This page contains current faculty, postdocs, PhD students, and staff members. See also our alumni and affiliates.
[Updated October 2024]


Faculty


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Hong Yu, PhD (PI)

Prof. Hong Yu is a Professor at Miner School of Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Lowell, Adjunct Professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst and University of Massachuestts Chan Medical School. She is also a research health scientist at Bedford Veterans Affairs Healthcare System. Prof. Yu is an elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. She received PhD from the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. Her research focuses on information retrieval and natural language processing and their applications to the biomedical and healthcare domain.



Postdocs


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Feiyun Ouyang, PhD (Lowell)

Dr. Ouyang is a postdoctoral research associate at the department of Computer Science at UMass Lowell since 2023. She received PhD from the Department of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics at Central South University, China. Her research focuses on the epidemiology and influential factors of mental health and cardiovascular diseases.



PhD Students


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Rumeng (Alice) Li (Amherst)

Clinical Information extraction, predictive modeling

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Avijit Mitra (Amherst)

Clinical information extraction, predictive modeling, synthetic data generation

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Sunjae Kwon (Amherst)

NLP and medical informatics

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Zonghai Yao (Amherst)

Post-training, multi-agent systems, biomedical NLP

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Hieu Tran (Amherst)

LLMs, Instruction Tuning, Preference-based learning, RAG, Information Retrieval

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Junda Wang (Amherst)

LLMs, Retriever, Multimodality, Multi-agents system, chatbot

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Rohan Pandey (Amherst)

Trusworthy language modeling, predictive modeling, data imputation

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Sharmin Sultana (Lowell)

Predictive modeling, Medical information retrieval

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Won Seok Jang (Lowell)

Medical information retrieval, LLM-assisted patient education, multimodal LLMs

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Yifan Zhang (Lowell)

Predictive modeling, EHR data imputation

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Mingchen Li (Amherst)

Knowledge graphs, LLMs, Graph mining



Masters / Visiting Students


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Xingyu Bian (Amherst)

Medical LLMs, LLM Evaluation, RAG

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Chaolong Tang

LLM evaluations, Reliable LLM reasoning, Multi-agent systems

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Jiatan Huang (Visiting)

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Sai Kiran Gandluri (Lowell)

Multimodal LLMs, Alignment, RAG, Predictive Modeling

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Siva H

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Youxia Zhao



Staff Members


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Minhwa Lee, MS
(Research Staff @ Lowell)


Human-AI collaboration, LLM evaluation, computational epidemiology

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Emily Druhl, MPH
(Veterans Affairs)


EHR Annotation, VA IRB management

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Wen Hu, MS
(Research Staff @ Lowell)


Data analysis, VA Data Management

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Kathryn Dennison
(Project Administrator @ Lowell)


Administrative tasks



Alumni