Vasiliki (Vicky) Bikia
HAI Postdoctoral Fellow
Vicky is a postdoctoral fellow at HAI, working with Professor Roxana Daneshjou. She received her Advanced Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), and her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL). Her doctoral research focused on addressing the clinical need for non-invasive cardiovascular monitoring tools, utilizing machine learning and physics-based numerical modeling. Currently, Vicky's work centers on developing large multimodal models to enhance biomarker identification and predict patient outcomes. She leverages representation learning for both textual and visual data, creating models that are applied to downstream tasks, yielding more nuanced and precise clinical predictions. Vicky is also passionate about developing patient-facing chatbots to help individuals better understand imaging results and hospital discharge instructions. Her overarching goal is to improve patient outcomes while making healthcare more accessible and effective for everyone.