Scholar
Yanshan Wang, PhD, FAMIA
Google Scholar ID: Ggy4_UcAAAAJ
Vice Chair of Research and Director of Generative AI, University of Pittsburgh
Citations & Impact
Citations
5,290
H-index
35
i10-index
86
Publications
20
Co-authors
118
list available
Publications
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Research Experience
- Assistant Professor and Vice Chair of Research, Department of Health Information Management, University of Pittsburgh
- Director of Generative AI, CPACE AI Center, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
- Director of Center of Clinical Natural Language Processing (CCNLP)
- Assistant Professor in Intelligent Systems Program, Department of Biomedical Informatics, and Clinical and Translational Science Institute, University of Pittsburgh
- Associate Member, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Department of Artificial Intelligence & Informatics, Mayo Clinic
- Over 10 years of research experience in AI, NLP, and machine learning applications in healthcare
Background
- Research Interests: Clinical Natural Language Processing; Artificial Intelligence (Machine/Deep Learning) Applications in Healthcare
- Chair of the AMIA Natural Language Processing Working Group
- NLP Lead of the NCATS Accrual to Clinical Trials (ACT) Network
- Pioneer in applying generative AI and large language models (LLMs) in clinical NLP, especially in zero-shot and few-shot settings
- Recent focus on evaluation and ethical implications of generative AI in healthcare
- Original author of the GREAT PLEA ethical principles and QUEST evaluation framework for generative AI in healthcare
