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
NVIDIA Academic Grant Program Award
OpenAI NextGenAI Award
T
eresa 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
