We are interested in natural language processing (NLP) along two lines of investigation. First, we are interested in the study of medical language and its practical utilization to advance human healthcare. We build large language models trained on a unique biomedical corpus towards practically significant predictive tasks, and productionize and test these models in a live healthcare environment. Our second interest is the acquisition of language itself by humans. We are interested in the grounding of human languages in sensory experience and its distributed encoding within the human brain. We have the unique ability to study this in human neurosurgical patients that give us an intimate view of the internal dynamics of the human brain with the hope that our insights will lead to novel advances in language modelling and hopefully advances in the care of stroke patients and other aphasias.

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