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Hua Xu, PhD

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Robert T. McCluskey Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
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Vice Chair for Research and Development, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Assistant Dean for Biomedical Informatics, Yale School of Medicine

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hua.xu@yale.edu

Biomedical Informatics & Data Science

100 College St

New Haven, Connecticut 06510

United States

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Robert T. McCluskey Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Vice Chair for Research and Development, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science; Assistant Dean for Biomedical Informatics, Yale School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Hua Xu is a well-known researcher in clinical natural language processing (NLP). He has developed novel algorithms for important clinical NLP tasks such as entity recognition and relation extraction, which have been top ranked in over a dozen of international biomedical NLP challenges. His lab has developed CLAMP, a comprehensive clinical NLP toolkit that has been successfully commercialized and used by hundreds of healthcare organizations. Moreover, he has led multiple national/international initiatives (e.g., Chair of the NLP working group at Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics - OHDSI program) to apply developed NLP technologies to diverse clinical and translational studies, thus greatly accelerating clinical evidence generation using electronic health records data. Recently, he also utilizes NLP to harmonize metadata of biomedical digital objects (e.g., indexing millions of biomedical datasets to make them findable), with the goal to promote FAIR principles in biomedicine.

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Education & Training

PhD
Columbia University, Biomedical Informatics
MS
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Computer Science
BS
Nanjing University, Biochemistry

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Frequent collaborators of Hua Xu's published research.

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2024

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Biomedical Informatics & Data Science

100 College St

New Haven, Connecticut 06510

United States

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