Research Interests
Clinical Natural Language Processing, Retrieval for Large Language Models,
Retrieval Augmented Generation and Robustness of LLMs
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On-the-fly Definition Augmentation of LLMs for Biomedical NER
Monica Munnangi, Sergey Feldman, Byron C Wallace, Silvio Amir, Tom Hope, Aakanksha Naik
Accepted to NAACL, 2024
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arXiv
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Open (Clinical) LLMs are Sensitive to Instruction Phrasings
Alberto Mario Ceballos Arroyo*, Monica Munnangi*, Jiuding Sun, Karen Y.C. Zhang, Denis Jered McInerney, Byron C. Wallace, Silvio Amir
Accepted to BioNLP at ACL, 2024
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arXiv
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Chest Tube Detection on Chest X-Ray Images Using Convolutional Deep Neural Networks
Khaled Younis, Yash Shah, Monica Munnangi, Katelyn Nye, Gireesha Rao, John M. Sabol
Accepted to European Society of Radiology (ECR) 2020, EPOS Scientific Poster.
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arXiv
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A Brief History of Named Entity Recognition
Monica Munnangi
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arXiv
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Auto generation of Image Captions for Medical Images
Monica Munnangi, Anubha Thandley
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arXiv
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Teaching and Mentoring
- Teaching Assistant for Unsupervised Machine Learning and Data Mining assisted Prof. Pavlu Virgil
at Northeastern University in Spring 2023 semester
- Teaching Assistant for Unsupervised Data Mining and assisted Prof. Pavlu Virgil at
Northeastern University in Fall 2022 semester.
- Co-advised a cohort of graduate students for a project titled Leveraging knowledge
distillation for efficient on-device deployment of deep learning models in medical imaging [Naik, A. et al.]
published in Society for Imaging Informatics in MCMI in Medical Imaging, Nov 2020.
- Teaching Assistant for the course Database Management Systems and assisted Prof. Muralidhar A. at
Vellore Institute of Technology in the Fall 2017 semester.
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Academic Service
- Communications chair (Organizing Committee) Conference on Health, Inference and Learning (CHIL), 2024
- Program Committee at Human-centered LLMs workshop, ACL 2024
- Logistics co-chair (Organizing Committee) for CHIL, 2023
- Reviewer: ML4H 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, COLING 2025
- Program Committee at User-centered Natural Language Processing Workshop, WWW 2022
- Student reviewer at Northeastern University’s CS PhD Admissions Committee 2022
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Awards and Grants
- Student Grant for NeurIPS 2020
- Student Grant for EMNLP 2020
- Central Board of Secondary Education Excellence award for outstanding performance in AISSE 2014
- City topper, Science Olympiad Foundation - National Science Olympiad 2012
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Extra-Curriculars and Voluntary Work
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National Science Olympiad
SOF
is an Educational Organization popularizing academic competition and assisting development of competitive
spirit among school children.
I was awarded the School Topper in Grade 10.
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Technocrats
Software Developer - 2016 to 2017 ; Team Technocrats is
VIT Chennai’s official robotics team.
Technocrats incorporates students from different
branches who share a common passion for robotics and each one showcases their talent and skill in their
particular field.
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Hackathons
Participated in the MIT Hacking Medicine - May 2019 and
co-developed OraNet
which is a mobile application which would assist a clinician to screen patients for oral cancer in a quick
and cost
effective way.Participated in the HackHer413 and co-developed an
algorithm to
detect Wild animals in the images and gives information about the animals.
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The Orange Leaf, Hyderabad
Part of an event at DESIRE Society, Hyderabad - Serving children affected with HIV/AIDS.
Volunteer of an event at Sivananda Rehabilation Home, Hyderabad - To serve the needs of people affected by
leprosy.
Volunteered a fund raising event, organized a 5K run in Hyderabad.
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