Nigam Shah

Nigam Shah is the Chief Data Scientist at Stanford Medicine whose research on clinical natural language processing and language models for mining electronic health records has advanced AI applications in oncology. His work on using NLP to extract cancer-relevant information from clinical notes, generate real-world evidence for oncology, and develop clinical decision support tools has demonstrated practical LLM value in cancer care. His research on responsible implementation of AI in healthcare systems has been influential in guiding institutional adoption strategies.