Yugang Jia
Senior Staff Research Scientist Manager at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYugang Jia is a senior research scientist and engineering leader with a decade of experience applying big data and machine learning to healthcare datasets—from payers and devices to EHRs—and three years managing AI and data science teams. He has driven technology transfer at scale, contributing 20 innovations to Philips that unlocked multiple $100M business opportunities and holds 36 grants or pending patents. His work spans industry and academia, lecturing at MIT on health equity and AI safety in critical care while leading multimodal and LLM research at Verily and now Google. He blends signal-processing roots (PhD in statistical signal processing) with an MPH in epidemiology to build clinically grounded predictive models and decision tools. Known for translating prototypes into productionized consulting offerings and tooling, he also publishes on bias mitigation and zero-shot trajectory prediction for critical care. Based in Greater Boston, he pairs rigorous research with commercial impact across healthcare productization and policy-relevant analytics.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Public Health - MPH Epidemiology, Master of Public Health - MPH Epidemiology at Harvard UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Statistical Signal Processing and Wireless Communication, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Statistical Signal Processing and Wireless Communication at University of Bristol
English
Github Skills (12)
icu10
database7
data-management3
open-source2
keras1
deep-learning1
aws1
embedding1
tensorflow1
clustering1
survival1
sagemaker1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
yugangjia/ELOS-MIMICIV
Sep 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
yugangjia/SOFA_Component
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:17 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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