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About
👋 Hi! I am a Healthcare AI Researcher at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) and NASA. My passion focuses on solving our biomedicine and healthcare problems with AI. My current work spans Alzheimer’s Disease dementia detection, Knee Osteoarthritis (OA) risk prediction, and clinical information retrieval and natural language processing. I graduated with my master’s degree in public policy and data analytics at CMU’s Heinz College. Before CMU, I worked in product management and strategy in the internet and telecom industry in Hong Kong.
💡Highlights:
- UCSF
- Awarded third place at the QBI Hackathon organized by UCSF Quantitative Biosciences Institute! We are continuing the project and are happy to have UC Berkeley Professor Abby Dernburg and Professor Nicholas Ingolia as our advisors!
- Poster - Microsoft Research
- Presented a Poster MedAI: Addressing Healthcare Burnout with AI-Powered Solution at the Task Focused IR in the Era of Generative AI workshop co-hosted by Microsoft Research and the Univ. of Washington!
- Gingko Bioworks and Twist Bioscience
- Won the Gold Medal at the Boston Nonaworks Software x Biology Hackathon 2023 for our work in biomedical information retrieval and NLP with a panel of judges from Gingko Bioworks and Twist Bioscience!
- Preprint - CMU Libraries
- Coauthored my first Preprint on Generative AI and Knowledge Graph after participating a bioinformatics Hacakthon organized by CMU Libraries
🤝 Current and Past Collaborators:
- 🧪 Computational Biology and Experimental Biology:
- CMU: Prof. Wei Wu
- Pitt: Prof. Natasa Miskov-zivanov
- UIUC: Prof. Haohan Wang
- UC Berkeley: Prof. Abby Dernburg, and Prof. Nicholas Ingolia
- ⚕️ Medicine and Healthcare:
- Pitt: Prof. Yanshan Wang, and Prof. Ahmad P. Tafti
- UIUC: Prof. Jimeng Sun
- 🖥️ Data Science:
- CMU: Prof. Gabriela Gongora-Svartzman
⚕️📚 Research:
2023
November:
I have started working on a three-phase proof-of-concept project with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as Space Health Data Scientist (Consultant)!
I am glad to share that I am joining the PittNAIL at the University of Pittsburgh as a Healthcare AI Researcher under the supervision of Professor Yanshan Wang - working on Clinical NLP with UPMC!
September:
I am glad to share that I am joining the Pitt HexAI Lab at the University of Pittsburgh as a Healthcare Explainable AI Researcher under the supervision of Professor Ahmad P. Tafti - working on applying Computer Vision to solve osteoarthritis-related problems!
Our work MedAI has been accepted at the Task Focused IR in the Era of Generative AI co-hosted by Microsoft Research and the Univ. of Washington!
I am attending various AI in healthcare / biomedicine event organized by Harvard Medical School / Mass General Brigham in Boston!
June:
- I will be attending the AIMI Symposium in person organized by the Stanford Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine and Imaging (AIMI Center) at Stanford University !
April:
- I have been selected to participate in an ML in Healthcare summer research camp at UIUC and I am happy to have Professor Jimeng Sun. and Ph.D. student Zhen Lin as my advisors!
🧑💻🏆 Hackathons and Competitions:
2023
November:
- Our team got third place at the University of California San Francisco QBI Hackathon 2023! We are continuing the project and are happy to have UC Berkeley Professor Abby Dernburg and Professor Nicholas Ingolia as our advisors!
September:
- Our team attended the IWBDA and won the Gold Medal at the Nonaworks Hackathon 2023 for our work on Phenotype Entity Recognition Model. It’s awesome to learn ML in Biology and Synthetic Biology in Boston!
August:
Our team has been awarded third place at the Emory Health AI Bias Datathon ‘23 organized by the Emory University School of Medicine !
Our project “ROAD System: Reducing Opioid Overdoses and Deaths in PA” has been selected by an audience of healthcare professionals and patient advocates for People’s Choice Award at the Health Care Redesign Expo. Kudos to my best patient safety fellows!
July:
- I am excited to share that our team of Healthcare and ML domain experts has been shortlisted as Finalist of the Generative AI Innovation Incubator at CMU - Medicine and Public Health Track!
June:
- Our team has been selected as Top 3 in the Machine Learning Category in the SAS Hackathon !
May:
- Passionate about Responsible AI in Healthcare, I have been selected by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation as a Feinstein Patient Safety Fellow to work on patient safety issues in the US !
April:
- I am attending the MIT Hacking Medicine - Grand Hack 2023 in person at MIT !
Book(s) I am reading:
The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future by Alec Ross
Hands-On Healthcare Data by Andrew Nguyen
The Hospital by Brian Alexander
The Genesis Machine by Amy Webb and Andrew Hessel
My favorite quotes:
“Love is at the root of everything. All learning, all parenting, all relationships. Love, or the lack of it.” - Fred Rogers
“My heart is in the work.” - Andrew Carnegie
“Never Settle for Less.” - DBS
Three Blind Men and the Elephant - Indian Parable
Things other than ML I enjoy doing:
Hiking 🥾 Camping 🏕️ Roadtrip 🚗 Reading 📖 Music - esp. Rachmaninoff 🎵 🚀
