Monica Agrawal is an Assistant Professor at Duke University and the Co-Founder of Layer Health. Her work focuses on developing interpretable machine learning models for healthcare to personalize treatment and understand disease. She holds a PhD from MIT and a Masters degree from Stanford University.
At Stanford, she received the Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Scholastic Award, which is awarded to the top five percent of the senior undergraduate engineering class.
Monica Agrawal
Assistant Professor at Duke University
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Overview
Topics They Care About
AI in Healthcare
Her academic research at Duke and her startup, Layer Health, are both dedicated to applying machine learning to solve complex problems in healthcare and clinical data.
Interpretable AI
A core focus of her research is creating machine learning models whose decision-making processes are transparent and understandable, especially for clinical applications.
Personalized Medicine
She develops novel machine learning methods aimed at tailoring medical treatments to individual patients, a key theme in her academic work.
Media Appearances
Duke University Sets New National Standard for Safe, Scalable AI in Health Care. Featured in Duke Health Corporate News
Work History
7-2024
Assistant Professor at Duke University
1-2023
Co-Founder at Layer Health
5-2018 - 8-2018
Software Engineering Intern at Flatiron Health
7-2017 - 9-2017
Software Engineering Intern at Google
6-2016 - 8-2016
Software Engineering Intern at Flatiron Health
6-2015 - 9-2015
Software Engineering Intern at Google
6-2014 - 8-2014
Summer Research Intern at Stanford Biomedical Optics Group
Education
2018 - 2-2023
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2016 - 2018
Master’s Degree from Stanford University
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Location : Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Job Level : Junior
Designation : Assistant Professor at Duke University
