Namu Park
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biomedical Informatics
Bio
Dr. Park is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Center for Biomedical Informatics Research at Stanford University, where he is co-advised by Dr. Tina Hernandez-Boussard and Dr. Yair Bannet. He received his PhD in Biomedical and Health Informatics from the University of Washington.
His research focuses on clinical natural language processing and large language models for healthcare. He develops clinically grounded information extraction methods and evaluation frameworks that reflect real-world clinical workflows. His work examines how large language models can be aligned with clinical reasoning and rigorously evaluated for safe and effective deployment in health systems.
Through interdisciplinary collaboration, Dr. Park aims to bridge advances in foundation models with measurable clinical impact, emphasizing reliability, transparency, and scalability in AI-driven healthcare applications.
Professional Education
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PhD, University of Washington, Biomedical & Health Informatics (2025)