I’m a researcher on the Health AI team at OpenAI. I’m also a faculty member at the University of Calgary.
I joined OpenAI in November 2023. Public work includes HealthBench, a health evaluation used across the industry; improving model performance in health; and one of the first real-world studies of clinicians using language models in patient care.
Before OpenAI:
- I co-founded the digital health company Alethea Medical, which is now used by 50% of family physicians in Alberta.
- I did a PhD in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, where I was a Rhodes Scholar.
- As a first-year PhD student, I joined the faculty of the University of Calgary to lead a research group in health informatics. My research group obtained nearly $2M USD in funding and published more than 20 articles.
- We used large-scale data to study infection and immunity, with the World Health Organization and the Public Health Agency of Canada.
- We also studied how to automate evidence synthesis, a direction some team members are continuing with the company Otto SR.
You can reach me by email.
Highlighted research
HealthBench: Evaluating Large Language Models Towards Improved Human Health [OpenAI]. Rahul K. Arora, Jason Wei, Rebecca Soskin Hicks, Preston Bowman, Joaquin Quiñonero-Candela, Foivos Tsimpourlas, Michael Sharman, Meghan Shah, Andrea Vallone, Alex Beutel, Johannes Heidecke, Karan Singhal.
AI-based Clinical Decision Support for Primary Care: A Real-World Study [OpenAI]. Robert Korom*, Sarah Kiptinness*, Najib Adan, …, Rahul K. Arora*, Karan Singhal*.
GPT-5 improvements in health [OpenAI]. OpenAI Health AI team, including Rahul K. Arora.
Protective effectiveness of previous SARS-CoV-2 infection and hybrid immunity against the Omicron variant and severe disease: a systematic review and meta-regression. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Niklas Bobrovitz, Harriet Ware, Xiaomeng Ma, …, Rahul K. Arora*, Minal K. Patel*, Lorenzo Subissi*.
Global SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence from January 2020 to April 2022: a systematic review and meta-analysis of standardized population-based studies. PLOS Medicine. Isabel Bergeri*, Mairead G. Whelan*, Harriet Ware*, Lorenzo Subissi*, …, Niklas Bobrovitz**, Rahul K. Arora**, Maria D. Van Kerkhove**.
SeroTracker: a global SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence dashboard. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Rahul K. Arora, Abel Joseph, Jordan Van Wyk, …, David L. Buckeridge.
