Katarina is a PhD student in the Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology on the Health and Clinical Informatics track. She is also a National Library of Medicine Fellowship awardee. Before coming to OHSU, Katarina received her B.S. and M.S. in Bioengineering from UCLA, where her research focused on developing a rapid Lyme disease assay and creating models to predict Lyme disease and other disorders such as epilepsy. Her current research interests include quantitatively and rigorously evaluating AI fairness and trustworthiness. Her research thus far has included work on fairness metrics that quantify algorithmic bias and conformal prediction to evaluate the accuracy of model predictions beyond heuristics. She also enjoys mentoring undergraduate and high school students to promote STEM passion from an early age. In her free time, she is an avid martial artist, birder, and illustrator.