Xiaoyi Zhang
Graduate Research Assistant
United States
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Top SchoolXiaoyi Zhang is a PhD candidate in Biomedical Informatics at the University of Washington with seven years of experience building data-driven solutions for healthcare and population research. At the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs they led the development of a national-scale data infrastructure used in a multi-year NIH/DoD survey and launched research using language models to surface gaps in care quality measurement. Their work at UW Medicine focuses on explainable ML for chronic disease management and on preserving model fidelity through complex enterprise data migrations. Earlier research at NYU explored cross-task transfer learning with BERT and applied deep learning to social media signals of socio-economic health risks. Xiaoyi blends rigorous applied research, production-grade data engineering, and a strong quantitative background (BS in Applied Math and BA in Chemistry) to translate clinical text and large-scale data into actionable insights. Colleagues describe their approach as both methodical and pragmatic—prioritizing interpretability and systems robustness in high-stakes healthcare settings.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Data Science, Master of Science - MS, Data Science at New York UniversityBachelor's degree, B.S. in Applied Mathematics; B.A. in Chemistry, 3.85/4.00, Bachelor's degree, B.S. in Applied Mathematics; B.A. in Chemistry, 3.85/4.00 at Emory UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical and Health Informatics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical and Health Informatics at University of Washington - School of MedicineHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Nanjing Foreign Language School
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (17)
capstone9
transfer-learning9
nlp8
tsne8
transformers7
bert7
tensorboard6
cds6
similarity6
python6
regex6
pytorch6
philosophy5
machine-learning4
lda1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
szyyn95/SE_duplicate_loader
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:25 commits, 3 pushes in 13 days
xiaoyizy/General-language-models-on-MIMIC-III
Sep 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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