Personal Information
Entreprise/Lieu de travail
San Diego United States
Secteur d’activité
Technology / Software / Internet
À propos
My main interest is building real-life biomedical text applications for better healthcare. I am a key contributor to widely recognized systems such as BioCaster in public health surveillance and MedEx in clinical informatics. Currently, I am the key contributor, leading a technical team to build PhenDisco, a new phenotype information retrieval system for NCBI's database of genotypes and phenotypes (dbGaP).
My background are natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning. I obtained PhD degree from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Japan in 2005 in computer science. I joined Division of Biomedical Informatics at University of California San Diego since ..
Mots-clés
flu tracking
dbgap
phenotype standadization
twitter
biosurveillance
nlp
natural language processing
geospatial
wikipedia
ontology
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