Michelle Li, PhD

Michelle Li is a Berkowitz Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School. Her research is focused on innovating contextual AI algorithms to diagnose and treat patients for whom conventional medicine fails. Concretely, her work tackles the challenges of diagnosing patients with rare, or even novel, diseases and facilitating drug discovery with single-cell resolution. She obtained her PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Harvard University under the mentorship of Dr. Marinka Zitnik, and her B.S. in Mathematical and Computational Science from Stanford University. Her research in contextual AI for precision medicine was awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, the Albert J. Ryan Fellowship, and the Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award.