Han Yang

PhD Student in Health Informatics & Data Science

Leveraging computational methods and data science to advance our understanding of diseases and contribute to public health through Large Language Models, Multi-modality, and Biomedical Data Analysis.

Han Yang at Marathon
My First Marathon Running in DC, October 2024

About Me

I am a 3rd year PhD student from the Institute for Health Informatics (IHI) at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. My major is Health Informatics, Data Science track, and I am glad to be supervised by Dr. Serguei Pakhomov at the Cognitive Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (CAIR).

My research is fundamentally oriented towards leveraging computational methods and data science to advance our understanding of diseases and contribute to public health. By integrating cutting-edge technologies like Large Language Models (LLMs), Multi-modality, High-dimensional Multi-omics, and Causal Discovery, I aim to create actionable insights that can be translated into tangible health benefits and societal progress.

Get in touch! I'm always interested in discussing research collaborations, academic opportunities, or connecting with fellow researchers in health informatics and data science.

Minneapolis, MN

Education

  • PhD in Health Informatics
    University of Minnesota (2023-Present)
  • MS in Data Science
    Johns Hopkins University (2021-2022)
  • BS in Applied Statistics
    Communication University of China (2013-2017)

Research Interests

  • Applied Machine Learning
  • Clinical Natural Language Processing
  • Biomedical Data Analysis/Bioinformatics
  • Large Language Models & Multi-Modality
  • Causal Discovery

Recent News

Jul 2025

🎉 Our paper was published in NPJ Digital Medicine!

Jul 2025

🎉 Our work on Ensemble methods of LLM learning was published in JAMIA!

Dec 2024

🎉 Our work on Multi-modality risk prediction was published in JAMIA!

Oct 2024

🏃‍♂️ I have finished my first ever Marathon event in DC!

Selected Publications

H Yang, M Li, H Zhou, Y Xiao, Q Fang, S Zhou, R Zhang

Journal of Medical Internet Research 27, e70080

H Yang, H Yu, M Kotlyar, SR Dufresne, SVS Pakhomov

npj Digital Medicine 8 (1), 409

H Yang, S Zhou, Z Rao, C Zhao, E Cui, C Shenoy, AH Blaes, ...

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 31 (12), 2800-2810

Y Xiao, S Zhang, H Zhou, M Li, H Yang, R Zhang

Journal of Biomedical Informatics 158, 104730

Research Experience