User:Pengyifan

Starting Fall 2020, Dr. Peng will be an assistant professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine. His main research interests include BioNLP and medical image analysis. His current projects focus on applying information extracted through NLP and image analysis on radiological data classification and retinal disease prognosis. Dr. Peng has published many papers in top journals and conferences, including Nucleic Acids Research, npj Digital Medicine, JAMIA, CVPR, and MICCAI. He is also an academic editor for PLoS ONE and served as reviewers for major journals/conferences including Nature Communications, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), and ACL. Currently, Dr. Peng is a research fellow at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH). He is the first awardee at the NCBI to receive the NIH K99/R00 grant, which supports his work on using NLP and ML to extract radiology specific domain knowledge and build an automated reporting system.