Scholar
Zhiyong Lu
Google Scholar ID: lJAkLo8AAAAJ
Senior Investigator, NLM; Adjunct Professor of CS, UIUC
Citations & Impact
Citations
35,703
H-index
71
i10-index
215
Publications
20
Co-authors
9
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Publications:
- - GeneAgent: AI agent for gene set analysis, Nature Methods, 2025
- - Matching Patients to Clinical Trials with LLMs, Nat Comm, 2024
- - Tracking genetic variants in biomedical literature using LitVar 2.0, Nat Genet, 2023
- - LitCovid: Keep up with the latest coronavirus research, Nature 2020
- - How user intelligence is improving PubMed, Nature Biotechnology 2018
- - Tools developed:
- - TrialGPT: LLM for patient-to-trial matching
- - MedCPT: foundation models for embedding bio-texts
- - DeepSeeNet: automated AMD diagnosis & prognosis
- - PubTator: Automated concept annotation for full-text articles
- - TeamTat: a collaborative text/corpus annotation tool
- - LitSuggest: a system for literature recommendation and curation
- - LitSense: Making sense of biomedical literature at sentence level
- - LitVar: a semantic literature search engine for genomic variants
- - Organized events:
- - Text Mining COSI at ISMB 2025
- - Workshop on Generative AI and LLMs at PSB 2025
- - Editor of 2024 JAMIA special issue on LLMs in Biomedicine
- - Released ChestX-ray14 dataset and received 2017 NIH Clinical Center Director's Award
Research Experience
- - Senior Investigator, National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Library of Medicine (NLM)
- - Deputy Director for Literature Search, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
- - Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Education
- PhD, specific school and advisor information not provided.
Background
- Research interests include natural language processing, biomedical informatics, etc. Currently serving as a Senior Investigator at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Library of Medicine (NLM), and as an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
Miscellany
- Interested in recruiting postdocs and students. Please email for more information.
