Chih-hsuan Wei
Staff Scientist at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolChih-hsuan Wei is a Staff Scientist with eight years at NCBI building AI-driven biomedical text-mining platforms and state-of-the-art deep learning tools for entity and relation extraction. He led development of widely used services such as PubTator and LitVar, co-created the BioRED corpus, and delivered high-throughput APIs serving hundreds of millions of calls that power semantic search across biomedical resources. His work bridges research and production: from founding tmVar and GNorm2 to deploying scalable web services integrated with PubChem, UniProt, and GWAS Catalog. An NIH multi-award recipient, he combines a PhD in computer science with hands-on annotation leadership and a knack for turning complex biomedical language challenges into robust, user-facing tools.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at National Cheng Kung UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science and Education, Master's degree, Computer Science and Education at National Tainan University
Github Skills (4)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ChihHsuanWei/FormatConverter
Feb 2018 - Aug 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 7 months
ncbi/GNorm2
May 2023 - Feb 2026
Contributions:11 pushes, 7 comments in 2 years 10 months
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