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.

Latest News

• [Nov 2024]: Many thanks to Atlanta Interdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Network for funding our AI.humanity project “Understanding Generative AI’s Impact to Users from Various Religious Background” under the Seed Grants program.
• [Mar 2024]: I’m honored to receive the MCBIOS Young Scientist Excellence Award (4th-place winner). Thanks the MCBIOS committee!
• [Mar 2024]: our survey on Domain Speciliazation of LLM is honorably mentioned by the 2024 Economic Report of the President from the White House (LinkIn post»)
• [Oct 2023]: our paper on multimodal learning has been accepted by Findings of EMNLP’23. This is a co-first author paper with Yongchen Qian. Yongchen was a undergrad at Emory and he contributed a lot to this project. It is always my pleasure to work with motivated students.
• [June 2023]: present my LLM solution for biomedical knowledge fusion in the Doctoral Symposium of Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning’2023 at Cambridge, MA.
• [May 2023]: start my internship at Google X–Mineral, Mountain View, CA this summer. Please check out our work about building trustworthy multimodal LLMs at arXiv».
• [Spring 2023]: several papers get accepted in the warm spring😸 Two of them are my first-author papers– GT-D2G (concept map generation) by IEEE TKDE, and HiPrompt (biomedical knowledge fusion) by SIGIR’23. Others are joint works with my amazing collaborators– closed-book QG with Xiangjue Dong (question generation) by EACL, and Cellcano (cell type identification) with Wenjing Ma by Nature Communications.

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.

Publications