Ya Gao

Ya Gao is a doctoral researcher at the Department of Computer Science, School of Science, Aalto University. Her work focuses on integrating machine learning with clinical applications, particularly adverse drug event detection and healthcare analytics.

• Research Areas: Graph Neural Networks, Large Language Models, Clinical Informatics, and Digital Healthcare.
• Projects: Active member of the EU-funded CLISHEAT/Marttinen project (2023–2025), targeting green and digital healthcare innovations.
• Publications: Recent contributions include knowledge-augmented graph models for clinical tasks and self-supervised summarization of medical records.
• Awards: Recipient of the Aalto SCI award for Teaching Assistants of the Year in 2023.