Bio


Malvika Pillai is a postdoctoral research fellow in the VA Big Data Scientist Training Enhancement Program (BD-STEP), jointly in Stanford University in Medicine (Biomedical Informatics) in the Boussard Lab and VA Palo Alto. She received her BS in Quantitative Biology and PhD in Health Informatics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her current work focuses on the development, evaluation and implementation of machine learning algorithms for clinical decision support.

Professional Education


  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2022)
  • Bachelor of Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (2017)
  • PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Health Informatics (2022)
  • BS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Quantitative Biology (2017)

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