Prof Hua Xu

Prof Hua Xu is Robert T. McCluskey Professor and Vice Chair for Research and Development, Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science at Yale School of Medicine (YSM), as well as Associate Dean for Biomedical Informatics at YSM. He received his PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Columbia University. His primary research interests include biomedical natural language processing, large language models, and AI agents, as well as their applications in secondary use of electronic health records data for clinical and translational research. His research is funded by multiple agencies (e.g. NLM, NCI, NIGMS, NIA, AHA, and CPRIT), and methods/tools developed in his lab have been widely used to support diverse biomedical applications. Dr Xu is a fellow of both the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI) and the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI).