I am a fourth-year Ph.D. student at the UC Berkeley School of Information and Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR). I am pursuing an M.S. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley EECS, along with a minor in Computational Precision Health through a joint program with UCSF. I am co-advised by Dr. Ahmed Alaa and Dr. David Bamman.

My research develops and applies machine learning and statistical methods to medicine, with a focus on clinical natural language processing, time-series causal inference, and human-centered AI.

I received my master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and bachelor's degree from Claremont McKenna College. I previously interned with the Health Futures team at Microsoft Research (MSR).


Publications
Nikita Mehandru, Amanda K. Hall, Olesya Melnichenko, Yulia Dubinina, Daniel Tsirulnikov, David Bamman, Ahmed Alaa, Scott Saponas, Venkat S. Malladi
Preprint.
Nikita Mehandru*, Brenda Y. Miao*, Eduardo Rodriguez Almaraz*, Madhumita Sushil, Atul J. Butte, Ahmed Alaa
npj Digital Medicine
Nikita Mehandru, Sweta Agrawal, Yimin Xiao, Ge Gao, Elaine Khoong, Marine Carpuat, Niloufar Salehi
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP '23) 🏆 Outstanding Paper Award
Sweta Agrawal*, Nikita Mehandru*, Niloufar Salehi, Marine Carpuat
Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT '22)
Nikita Mehandru, Samantha Robertson, Niloufar Salehi
ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT '22)
Steven Weber, Nikita Mehandru
Business and Politics
* = denotes equal authorship
Workshops
Wesley Hanwen Deng, Nikita Mehandru, Samantha Robertson, Niloufar Salehi
Workshop on Trust and Reliance in AI-Human Teams (TRAIT), ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21)

Teaching

Graduate Student Instructor (Fall 2024) - INFO 241: Experiments and Causal Inference


Academic Service

Research Roundtable Junior Chair - Machine Learning for Health (ML4H), 2023

Ph.D. Student-Faculty Representative, 2022-2023

ISchool Doctoral Applicant Reviewer, 2021-2023