Madhurima Vardhan

Dr Madhurima Vardhan is an Assistant Professor in Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington and the Principal Investigator of the Computational Thinking Laboratory. A biomedical scientist by training (Ph.D., Duke University) she specializes in advancing digital health by leveraging generative AI, high-performance computing, physics-based modeling, she brings extensive experience serving as an Assistant Computational Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and Visiting Research Faculty at Google Research. Her research has been supported by highly competitive awards, including the ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship, the American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship, and the Aleane Webber Dissertation Research Fellowship and was recognized as a Rising Star in Computational and Data Sciences and Young Researcher in the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum.

Research Areas

Specializing in computational health, Madhurima Vardhan leverages Generative Artificial Intelligence, High Performance Computing, and Physics-based modeling to advance personalized disease diagnosis and treatment. Her research is focussed on developing trustworthy and scalable AI models designed to aid clinical decision-making and non-invasive diagnosis. Her work emphasizes the creation of smart medicine technology using Large Language Models for the identification of novel disease biomarkers through clinical data mining, computational fluid dynamics, and the development of empathetic, AI-driven models that integrate behavioral science with patient physiology to empower patients for enhancing their long-term wellness. Dr Vardhan welcomes students to collaborate on 2-3 credit hours of research in her lab as independent studies or senior theses.

• Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University, 2021
• M.S. in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University, 2015
• B.E. in Engineering at Delhi College of Engineering, India, 2013