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Hong Yu is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, affiliated with the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval and the Biomedical Informatics Natural Language Processing (BioNLP) Laboratory. Her research focuses on computational biology, bioinformatics, and biomedical applications of information retrieval, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction. She has developed systems like AskHERMES (a biomedical Q&A tool) and NoteAid (to aid patient comprehension of medical records).
Education includes a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Columbia University, M.Ph. in Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, and degrees in Physiology and Biomedical Engineering from institutions in China. She has led NIH-funded projects and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Biomedical Informatics.
Research awards include the NLM predoctoral training grant and recognition as one of six 'Star Trainees' for NLM's 175th anniversary. Her work has been featured in Science, Nature, and the Pulitzer-winning Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Current interests emphasize privacy in geospatial data, ethical AI, and reimagining GIScience education.
- Grants: Multiple NIH-funded projects.
- Labs: Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval, BioNLP Lab.
- Service: Co-chair of biomedical NLP sections at major conferences.
