Scholar
Yanjun Gao
Google Scholar ID: GThZXQgAAAAJ
University of Colorado; University of Wisconsin Madison
Citations & Impact
Citations
644
H-index
14
i10-index
20
Publications
20
Co-authors
15
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- 2025: Two papers accepted to EMNLP 2025 (1 Main, 1 Findings); one paper accepted to NeurIPS GenAI4Health workshop
- 2024: Paper “Anchored Answers: Unravelling Positional Bias in GPT-2’s Multiple-Choice Questions” accepted to ACL 2024 Findings
- 2024: Paper “When Raw Data Prevails: Are Large Language Model Embeddings Effective in Numerical Data Representation for Medical Machine Learning Applications?” accepted to EMNLP 2024 Findings
- 2023: Awarded NIH/NLM Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) with $874,800 funding
- 2023: Received UW-Madison Department of Medicine Trainee Outstanding Research Award
- Invited panelist on Prompt Engineering at Epic UGM
- Invited talks at Northwestern Medicine Healthcare AI Forum and UAB Informatics Institute Powertalk Seminar Series
Background
- Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
- Researcher at the Center for Health Artificial Intelligence, University of Colorado
- Focuses on the intersection of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare
- Leads the LARK (Language, Reasoning and Knowledge) Lab at CU, dedicated to developing and evaluating novel NLP methods and their transformative applications in healthcare and beyond
- Affiliate faculty with CU Boulder Computational Linguistics (CLASIC) and BoulderNLP group
