Scholar
Elizabeth Schaefer
Google Scholar ID: xuBplbUAAAAJ
Student, Yale University
Citations & Impact
Citations
0
H-index
0
i10-index
0
Publications
1
Co-authors
1
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Published paper 'Gender-Neutral Large Language Models for Medical Applications: Reducing Bias in PubMed Abstracts' in the Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing (BioNLP 2025) at ACL.
- - Paper 'Maximizing the Score in 'Ticket To Ride'' accepted for journal publication in IEEE Transactions on Games.
- - Paper 'Enhancing Complex Surgical Decision-Making with State-of-the-Art Reasoning Models' accepted for oral presentation at the 21st Annual Academic Surgical Congress (ASC), February 2026.
- - Paper 'Assessing the Reasoning Capabilities of State-of-the-Art Large Language Models in Complex Surgical Decision-Making Following Admission for Inguinal Hernia Repair' under review at SAGES 2026.
- - Paper 'Hippocrates-Karkinos-o1: An Enhanced Model for Oncology Decision Support and Guideline-Aware Reasoning with Self-Refinement and Guideline-Informed Retrieval' under review at NCCN 2026.
Research Experience
- - Leading a project in collaboration with eight surgeons from the Yale School of Medicine and a team of graduate students, exploring chain-of-thought reasoning in surgical decision-making at the YaleNLP Lab.
- - As a Head Teaching Assistant for CS50, instructed concepts like data structures and algorithms, provided crucial educational support during office hours, and managed a team of 35 other TAs.
- - As a Recruitment Coordinator for Yale Admissions, helped organize outreach events, interview applicants, and share experiences with prospective students to make the admissions process more accessible and personal.
Education
- Yale Undergraduate, Class of 2026; B.S., Computer Science; B.A., Humanities (Literature Concentration)
Background
- Research interests: the intersection of human language, medicine, and computation. Committed to building equitable language technologies that move beyond accuracy, drawing on her humanities background to ask how AI can better respect the human complexity within its data.
Miscellany
- Deeply involved in campus life, served as the president of Morse College, leading a council of students in building community and planning events for over 600 peers. Enjoys graphic design and similar creative pursuits.
