Lucy Wang
Assistant Professor at University of Washington
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolLucy Wang is an Assistant Professor and computational linguist specializing in NLP and data science for extracting and analyzing information from scientific and biomedical texts, with 11 years of experience spanning academia and research labs. She completed a PhD in Biomedical Informatics at the University of Washington after training in physics (MIT) and biomedical engineering (Johns Hopkins), and served as a Postdoctoral Investigator at the Allen Institute for AI working on Semantic Scholar. Her work blends rigorous biomedical domain knowledge with practical text-mining and trend-analysis techniques to surface research insights and improve scientific communication. Known for navigating both research and engineering roles—from software development in medical technology to large-scale NLP research—she brings a rare combination of experimental, computational, and domain expertise. Based in Seattle, she focuses on building NLP systems that not only interpret biomedical language but also reveal meta-level patterns in how science evolves.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyJohns Hopkins University
Github Skills (57)
parser10
corpus10
acl10
matching10
pdf2json10
get-started9
matcher9
python9
machine-learning9
computational-linguistics9
phonetics9
gpu9
deep-learning9
topic-modeling9
nlp9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
NCBI-Hackathons/phenotypeXpression
Jul 2018 - Dec 2018
Subclassification of disease states based on the intersection of literature and expression
Contributions:83 commits, 39 PRs, 62 pushes in 5 months
literaturedisease
allenai/cord19
Aug 2020 - Oct 2022
Get started with CORD-19
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 2 months
cord-19get-started
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