Yingcheng Sun

Yingcheng Sun is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG). He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Case Western Reserve University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University's Department of Biomedical Informatics. His research focuses on Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, and Biomedical Informatics, with applications in clinical trial optimization, healthcare data analysis, and web text mining.

Key projects include the development of the Clinical Trial Knowledge Base and the COVID-19 Trial Finder, tools designed to streamline patient recruitment and eligibility assessment for clinical trials. Sun's work also explores conversational structure analysis in online discussions and spam detection in short texts.

He has received notable awards such as the DjangoCon US 2024 Opportunity Grant and the Generative AI Implementation Grant. His advising includes Maximilian Doerr, who successfully defended their thesis in 2024. Sun maintains an active GitHub profile with repositories focused on clinical informatics and NLP tools.