Hita Kambhamettu is a PhD student in the Computer and Information Science department at the School of Engineering and Applied Science. Her work is largely in the intersection between human-AI interaction and healthcare informatics. Kambhamettu builds tools to support organizing, contextualizing, and reasoning about complex medical information. Currently, she is interested in developing AI agents to effectively answer “tricky” medical questions.

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Hita Kambhamettu
- PhD Student, Computer and Information Systems, School of Engineering and Applied Science
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