Kenan Alkiek
Research Areas
Biography
PhD Candidate co-advised by Vinod Vydiswaran and David Jurgens. My research focuses on how language models reason, with a particular emphasis on small language models and their applications in healthcare and collaborative decision-making.
Areas of interest
natural language processing, reasoning, healthcare, decision making
Honors & Awards
e-Health and Artificial Intelligence (e-HAIL) Funding Award
NVIDIA Academic Grant Program Award
OpenAI NextGenAI Award
Teresa Noel Urban Blaurock Student Research Award
Education
M.S. Applied Statistics, University of Michigan 2022
B.S. Computer Science, Kettering University 2018
Minor: Applied Mathematics
