Professor
Rada Mihalcea’s global health focus centers on using technology to assist counselors in training and provide patient-centered support. Her work explores how AI-enabled tools can strengthen counseling education, clinical communication, and support for patients preparing for healthcare visits. Her interests in global health equity align with the Center’s themes of strengthening systems for health and developing technical solutions. Mihalcea’s research focuses on developing natural language processing, large language and language-vision models, and computational social science, with a focus on cross-cultural and cross-lingual models, fairness, interpretability, and responsible AI deployment. "
