Ravi Teja Bhupatiraju, MBBS, PhD
Senior Artificial Intelligence Research Scientist, Center for Applied AI
Dr. Ravi Teja Bhupatiraju earned his medical degree from Manipal University in India and a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Oregon Health & Science University, where he conducted Information Retrieval (IR) work focused on the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC, NIST) the Genomics track. He also developed an IR system for Healthcare Learning Object Metadata (Healthcare LOM), collaborating with the Medbiquitous consortium. For his doctoral dissertation, he conducted qualitative research for cognitive modeling of medication management activities of clinicians, developing a novel theory. At the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at NIH, as a postdoctoral fellow, he built a Natural Language Processing-based Drug Interaction extraction pipeline for the FDA, along with various informatics tools, including a Named Entity Recognition tool and a MeSH term co-occurrence explorer.
As a Senior Artificial Intelligence Research Scientist, he researches stress detection using wearables, predictive and visual analytics, public health data science, and artificial Intelligence systems, especially the application of Large Language Models in Healthcare.