Zonghai Yao
Research Assistant at College of Information and Computer Sciences, UMass Amherst
Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolZonghai Yao is a Ph.D. candidate and research assistant at UMass Amherst with nine years of experience building AI-driven NLP and clinical systems. His work centers on Medical-LLMs, multi-agent AI hospital simulations, clinical reasoning, synthetic data, and patient education, blending deep research with human-alignment studies from summer internships at Abridge. He has practical experience applying modern transformer models to real-world problems—from paraphrase identification and intent recognition in industry internships to ontology alignment with box embeddings in academic projects. As a TA for multiple ML and NLP courses, he pairs teaching experience with hands-on research mentorship. Based in Amherst, he brings a pragmatic focus on aligning models to clinician feedback and patient outcomes, driven by a quiet persistence captured by his GitHub motto: “keep going.”
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Nankai UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Massachusetts AmherstProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
seasonyao/reranking_LM
Mar 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 34 pushes in 8 months
seasonyao/Zero-Shot-Entity-Linking
Feb 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:38 commits, 71 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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