Veterinary and Biological Informatics Lab Smith College Department of Computer Science

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 at UMass Amherst in the Hong Lab, where she plans to continue working on biomedical NLP and cross-species modeling.

Search for Alina Yildirim '26's papers on the Research page