Spring 2023, Tampa.

           


RESEARCH AREAS:
  • Psychiatric epidemiology
  • AI for healthcare
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Clinical Informatics

  • AFFILIATION:
  • Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
  • Department of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
  • Department of Urology, Boston Children's Hospital





  • Hi, I'm a first-year PhD student in the Epidemiology department at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. I'm on the neuropsychiatric track and my research interest is in healthcare AI. I'm consistently looking for collaboration on AI + mental health topics :)


    Academic Timeline

    PhD in Population Health Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA    Fall 2023 - Spring 2028
    • Research Assistant II: Department of Urology, Boston Children's Hospital   [Spring 2023 - Present]
    Master of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA    Fall 2021 - Spring 2022
    • Research Assistant: Department of Internal Medicine, Brigham Women's Hospital   [Fall 2021 - Present]
    • Research Assistant II: Department of Anesthesia, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center   [Summer 2022]
    Undergraduate Visiting Student Program, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA    Fall 2020 - Spring 2021
    • Research Assistant: Language Learning Lab @Boston College with Joshua Hartshorne   [Fall 2020 - Fall 2021]
    • Research Intern: Mass General Hospital with Jennifer Haas   [Summer 2020 - Spring 2021]
    • Research Assistant : Harvard Medical School with Tianxi Cai   [Summer 2020 - Spring 2021]
    Bachelor of Arts, Smith College, Northampton, MA    Fall 2017 - Spring 2021

    Conference Talks (presenting)

    • [3/2024] One Model Fits All? High-performing Multi-task Model of Urinary Tract Dilation (UTD) Classification Using NLP for Neonatal Ultrasound Reports. AMIA Informatics summit, Boston, MA
    • [3/2024] Wise Instance Selection Algorithms Help Reduce Annotation Work in Multi-Task Multi-Class Urinary Tract Dilation Prediction. AMIA Informatics summit, Boston, MA
    • [3/2024] Identifying Psychosis Episodes in Admission Notes: A Comparative Study of Rule-based Methods, Machine Learning Algorithms, and Pre-Trained Language Models. AMIA Informatics summit, Boston, MA
    • [12/2023] Benchmarking Large Language Models on CMExam--A Comprehensive Chinese Medical Exam Dataset. NeurIPS, New Orleans, LA
    • [11/2023] Streamlining Social Media Information Retrieval for Public Health Research with Deep Learning. AMIA Annual Symposium, New Orleans, LA
    • [06/2023] Streamlining Social Media Information Retrieval for Public Health Research with Deep Learning. The 11th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Huston, TX.
    • [06/2023] A Deep Learning-driven Approach for Transgender and Gender Diverse Patient Identification in EHRs. The 11th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Huston, TX.
    • [04/2023] Contemporary treatment and outcomes of myasthenia gravis in the United States. The 75th American academy of neurology annual meeting, Boston, MA.
    • [11/2022] Identification of transgender and gender diverse individuals in electronic health records. AMIA Annual Symposium, Washington, D.C.
    • [11/2022] Using Twitter to Understand Public Perceptions of COVID-19 Drugs. AMIA Annual Symposium, Washington, D.C.
    • [12/2021] Quantifying the bilingual (dis) advantage in vocabulary acquisition. The Asia-Pacific Babylab Constellation Conference , Hongkong.

    Awards

    • Best poster, the 11th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, 2023
    • Spotlight long paper, the 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022
    • Distinguished poster, the AMIA Annual Symposium, 2022
    • Outstanding student researcher, the Sigma Xi honor society, 2021
    • Student scholarship, the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, 2020
    • The Dean's List, Smith College, 2017 - 2020

    Review Service

    • The Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR)
    • The Journal of American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA)
    • The International Journal of Medical Informatics (IJMI)
    • The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, 2023
    • The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Informatics Summit, 2023
    • The 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING), 2022
    • The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium, 2022

    Teaching


    Other Service

    • Co-chair: Department of Seminar, the Harvard Chinese Students and Scholars Association, 2021-2022
    • Organizer and Moderator: Forum of Society and Culture, Harvard China Alumni Conference 2022
    • Ph.D. Debate moderator: AI Time, Tsinghua University, China, 11/2020 - 05/2021
    • Fellow: Department of Seminar, the Harvard Chinese Students and Scholars Association, 2020-2021
    • Teacher, The MIT Educational Studies Program, Fall 2020
    • Academic coach fellow, Project Coach, Smith College, Spring 2020
    • Volunteer: APS Conferences for Undergraduate Women in Physics, UMass Amherst, 01/2019

    Miscellaneous

    Examining the Impact of QuickReads Technology and Print Formats on Fluency, Comprehension, and Vocabulary Development for Elementary Students.
    Summarized by Yining Hua, directed by Luke W. Miratrix
    JREE 2021
    [Summerization]



    Last edited: 04/13/2023