Nimeesha Chan
PhD Student

Nimeesha Chan

PhD Candidate
Biography

Nimeesha Chan is a PhD student in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering (CaSE), the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE), the Institute for Assured Autonomy (IAA), and the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare at Johns Hopkins University. She has served as Secretary for the INFORMS JHU student chapter and as a board member for the Civil and Systems Engineering Graduate Association (CSEGA). Nimeesha is passionate about using machine learning to model patient state from multimodal medical data - across different physiological processes and time scales. Her research has focused on augmenting Large Language Models (LLMs) to analyze diverse data types in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), with applications to understanding and improving patient-ventilator interactions. She aims to advance the integration of data-driven methods with physiological modeling, particularly in understanding cardiopulmonary interactions and how different patient data sources can reveal finer-grained insights into clinical state.

Projects

Selected publications

2025
Eliciting Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Time Series Analysis using Reinforcement Learning

Parker F, Chan N, Zhang C, Ghobadi K · arXiv preprint

2025
Augmenting LLMs for General Time Series Understanding and Prediction

Parker F, Chan N, Zhang C, Ghobadi K · arXiv preprint

2025
MedTsLLM: Medical Time Series Analysis Using Multimodal LLMs

Chan N, Parker F, Zhang C, Bennett W, Jia MY, Fackler J, Ghobadi K · IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.

2024
Medtsllm: Leveraging llms for multimodal medical time series analysis

Nimeesha Chan, Felix Parker, William Bennett, Tianyi Wu, Mung Yao Jia, James Fackler, Kimia Ghobadi · arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.07773

2024
Leveraging LLMs for multimodal medical time series analysis

Chan N, Parker F, Bennett W, Wu T, Jia MY, Fackler J, Ghobadi K · Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference.

Medtsllm: Leveraging llms for multimodal medical time series analysis, 2024

Nimeesha Chan, Felix Parker, William Bennett, Tianyi Wu, Mung Yao Jia, James Fackler, Kimia Ghobadi · URL https://arxiv. org/abs/2408.07773