Kevin Guo

About Me

Hello, I’m Kevin! I am a Ph.D. student at Vanderbilt University, advised by Prof. Bradley Malin. My research is broadly interested in creating robust and trustworthy machine learning systems for healthcare.

Currently, I’m working on

1. LLM reasoning under uncertainty in clinical decision making.
2. Harmonizing multi-site collaborations through data addition optimization and domain-invariant synthetic data generation

Previously, I received a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. At USC, I worked on interpretable neuroimage deep learning advised by Prof. Andrei Irimia. I also spent two years as an AI/ML Research Intern at NASA Ames working on NLP for air traffic control under Stephen Clarke and Dr. Krishna Kalyanam in the NASA Aeronautics Research Institute.

I am grateful to be supported by the NSF GRFP and the NLM T15.

Blog

Check out my blog here!

News

• [5.2026] Honored to receive Vanderbilt’s Lacy-Fischer Fellowship, which supports an interdisciplinary demonstrating strong potential ($7,500)
• [12.2025] Honored to receive Vanderbilt’s Richard Bennett/Dorothy Danforth Compton Prize, which supports one enterring PhD student demonstrating potential in sciences and engineering ($2,500).
• [11.2025] I’ll be at AMIA 2025 in Atlanta, GA.
• [10.2025] I’ll be participating in VU’s NSF GRFP panel.
• [8.2025] Starting my PhD in Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University!
• [4.2025] Honored to be selected for the NSF GRFP.
• [10.2024] My manuscript on saliency methods for neuroimage deep learning was published in the latest issue of Neuroinformatics. Read it here!
• [3.2024] My first publication! My paper on inverse text normalization for air traffic control was accepted to AIAA Aviation. Read about my work at NASA here!

Resources

Research and Writing

• How I Think About My Research Process: Explore, Understand, Distill, Neel Nanda
• Highly Opinionated Advice on How to Write ML Papers, Neel Nanda
• Easy paper writing tips, Ethan Perez
• Heuristics for Scientific Writing, Zachary Lipton
• How to Write ML Papers, Sebastian Farquhar

AI, ML, and DL

• d2l.ai
• Very basic introduction to curiosity through an RL lens

Data Privacy

• Reflections on the Dagsthul Seminar on privacy for biomedical data sharing, Damien Desfontain

Publications

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