Chufan Gao
Research Scientist at Google
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolChufan Gao is a research scientist specializing in natural language processing and machine learning for healthcare, currently working on MedGemma at Google after completing a PhD in Computer Science at UIUC. With nine years of research experience spanning CMU, UPMC collaborations, and industry internships at Optum and Medidata, Chufan focuses on applied NLP for clinical data, synthetic EHR generation, and biomedical entity recognition. Their work bridges foundational research and practical healthcare applications, including contributions to Health LLMs during a Google research internship. Trained at Carnegie Mellon (MS) and Purdue (BS), they combine rigorous academic methods with production-minded experimentation in Palo Alto. An interesting thread through their career is repeatedly translating generative models (GANs, synthetic EHRs, and LLMs) into tools that address clinical data scarcity and privacy challenges.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Purdue UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
preprocessing10
data-mining10
clinical-research10
python9
survival-analysis9
deep-learning9
regression8
causal-inference8
lime7
graphical-models7
machine-learning6
xai6
relation-extraction6
survival6
weak-supervision5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chufangao/pcalg
Oct 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:14 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
chufangao/3D_GAN_Lung_Nodules
Jun 2018 - Jun 2020
GAN code for generating lung nodule ct scans
Contributions:46 commits, 2 PRs, 62 pushes in 1 year 11 months
ct-scansnoduleganscanslung-nodule
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