Byron Wallace

Byron Wallace is the Sy and Laurie Sternberg Interdisciplinary Associate Professor at Northeastern University's Khoury College of Computer Sciences, where he also serves as Associate Dean for Research and Director of the BS in Data Science Program. His research focuses on Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning applications in healthcare.

Education

Details of formal education are not explicitly provided in the available text, though he holds a PhD from Tufts University (mentioned in thesis award context).

Research Interests

His work centers on developing NLP and ML models for health applications, with particular emphasis on:

• Biomedical evidence synthesis automation
• Electronic Health Record processing
• Model interpretability and trustworthiness
• Human-in-the-loop systems
• Learning with limited supervision

Research Trends

Recent publications demonstrate strong focus on large language model applications in healthcare, including factuality evaluation for medical summarization, evidence extraction from clinical trials, and interpretable risk prediction models. Notable contributions include work on GPT-3 applications in medical evidence synthesis and neural methods for EHR analysis.

Scientific Awards

• ACL Outstanding Paper Award (2022)
• ICLR Spotlight (top 5% acceptance) (2024)
• Best Student-led Paper Award at AMIA 2021
• NSF CAREER Award (2018-2023)

Advising and Grants

Currently advises 4 PhD students and has mentored numerous others. Major funding includes:

• NSF CAREER Award ($500K+)
• NIH R01 grant for EHR summarization
• NSF Medium grant for healthcare summarization
• Support from Army Research Office, Amazon, and Seton Hospital

Labs and Teams

Leads the Evidence Inference project team working on automated biomedical evidence synthesis. Collaborates with Brigham and Women's Hospital, Mass General Hospital, and Reboot Rx for clinical translation of research.