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Our paper, Patient Journey Evaluation for Consumer AI Health Assistants, has been published in npj Digital Medicine.
Our paper, Toward Reviewable Medical Evidence Synthesis for Care Delivery, has been published in npj Digital Medicine.
Our paper, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Health-Related Social Needs, and Cognitive Outcomes in US Veterans, has been published in JAMA Network Open.
I joined the University of Massachusetts Lowell as a Research Assistant Professor in Computer Science on September 14th, 2026.
Research update: MultiViewDx: Evidence-Linked Multi-View Clinical Diagnosis has been accepted to Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL).
This fall, I am co-teaching Methods in Data Science (COMP.4770/5770) at UMass Lowell. Course overview
Research update: MedQA-MM: Shortcuts Behind Medical Visual Reasoning has been accepted to EMNLP 2026, and MediSketch: Test-Time Scaling for Multimodal Patient Education has been accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2026.
Our paper, Enhancing Large Language Models for Identifying and Prioritizing Important Medical Jargons From Electronic Health Record Notes Using Data Augmentation: Comparative Study, has been published in JMIR AI.
šŸŽ‰ Four papers were accepted to ACL 2026 ! Very happy to be going back to šŸ–ļø San Diego in July to see everyone.
In June, I will be traveling to Denver ā›°ļø to attend the CVPR conference. This marks my first time attending a computer vision conference, and I am very much looking forward to engaging in close-up discussions and exchanging ideas with friends from the CV and medical imaging communities.
šŸŽ‰ Medical Thinking with Multiple Images was accepted to (ICLR 2026)!!!
šŸ“š MedQA-CS and MedAbstain were accepted to EACL 2026.
Research update: SynthEHR-eviction: Enhancing Eviction SDoH Detection with LLM-Augmented Synthetic EHR Data, npj Digital Medicine (2026).
Our paper, Socioeconomic, Demographic and Geographic Disparities in Accessibility to Food Pantries in the United States, has been published in Scientific Reports.
šŸ“š ChatCLIDS and PRIME were accepted to AAAI 2026 in Main Technical and AI for Social Impact!
šŸ“š Four papers were accepted to EMNLP 2025!!!
šŸŽ¤ I gave an invited talk at VA Bedford Health Care | Veterans Affairs: Chatbot for Behavior Change and Therapeutic Support in Addiction Recovery.
šŸ† Received the Outstanding Research Award (Center for Biomedical and Health Research in Data Science, UMass Lowell).
āœļø RARE was accepted to (ACL 2025).
āœļø MCQG-SRefine was oral presented to (NAACL 2025).
šŸŽ‰ Unveiling GPT-4Vā€™s hidden challenges behind high accuracy on USMLE questions: Observational Study was accepted for publication in Journal of Medical Internet Research.
šŸ† Received the UMass Amherst Outstanding PhD Portfolio Award and became a PhD Candidate.
šŸ“š Three papers were accepted to EMNLP 2024 !
šŸŒ“ I presented NoteChat at ACL 2024 and had a wonderful trip to Bangkok!
šŸŽ¤ I gave an invited talk at Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center of Sun Yat-sen University: Bridging Health Literacy Gaps: Improving Patient Understanding of Electronic Health Records.
Our paper, BioInstruct, was published in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
šŸŽ¤ I gave an invited talk at VA Bedford Health Care | Veterans Affairs: Helping Veterans Understand Clinical Notes with Advanced AI Systems.
šŸŽ‰ PaniniQA was accepted to Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics !
šŸŒŸ I will present two of my recent works in Singapore: Improving Summarization with Human Edits (EMNLP) and PaniniQA (TACL).
šŸŽ‰ Automated identification of eviction status from electronic health record notes was accepted for publication in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association!