High-Throughput Screening System @ Novartis
Oct 2020 – Jul 2022
Designed and built a system to scale cardiovascular drug phenotyping from 8 to 96 channels.
Posts by Collection
portfolio
MitoGAN
2023
GAN-based synthetic image generation for mitochondrial dynamics research.
Adversarial Robustness of Medical LLMs
2024
Testing how medical AI models fail under challenging clinical scenarios.
Multi-Agent Orchestration for Industry and Research
2025 – present
A framework of messaging-interfaced agents with multi-model routing and subagent deployment.
Evidence-Guided Clinical Trial Design
2025 – present
LLM pipelines and retrieval over 500K+ trials for eligibility criteria analysis and literature–trial matching, plus large-scale studies of how criteria evolve and whether trials adopt published recommendations.
AI Platform for an E-commerce Client
Feb – Mar 2025
One engineer + AI agents built 4 production systems in 14 days.
BULLPEN: Sample-Efficient LLM Profiling
2026
Multi-channel model-zoo embeddings for profiling LLMs with few samples.
publications
ScanAlert: Electronic Medication Monitor and Reminder to Improve Medical Adherence
Published in 2019 IEEE 9th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC), 2019
Electronic medication monitor and reminder system designed to improve medical adherence.
Assessing Biomedical Knowledge Robustness in Large Language Models by Query-Efficient Sampling Attacks
Published in Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2024
Adversarial entity sampling methods for probing medical LLM failure modes under clinical text distributional shifts.
RECITE: Revising Eligibility Criteria Incorporating Textual Evidence
Published in KDD 2026 (AI4Sciences track), 2026
Russell Ro, Reza Abbasi-Asl
From the Zoo to the BULLPEN: Sample-Efficient LLM Profiling via Multi-Channel Model Embeddings
Published in Under review, ICLR 2027, 2026
Russell Ro, Qiming Cui, Reza Abbasi-Asl