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most citedChatDiet: Empowering Personalized Nutrition-Oriented Food Recommender Chatbots through an LLM-Augmented Framework

115 citations · 119 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.LG2026

GoT-CD: Graph-of-Thoughts Causal Discovery and the Fragility of Post-hoc Path-Specific Fairness Audits

Nitish Nagesh, Elahe Khatibi, Thomas Dean Hughes +3

Causal discovery recovers directed structure from observational data and is increasingly used in clinical settings to support mechanism reasoning and fairness audits of predictive…

cs.LG2026

FairDiffuseVQVAE: Sampling-Time Fairness in Tabular Diffusion via Conditional Refinement of Vector-Quantized Latents

Nitish Nagesh, Mahdi Bagheri, Amir M. Rahmani

Synthetic tabular data is increasingly used in privacy-preserving data sharing, data augmentation, and to mitigate downstream classifier bias. State-of-the-art tabular diffusion mo…

cs.CL2026

Personal Care Utility: Health as Everyday Infrastructure

Mahyar Abbasian, Elahe Khatibi, Saba A. Farahani +5

Healthcare is essential, expert, and episodic by design - built around the roughly one hour per year a person spends with a clinician. The 8,759 hours outside clinical settings, wh…

cs.LG2026

Memisis: Orchestrating and Evaluating Synthetic Data for Tabular Health Datasets

Nitish Nagesh, Pengbao Zhou, Atchuth Naveen Chilaparasetti +8

Synthetic data is widely used in healthcare to create datasets that preserve statistical properties of real data without exposing sensitive patient information. Generating and eval…

cs.LG2026

Evaluating Causal Discovery Algorithms for Path-Specific Fairness and Utility in Healthcare

Nitish Nagesh, Elahe Khatibi, Thomas Hughes +3

Causal discovery in health data faces evaluation challenges when ground truth is unknown. We address this by collaborating with experts to construct proxy ground-truth graphs, esta…

cs.LG2025

Reflections from Research Roundtables at the Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL) 2025

Emily Alsentzer, Marie-Laure Charpignon, Bill Chen +90

The 6th Annual Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL 2025), hosted by the Association for Health Learning and Inference (AHLI), was held in person on June 25-27, 2025…

cs.LG2025

FairTabGen: High-Fidelity and Fair Synthetic Health Data Generation from Limited Samples

Nitish Nagesh, Salar Shakibhamedan, Mahdi Bagheri +4

Synthetic healthcare data generation offers a promising solution to research limitations in clinical settings caused by privacy and regulatory constraints. However, current synthet…

cs.LG2025

FairCauseSyn: Towards Causally Fair LLM-Augmented Synthetic Data Generation

Nitish Nagesh, Ziyu Wang, Amir M. Rahmani

Synthetic data generation creates data based on real-world data using generative models. In health applications, generating high-quality data while maintaining fairness for sensiti…

cs.IR2024★ 115 cited

ChatDiet: Empowering Personalized Nutrition-Oriented Food Recommender Chatbots through an LLM-Augmented Framework

Zhongqi Yang, Elahe Khatibi, Nitish Nagesh +4

The profound impact of food on health necessitates advanced nutrition-oriented food recommendation services. Conventional methods often lack the crucial elements of personalization…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

Knowledge-Infused LLM-Powered Conversational Health Agent: A Case Study for Diabetes Patients

Mahyar Abbasian, Zhongqi Yang, Elahe Khatibi +5

Effective diabetes management is crucial for maintaining health in diabetic patients. Large Language Models (LLMs) have opened new avenues for diabetes management, facilitating the…

eess.SP2019

Food Waste Estimation Using Received Signal Strength Indicator

Daniel Koohmarey, Nitish Nagesh

Food loss and waste is a problem with rising global recognition. Attempts to combat food waste at institutional levels such as college campus dining halls require insight into food…