Yale Smart Medicine Lab (YSML)

Welcome to Yale Smart Medicine Lab (YSML), an evolving neural network where members interact, collaborate, and spark constantly. Although scattered around the world, we find our team virtually. Our team members excel in various disciplines such as physics, mathematics, statistics, computer science, data science, radiology, biomedical engineering, biology, clinical medicine and public health.

The PI, Dr. Jun Deng is a Professor at the Department of Therapeutic Radiology of Yale University School of Medicine and an ABR board certified medical physicist at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Dr. Deng obtained his PhD from University of Virginia in 1998 and finished his postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University in 2001. Dr. Deng has been serving on the Editorial Board of numerous peer-reviewed journals, on the study sections of NIH, NSF, DOD, ACS, RSNA and ASTRO since 2005, and as scientific reviewer for various science foundations and institutions since 2015. Currently with funding from NIBIB, NSF, NCI, DOE and YCC, Dr. Deng’s research has been focused on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data for early cancer detection, real-time clinical decision support, digital twins of cancer patients, as well as AI-empowered mobile health and smart medicine.

We are hiring! We need your talent and expertise! If interested, contact Dr. Deng.