Hong Yu

Hong Yu is an Adjunct Professor at UMass Chan Medical School, affiliated with the Department of Medicine and the Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology program. She holds positions at both UMass Chan Medical School and the T.H. Chan School of Medicine. Her work focuses on information retrieval, natural language processing (NLP), and human-computer interaction with applications in biomedical informatics.

Education:

• Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
• Master of Science in Physiology, Beijing Normal University, China
• Master of Arts and Master of Philosophy in Physiology & Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, USA
• PhD in Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, USA

Research & Contributions:

• Developed systems like AskHERMES (clinical QA system), ADErepository (pharmacovigilance), and FigureSearch (biomedical figure search)
• Focus on NLP applications for medical text summarization, clinical question answering, and figure-based information retrieval
• PI of NIH-funded projects and editorial board member of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics

Awards & Recognition:

• NLM pre-doctoral grant recipient and 1 of 6 'star trainees' at NLM's 175th anniversary
• Best Paper Nomination (AMIA 1999) and IMIA Yearbook recognition (2011)
• Featured in Science, Nature, and Pulitzer-winning publications

Labs & Teams: Leads teams developing clinical decision support systems, NLP tools for electronic health records, and patient-aided medical communication platforms like ClinicalNotesAid.