Xi Yang
Advisor-GenAI AADS at Eli Lilly and Company
Orlando, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXi Yang is an AI and quantitative scientist with a decade of experience translating academic rigor into production-ready GenAI and data-driven solutions. Currently advising GenAI efforts at Eli Lilly's AADS, Xi has held principal research and senior quantitative roles across healthcare-focused organizations including Autonomize AI, Verana Health, and UF Health. He holds a PhD and master's from the University of Florida and brings strengths in applied machine learning, scalable experimentation, and healthcare data management. Equally at home with Python and Scala, he blends pragmatic engineering with a researcher’s curiosity—evident in his academic publications and cross-disciplinary career path. Based in Orlando, Xi is focused on moving generative models from prototype to regulated, impact-driven deployments in life sciences.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Nankai UniversityMaster's degree, Master's degree at University of Florida
Chinese, English
Github Skills (78)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
transformer-models10
deep-learning10
relation10
multimodal10
scale10
transformer10
nlp10
jax10
entity10
relation-extraction10
speech-synthesis10
korean-nlp10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
uf-hobi-informatics-lab/ClinicalTransformerNER
Dec 2019 - May 2022
a library for named entity recognition developed by UF HOBI NLP lab featuring SOTA algorithms
Contributions:2 reviews, 128 commits, 20 PRs in 2 years 5 months
nlpnamed-entity-recognitionentity-recognitionentityrecognition
bugface/umass18-challenge
Feb 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 1 push in 10 months
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