Yifan Peng
Associate Professor
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolYifan Peng is an Associate Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine with 13 years of experience at the intersection of biomedical text mining and medical image analysis. Trained with a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Delaware and earlier degrees from Peking University and Beijing University of Technology, she combines deep academic rigor with practical research stints at NCBI and industry internships including Google. Her work blends BioNLP and machine learning to extract actionable knowledge from clinical texts and imaging, supporting translational research and healthcare applications. Having moved from research fellow to faculty leader, she brings a track record of bridging national research labs and medical school environments, often translating foundational algorithms into tools used by biomedical researchers. Not obvious from titles alone, she has a persistent pattern of short-term industry collaborations during her PhD that accelerated her focus on real-world biomedical data challenges.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of DelawareMaster Signal and Information Processing, Master Signal and Information Processing at Peking UniversityBachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Beijing University of Technology
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Github Skills (123)
transformers10
language-model10
reader10
python10
flax10
deep-learning10
genomics10
ct-images10
latex10
transformer10
nlp10
jax10
pubmed10
seq2seq10
negation10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
yfpeng/object_detection_metrics
Jun 2020 - Aug 2022
Object Detection Metrics
Contributions:50 commits, 49 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
perfsiftobject-detectionobject-detection-metricsrecall
ncbi-nlp/bluebert
Oct 2020 - Apr 2022
BlueBERT, pre-trained on PubMed abstracts and clinical notes (MIMIC-III).
Contributions:1 release, 12 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 5 months
mimic-iiipytorchlanguage-modelpubmed-abstractsnotes
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