Scholar
Michelle M. Li
Google Scholar ID: jQ1VLuUAAAAJ
Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,023
H-index
9
i10-index
9
Publications
20
Co-authors
15
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Albert J. Ryan Fellowship, and Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award. Collaborates with the Undiagnosed Diseases Network, Roche, Mass General Brigham, Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) initiative, Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, and Clalit Research Institute.
Research Experience
- Berkowitz Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School, working on developing contextual AI algorithms to diagnose rare or novel diseases and facilitate drug discovery with single-cell resolution.
Education
- PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Harvard University, mentored by Dr. Marinka Zitnik; B.S. in Mathematical and Computational Science from Stanford University, mentored by Dr. Ami Bhatt and Dr. Samuel Yang.
Background
- Research interests include antibiotic resistance, microbiome, graph ML, rare diseases, contextual AI, and drug discovery. She is a Berkowitz Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School, focusing on innovating contextual AI algorithms to diagnose and treat patients for whom conventional medicine fails.
Miscellany
- STEM educator and advocate, dedicated to mentoring and supporting first-generation low-income (FLI) students and/or under-represented minorities (URM) in STEM. Founder and director of Reroot STEM, a nonprofit organization committed to empowering historically URM around the world to pursue a career in STEM. Also founded and teaches the middle school computer science program at Alexander Twilight Academy.
