobile Kit for Diagnosis and Screening of Pulmonary Disease.”
    Master's Thesis, IDSS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, February 2017.
    Co-supervised with Fletcher, Rich.
  75. Suresh, Harini. “Clinical event prediction and understanding with deep neural networks.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2017.
  76. Sundaresan, Tejas. “Sequential Modeling for Mortality Prediction in the ICU.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2017.
  77. Boag, William. “Quantifying Racial Disparities in End-of-Life Care.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2018.
  78. McDermott, Matthew B A. “Deep Learning Benchmarks and Structured Models for L1000 Gene Expression Data.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, February 2019.
  79. Girkar, Uma. “Predicting blood pressure response to fluid bolus therapy in the ICU using attention-based stacked neural networks for clinical interpretability.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, February 2019.
  80. Vajapey, Anuhya. “Predicting Optimal Sedation Control With Reinforcement Learning.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2019.
  81. Chauhan, Geeticka. “REflex: Flexible Framework for Relation Extraction in Multiple Domains.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2019.
  82. Bair, Annamarie Elizabeth. “Molecular Graph Self Attention and GraphConvolution for Drug Discovery.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 2019.
  83. Min, So Yeon Tiffany. “Towards Knowledge-Based, Robust Question Answering.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2020.
  84. Pham, Mai Phuong. “Machine Comprehension for Clinical Case Reports.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2020.
  85. Hsu, Tzu-Ming Harry. “Automatic Longitudinal Assessment of Tumor Responses.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2020.
  86. Yu, Justin. “Predicting Post-surgical Opioid Consumption using Perioperative Surgical Data.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2020.
    Co-supervised with Brat, Gabriel.
  87. Chen, Ta Hang. “An Artificial Intelligence Based Approach to Automate Document Processing in Business Area.”
    Master's Thesis, System Design and Management and EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2021.
    Co-supervised with Gupta, Amar and Rhodes, Donna.
  88. Zhou, Tianqi. “Addressing Deficiencies from Missing and Conflicting Patient Data in Telehealth.”
    Master's Thesis, Integrated Design \& Management and EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2021.
    Co-supervised with Gupta, Amar and Hu, Antonio.
  89. Berlin, Heather. “Subgrouping Ulcerative Colitis Patients using Administrative Claims Data.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, June 2021.
  90. Wang, Yi. “The Detection and Characterization of Severe Features in Colonoscopy Videos Using Combined Segmentation and Classification Models.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, September 2021.
    Co-supervised with Schott, Jean-Pierre.
  91. Rawat, Saumya. “Multi-dimensional evaluation metrics for chest x-ray reports.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2022.
  92. Lehman, Eric. “Using language models to generate realistic clinical questions.”
    Master's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, in progress.

