Tian Kang
Staff Machine Learning Scientist at Tempus AI
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTian Kang is a Staff Machine Learning Scientist with a decade of experience building LLM- and NLP-driven systems for healthcare, currently leading R&D and technical direction for Clinical AI at Tempus. He combines a Columbia PhD in Biomedical Informatics with hands-on engineering to transform unstructured clinical notes and biomedical text into production-ready clinical decision support and precision medicine tools. Tian bridges research and deployment, guiding cross-functional teams to translate generative AI advances into scalable architectures, evaluation frameworks, and real-world impact. His background in immune repertoire analysis and genome assembly gives him uncommon depth in biomedical data processing beyond typical NLP expertise. Known for mentoring scientists and identifying high-impact opportunities, he focuses on clinically grounded system design that moves beyond isolated models to robust clinical intelligence platforms. Based in New York, his work centers on unlocking the value of unstructured medical data with LLMs and applied AI system design.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, bioinformatics technology, Bachelor's degree, bioinformatics technology at Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biomedical Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (21)
sequence8
ctc8
facebook8
pytorch7
artificial-intelligence7
python7
transformer-architecture7
sequence-to-sequence7
nlp7
conformer6
natural-language-processing6
machine-learning6
pubmed5
bert2
classification1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Tian312/EliIE
May 2016 - Jan 2019
Contributions:50 commits, 2 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Tian312/PICO_Parser
Nov 2018 - Oct 2020
Contributions:47 commits, 69 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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