Junyi Gao (高峻逸)
junyii.gao AT gmail DOT comPhD 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. I also work closely with Prof. Liantao Ma as an external research advisor at Peking University. Previously, I was a PhD student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign supervised by Prof. Jimeng Sun. Before UIUC, I worked with Prof. Yasha Wang at Peking University as a research assistant.
I work on AI for healthcare, including the following areas:
- Medical foundation models – Medical LLMs evaluation, alignment and agent-based applications
- Individual-level healthcare modelling – Clinical predictions with electronic health record (EHR) data
- Population-level epidemiological modelling – Spatio-temporal predictions for public health tasks
- Healthcare toolkits and platforms – Develop packages for Python and R AI4Health communities
News
- I won the first place in the Citadel Global PhD Datathon!
- Glad to announce that I received the Infrastructure Steering Committee (ISC) grant from the R-Consortium.
- We organized a seminar about Building trustworthy and accessible deep learning models with Peking University and Cell Press. I gave a talk about our ongoing research.
Education
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PhD Student, 2022 - Present
Funded by the HDR UK-Turing Wellcome PhD Programme
University of Edinburgh
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Master of Computer Science (Transferred from the PhD program), 2020 - 2022
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Bachelor of Engineering in Software Engineering, 2015 - 2019
Honored Graduate
Beihang University