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Spring 2025

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Large Language Models for Clinical Data

Ahmed Alaa, Professor  
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science  

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Large language models (LLMs) pre-trained on large corpora of text have
demonstrated incredible capabilities across with zero- or few-shot performance in new tasks that differ from their pre-training objectives. In this projects, we will study the zero-shot performance of LLMs for various clinical tasks using real-world clinical notes at the UCSF medical center.

Role: - Conducting experiments and maintaining a project codebase
- Regular presentation of progress in weekly lab meetings
- Assist in manuscript writing
- Workload expected to be > 12 hrs/week
- The student may engage in high-profile collaboration with industry research labs

Qualifications: - Strong programming skills
- Prior experience working with LLMs.
- Strong interest in pursuing graduate

Hours: 12 or more hours

Related website: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-024-01083-y
Related website: https://alaalab.berkeley.edu/

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