Student Profiles

Shreya graduated from the University of Virginia with degrees in Cognitive Science and Public Policy & Leadership. Here, she sought out ways to combine her background in molecular biology research and interests in medicine with her studies of computer science and public policy. She worked as a teaching assistant for organic chemistry courses and served as a Research Assistant at the interdisciplinary Institute for Law, Psychiatry, & Public Policy. She also worked at Microsoft Research for two summers as an undergraduate intern and then researcher in the Adaptive Systems & Interaction group on several projects and papers related to user experience and human-AI collaborations in healthcare. 

After graduating, she worked on natural language processing algorithms for clinical documents as a postbac research fellow in a joint collaboration with Dr. Frank Maldarelli at the National Cancer Institute and Dr. Govind Bhagavatheeshwaran at the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke. 

In the NIH Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program, she works with Dr. Andra Krauze in the Radiation Oncology Branch at the National Cancer Institute and Dr. Jat Singh in the Compliant and Accountable Systems Group in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge. Through this collaboration, she is developing and exploring the interpretability of machine learning algorithms using multi-modal clinical oncology data.