Team Members

Dr. Asma Ben Abacha is a Senior Scientist at Microsoft Health AI. She works on medical NLP/AI projects including Clinical Note Generation and Evaluation, Summarization of Doctor-Patient Conversations, and Recognition of Social Determinants of Health. She received a Ph.D. in computer science from Paris-Saclay University, France. Before joining Microsoft, she worked at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) on AI/ML projects and developed new models and datasets for Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision in the medical domain. She has published over 70 scientific articles with 2,000+ citations and served as Area Chair and reviewer for top conferences and journals in NLP, ML, and Medical Informatics. Dr. Ben Abacha launched and co-organized several new competitions in NLP/AI that attracted 100+ participating teams such as the international challenges on Medical Question Answering (TREC 2017), Visual Question Answering from Radiology Images (VQA-Med 2019-2021), and the MEDIQA shared tasks (2019-2023). She is also a co-founder of the North Africans in NLP/ML events & affinity group workshops, and co-organizer of the Clinical NLP workshop. ical NLP workshop.