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Weipeng Zhou

Postdoctoral Associate in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
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Postdoctoral Associate in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

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Weipeng Zhou is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Yale University School of Medicine, working under the mentorship of Professor Hua Xu. His research focuses on the pre-training and evaluation of large medical language models using electronic health records and medical claims data.

He received his Ph.D. in Medical Informatics from the University of Washington and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin. During his doctoral studies, Weipeng applied natural language processing (NLP) and large language models (LLMs) to tackle critical healthcare challenges related to Long COVID, cardiovascular diseases, and suicide prevention. He also led a pilot grant project focused on characterizing and predicting Long COVID using NLP techniques.

Currently, Weipeng's work includes the pretraining of clinical LLMs from scratch and identifying emerging water contaminants by analyzing millions PubMed articles.

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Last Updated on July 08, 2025.

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PhD
University of Washington, Medical Informatics (2025)
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University of Wisconsin, Computer Science, Statistics (2019)

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