Alina is a senior majoring in Computer Science and Statistics. She is interested in biomedical AI, especially how machine learning and language-based methods can help connect mouse and human disease. Her honors thesis focuses on comparing how experiments are described across species and what that means for translation.
After graduating in May ‘26, she will begin her PhD in Computer Science at UMass Amherst in the Hong Lab, where she plans to continue working on biomedical NLP and cross-species modeling.
Today Alina Yildirim gave an excellent presentation of her honors thesis on zoom! Her thesis is titled “Translating Across Medicine’s Translation Gap: Comparing Semantic Representations of Human and Mouse Experiments.”
We are excited to share that Alina Yildirim has been selected as an Honors Fellow through the AEMES McKinley Fellowship Program!