Monica Agrawal

Dr. Monica Agrawal is an incoming assistant professor at Duke University and a co-founder of Layer Health. At Duke, she will have a joint appointment between the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics and the Department of Computer Science. In her research, she tackles diverse challenges including scalable clinical information extraction, smarter electronic health records, and human-in-the-loop systems. Her work has been published at top venues in machine learning, natural language processing, computational health, and human-computer interaction. She has been the recipient of a Takeda Fellowship, a Tau Beta Pi Fellowship, and an MIT EECS Edgerton Fellowship and was named a 2022 Rising Star in EECS. Dr. Agrawal earned her PhD in Computer Science at MIT and previously obtained a BS/MS in Computer Science from Stanford University.