Bachelors Theses and Undergraduate Advanced Projects

  1. Cooper, Greg F. “MTQ, A Medically Oriented Time Series Query Language.”
    Bachelor's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 1977.
  2. Halbert, David C. “A LISP Debugger for Display Terminals.”
    Bachelor's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 1978.
  3. Conklin, Bill. “The design and implementation of a pharmacy billing system for a 300-bed hospital.”
    Bachelor's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 1978.
  4. Russ, Tom. “Design of Drug Administration Protocols for Cancer Therapy.”
    Bachelor's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 1980.
  5. Schmick, Jonathan. “Clarifying and Defining Operating Characteristics of a Differential Diagnosis Program.”
    Bachelor's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 1981.
  6. Wellman, Michael P. “A System to Help Physicians Evaluate Evidence Using Bayesian Revision.”
    Bachelor's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 1983.
  7. Alfonso, Leola A. “Protocol Analysis Applied to Medical Problem Solving.”
    Bachelor's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, September 1984.
  8. Pachura, David W. “A Re-Implementation of the ABEL Expert Knowledge Base.”
    Bachelor's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, September 1985.
  9. Sullivan, Tom. “A Concurrent PASCAL Implementation.”
    Bachelor's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 1989.
  10. Yampratoom, Ed. “Automatic Layout for Pedigree Diagrams.”
    Bachelor's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 1991.
  11. Stewart, William P. “LINK: A Representation of Gene Linkage in Common Lisp.”
    Bachelor's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 1991.
  12. Wu, David C. “An Object-Oriented Event-Driven Measurement Architecture.”
    Bachelor's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 1993.
  13. Sun, Jennifer Y. “Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Breast Cancer.”
    Bachelor's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 1994.
  14. Block, Brad. “A Unifying Parameterized Abstraction for Segmented Web Application Creation.”
    Bachelor's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2001.
  15. Khilnani, Reshma. “Clustering of News Articles from Multiple Web Sources.”
    Bachelor's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2003.
  16. Schmeckpeper, Benjamin A. “Centralized Track Results.”
    Bachelor's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2005.
  17. Powers, III, Alvin Carter. “Patient Case Tracking: A GUI Application for a Data Collection and Data Management System for AIDS Patients in Zambia.”
    Bachelor's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2005.
    Part of a multi-student project to develop tools for primary AIDS care in Zambia.
  18. Moah, Aye. “Modular Patient Tracking System.”
    Bachelor's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2005.
    Part of a multi-student project to develop tools for primary AIDS care in Zambia.
  19. Gupta, Rohit. “DTM: Casetracking.”
    Bachelor's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2005.
    Part of a multi-student project to develop tools for primary AIDS care in Zambia.
  20. Eng, Christy. “Patient Case Tracking System: Web Server Development.”
    Bachelor's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2005.
    Part of a multi-student project to develop tools for primary AIDS care in Zambia.
  21. Callahan, Tyler. “A PDA-based Patient Tracking System.”
    Bachelor's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2005.
    Part of a multi-student project to develop tools for primary AIDS care in Zambia.
  22. Bharghava, Neha. “AIDS Patient Case-tracking System: Discussion of the Web Interface.”
    Bachelor's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2005.
    Part of a multi-student project to develop tools for primary AIDS care in Zambia.
  23. Wang, Qian. “AIDS Patient Tracking System.”
    Bachelor's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2005.
    Part of a multi-student project to develop tools for primary AIDS care in Zambia.
  24. Pigneri, Rocco. “Translating Chemical Terms into Spanish.”
    Bachelor's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2005.
    Joint project with Uche Enuha.
  25. Enuha, Uche. “Translating Chemical Terms into Spanish.”
    Bachelor's Thesis, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2005.
    Joint project with Rocco Pigneri.
  26. Baptista, Silvia. “Integrating Medical Text Extraction Tools.”
    Undergraduate Advanced Project, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, January 2008.
  27. Kim, Wonsik. “A System For Free Text Medical Document Analysis: A Parsing, Clustering, and Browsing System.”
    Undergraduate Advanced Project, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2008.
  28. Zhang, Xiaoran. “Medical Question Answering System.”
    Undergraduate Advanced Project, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2008.
    Co-supervised with Uzuner, Özlem.
  29. Yang, Christine. “A Usable Personal Health Record for Senior Citizens.”
    Undergraduate Advanced Project, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, August 2008.
  30. Gens, Robert. “The Neuron Simulation Game.”
    Undergraduate Advanced Project, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2009.
    Joint project with Melanie Bomke.
  31. Bomke, Melanie. “The Neuron Simulation Game.”
    Undergraduate Advanced Project, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2009.
    Joint project with Robert Gens.
  32. Pugh, Kendra. “An Expert-Based System for Massachusetts Emergency Medical Services---(EMS)$^2$.”
    Undergraduate Advanced Project, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2009.
  33. Awad, Hiba. “Using Bayesian Modeling to Understand the Dependency Structure between Epigenetics and Gene Expression.”
    Undergraduate Advanced Project, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2009.
  34. Rothberg, Alex. “Interfacing Dragon Naturally Speaking with a Lisp Text Processing System.”
    Undergraduate Advanced Project, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2009.
  35. Bracht, Erich. “CSAIL Publications Website.”
    Undergraduate Advanced Project, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2010.
  36. Gheorghe, Cosmin. “Coreference Resolution through Word Alignment.”
    Undergraduate Advanced Project, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2014.
    Co-supervised with Bodnari, Andreea.
  37. Wu, Yi. “Diurnal Variations in Blood Glucose Concentrations in ICU Patients.”
    Undergraduate Advanced Project, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2014.
    Co-supervised with Zhang, Ying.
  38. Fu, Sherry. “Designing Data Tools for the Community Health Workers of Association Espoir pour Demain in Kara, Togo.”
    Undergraduate Advanced Project, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2014.
  39. Driscoll, Joseph. “Improving Outpatient Physical Therapy.”
    Undergraduate Advanced Project, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2014.
  40. Merlino, Matthew. “PLATE (Poly-Lingual Architecture for Text Engineering) Extensions.”
    Undergraduate Advanced Project, EECS, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 2014.
    Co-supervised with Luo, Yuan.

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