About Me

I am a research-track Assistant Professor of Nursing Data Science since 2024, affiliated with the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing’s Center for Data Science at Emory University.
I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Informatics at Laney Graduate School, Emory University, advised by Dr. Carl Yang in Emory Graph Mining Lab. I also worked closely with Dr. Jinho Choi in syntactic parsing, Dr. Yuanzhe Xi in kernel methods (Gaussian processes), Dr. Xiao Hu in physiological foundation model.
Prior to joining Emory, I was a visiting student at Arizona State University, advised by Dr. Yezhou Yang. Before that, I receieved my bachelor and master degrees from BUPT and worked in industry for several years.

My research interests include AI for healthcare, large language models, knowledge graph, multimodal learning.
[Openings] I’m looking for motivated students/interns for research projects. Undergraduate students are encouraged to reach out.

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Students Worked with Me

  • [2024-now] Simon Liu. Undergrad at Emory.
  • [2024-now] Katie Shao. Undergrad at Emory.
  • [2024-now] Tung Dinh. Honors Undergrad at Emory (Thesis committee).
  • [2022-2023] Yongchen Qian. Undergrad at Emory; first position: M.S. of Software Engineering at CMU.
  • [2021-2023] Jacob Choi. Undergrad at Emory; first position: M.S. of Computer Science at USC.

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