Hey, I'm Yikuan Li

Contact: yikuan.li@northwestern.edu

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Health and Biomedical Informatics track of the HSIP program at Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University. My research interest lies in leveraging artificial intelligence to improve health outcomes and mitigate health disparities through the analysis of heterogeneous real-word health data.  I am fortunate to be advised by Dr. Yuan Luo, and to have Dr. Sadiya Khan and Dr. Justin Starren on my dissertation committee. I am also the awardee of the American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship. I am currently on the academic job market for a junior faculty position in health informatics. I would greatly appreciate it if you could reach out with any job opportunities or career advice. 

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EDUCATION

09/2019 - 06/2025 Ph.D. in Health and Biomedical Informatics Northwestern University

09/2017 - 05/2019 M.S in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Northwestern University

09/2013 - 07/2017 B.S. in Information Engineering Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Grants & Fellowships

01/2023 - 06/2025 Predoctoral Fellowship ($65,106) American Heart Association

01/2015-06/2017 Google Student Innovation Project Grant (¥12,000) Google

PUBLICATIONS

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

INVITED TALKS AND SEMINARS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

06/2024 - 09/2024 LLM Research Intern Samsung Research America, Mountain View, CA

06/2023 - 09/2023 NLP Research Intern Siemens Medical Solutions, Malvern, PA

06/2019 - 09/2019 Consulting Intern IQVIA, Shanghai, China

06/2016 - 01/2017 Support Engineer Intern Microsoft, Shanghai, China

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

09/2022 - 09/2023 Teaching Certificate Program Northwestern

05/2021 Teaching Assistant Excellence Award Northwestern

01/2023 - 04/2023 Health and Biomedical Informatics Methods II Northwestern

01/2022 - 04/2022 Intro to GIS for Public Health Northwestern

01/2021 - 04/2021 Intro to GIS for Public Health Northwestern

01/2019 - 04/2019 Deep Learning from Scratch Northwestern

04/2018 - 07/2018 Reinforcement Learning from Scratch Northwestern

01/2018 - 04/2018 Optimization Techniques for Deep Learning Northwestern

09/2016 - 01/2017 Nonlinear Optics SJTU

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Journal Reviewer

1) Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA); 2) Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI); 3) Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR); 4) BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making; 6) Scientific Reports; 7) BioData Mining; 8) Technology in Society; 9) JMIR Medical Informatics,; 10) JMIR mHealth and uHealth; 11) JMIR Medical Education; 12) JMIR Formative Research; 13) JMIR Public Health and Surveillance; 14) Heliyon; 15) Circulation: Heart Failure; 16) Frontier in Digital Health; 17) Biomed. Signal Processing; 18) Comput. Methods Programs Biomed. 19) International Journal of Medical Informatics; 20) BMC Supplements

Conference Reviewer

NeurIPS | ICLR | AMIA Annual Symposium | AMIA IS | AMIA CIC | IMIA MedInfo | IEEE ICHI