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Junyi Gao (高峻逸)

junyii.gao AT gmail DOT com

PhD Student

Biography

I’m a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh funded by the HDR UK-Turing Wellcome PhD Programme supervised by Prof. Ewen Harrison. Previously, I was a PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign supervised by Prof. Jimeng Sun. Before UIUC, I worked closely with Prof. Yasha Wang and Dr. Liantao Ma at Peking University as a research assistant.

My research focuses on deep-based clinical predictive modeling with electronic health record (EHR) data, population-level spatio-temporal healthcare predictions and clinical trial optimizations.

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Research Interests

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Data Mining
  • Healthcare

Education

  • PhD Student, 2022 - Present

    Funded by the HDR UK-Turing Wellcome PhD Programme

    University of Edinburgh

  • Master of Computer Science (Transferred from the PhD program), 2020 - 2022

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering, 2015 - 2019

    Honored Graduate

    Beihang University

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Research assistant

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Aug 2020 – May 2022 IL, United States Advisor: Prof. Jimeng Sun

My research includes:

  • Predictive modeling with knowledge graph
  • Population-level spatio-temporal prediction
 
 
 
 
 

Machine learning research intern

Analytics Center of Excellence, IQVIA

May 2019 – Present Beijing, China Advisor: Dr. Cao Xiao, Prof. Jimeng Sun

My research includes:

  • Deep computational phenotyping
  • Patient trial matching
 
 
 
 
 

Research assistant

Software Engineering Insisute, Peking University

Jan 2017 – Aug 2020 Beijing, China Advisor: Prof. Yasha Wang

My research includes:

  • Deep computational phenotyping
  • Interpretable predictive models for healthcare

Publications

(2022). The United States COVID-19 Forecast Hub dataset. Nature Scientific Data.

PDF Code Dataset DOI

Application Projects

Vaccine Hero

Machine Learning Powered Mobile HealthCare Unit for Addressing Childhood Vaccination Disparities

Dr. Vis

A visualization tool to help clinicians identify risky patients and cohorts

Healthcare platform for chronic diseases

A healthcare management platform that can automatically recognize food intake and lab test report

MUSEFood

Estimate food and nutrition intake by taking photos using your smartphone

Patents

  • A method and device of determining potentially important information of patients, CN 202010946290.4, (Under verification)
  • A method and system for sound wave and image-based food volume measurement on smart phone, CN 202010862933.7, (Under verification)

Media coverage & Professional service

Awards

  • 3rd prize, Predicting High Risk Breast Cancer: a Nightingale OS & AHLI data challenge (Top 3 out of all teams)
  • 3rd prize, Big Ten Augmented Intelligence Bowl (Top 3 out of all teams from US universities)
  • Honored Graduate of Beihang University
  • AAAI 2020 Student Travel Award
  • 2018 MCM/ICM Meritorious Winner (10%)
  • 2018 Beihang University Science and Technology Competition Scholarship (Top 1%)
  • 2018 Beihang University Academic Excellence Scholarship (Top 5%)
  • 2017 Beihang University Science and Technology Competition Scholarship (Top 1%)
  • 2016 Beihang University Feng Ru Cup Technology Innovation Competition 1st prize (10 out of candidates of all majors)

Teaching

I have served as a teaching assistant for the following courses at Beihang University:

  • Technical Writing for Graduate, Fall & Spring 2018
  • Program Design, Summer 2017