Jie Yang (杨杰), Ph.D.

Assistant Professor (ZJU 100 Young Professor) @ Zhejiang University
Adjunct Professor @ the second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University
Research: Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, Natural Language Processing

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I am a tenure-track assistant professor at Zhejiang University. Previously, I was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University (Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital). I received my Ph.D. degree from Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). I was a visiting student at University of Oxford .


My research interests are mainly focused on artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare/public health and natural language processing. I served as an area chair of EMNLP 2021 , SPC of AMIA 2020 annual symposium, the program committee of top-tier conferences: ACL/AAAI/IJCAI/EMNLP/NAACL/AMIA/ICML/ICLR. I was selected as ACL 2018 outstanding reviewer, COLING 2018 outstanding reviewer. I won the COLING Best Paper Award at 2018, ACL Best demo Paper Award Nomination at 2018, and ISTD Best Dissertation Award. I am the developer of several popular NLP tools: NCRF++ and YEDDA, which attracted more than 4000 stars at GitHub.


I love badminton and swimming (Silver medal in Men’s 100 metres freestyle at Chongqing University).


News

  • 2021: Position openings: two postdocs of AI in healthcare, and two research assistants, email me! I am also looking for PhD students and master students.
  • 2021: Another first paper accepted at JAMA Network Open
  • 2021: I will serve as an Area Chair (AC) at EMNLP 2021!
  • 2020: I joined Zhejiang University as an assistant professor, welcome to visit the beautiful city Hangzhou!
  • 2020: Two first-author papers were accepted by JAMA Network Open and General Hospital Psychiatry, separately.
  • 2020: Two papers were accepted at AMIA Annual Symposium 2020.
  • 2020: Glad to serve as a standing reviewer at Computational Linguistics
  • 2019: Glad to serve as Scientific Program Committee (SPC) for AMIA 2020 annual symposium! (similar role as the area chair in *ACL conferences)
  • 2019: Glad to receive the Nvidia GPU Grant! Now I have my own weapon : )
  • 2018: I have joined Harvard University (HMS & BWH) as a postdoc fellow, working on AI for healthcare.
  • 2018: Glad to receive the ISTD Best Dissertation Award!