Jie Yang

Dr. Jie Yang is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and lead investigator at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH). He serves as affiliate faculty at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Harvard Data Science Initiative, and Kempner Institute of Harvard University.

• Harvard Medical School, Boston - Postdoc (2020)
• Singapore University of Technology and Design - Ph.D. (2018)
• Chinese Academy of Sciences - M.S. (2014)
• Chongqing University - B.S. in Electronics (2011) and Physics (2011)

His research focuses on medical informatics, clinical NLP, and large language models for healthcare applications. He develops AI solutions for analyzing electronic health records (EHRs) to improve clinical decision-making and real-world evidence generation.

• 2025 NIH R01 grant ($1.6M) for LLMs in drug safety analysis
• 2024 Fellow of American Medical Informatics Association
• 2022 Yunfan Award at World AI Conference

He has developed popular NLP tools including NCRF++, LatticeLSTM, and YEDDA (5,000+ GitHub stars). His publications span clinical AI applications, social media health analysis, and medical text processing.

Contact: jyang66@bwh.harvard.edu