Silvio Amir

Silvio Amir is an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University's Khoury College of Computer Sciences, specializing in natural language processing with applications in healthcare and bias detection. His research develops NLP methods for clinical applications while addressing algorithmic bias in AI systems. Current projects include improving reliability of clinical language models and studying demographic biases in medical AI.

Research focuses on clinical NLP robustness, model distillation techniques, and bias mitigation. Actively advises PhD students on projects involving healthcare NLP applications. Recent publications examine sensitivity of clinical LLMs to instruction phrasings and methods for reducing bias in medical AI systems.