Yanjun Gao
Co-Director, Center For Health AI (CHAI) at University of Colorado Anschutz
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolYanjun Gao is an assistant professor and Co-Director of the Center for Health AI at the University of Colorado Anschutz, specializing in clinical natural language processing and safe large language model development. With a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Penn State and over a decade of experience, she builds and evaluates novel NLP methods—spanning automated text-generation evaluation, semantic representations, and graph-based approaches—with direct applications in healthcare and critical care medicine. Her lab, Language, Reasoning and Knowledge (LRK), focuses on translating cutting-edge AI into practical, safety-minded tools for medicine while rigorously measuring their performance. After a postdoc in critical care data science at UW–Madison, she brings deep domain integration experience that bridges research rigor and clinical impact. Notably, she has worked on multimodal pipelines and emphasizes automated evaluation as a way to make generative models more reliable in high-stakes settings. Based in Denver, she combines academic leadership with hands-on research to shape safer, more interpretable AI for health.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Electronic Commerce, Bachelor's Degree, Electronic Commerce at Harbin Finance UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Engineering at Penn State University
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (36)
markdown10
seq2seq10
jekyll10
jekyll-theme9
github-pages9
html9
text-generation7
pytorch7
summarization7
image-text7
natural-language-processing6
bert6
machine-learning6
extraction6
medical5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
serenayj/ABCD-ACL2021
May 2021 - Oct 2021
ABCD: A Graph Framework to Convert Complex Sentences to a Covering Set of Simple Sentences
Contributions:11 commits, 5 pushes, 4 comments in 4 months
graph-framework
psunlpgroup/RL-Reading-Group-Fall18-
Nov 2018 - Apr 2019
Our weekly reading group where we discuss Reinforcement Learning approaches in the domain of Natural Language Processing.
Contributions:9 PRs, 15 pushes in 5 months
natural-language-processingreinforcement-learning
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