Aokun Chen

Aokun Chen,

AST SCTST

Department: MD-HOBI-GENERAL
Business Email: chenaokun1990@ufl.edu

Research Profile

Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID)

0000-0002-5100-3821

Areas of Interest
  • Clinical Trials Design & Analysis
  • Alzheimer’s Disease
  • Clinical Natural Language Processing
  • Lung Cancer Screening

Publications

2024
Exploring the Relation between Contextual Social Determinants of Health and COVID-19 Occurrence and Hospitalization
Informatics. 11(1) [DOI] 10.3390/informatics11010004.
2024
Feasibility of Identifying Factors Related to Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia in Real-World Data.
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences. [DOI] 10.1101/2024.02.10.24302621. [PMID] 38405723.
2024
Model tuning or prompt Tuning? a study of large language models for clinical concept and relation extraction
Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 153 [DOI] 10.1016/j.jbi.2024.104630.
2023
A study of generative large language model for medical research and healthcare.
NPJ digital medicine. 6(1) [DOI] 10.1038/s41746-023-00958-w. [PMID] 37973919.
2023
Contextualized medication information extraction using Transformer-based deep learning architectures.
Journal of biomedical informatics. 142 [DOI] 10.1016/j.jbi.2023.104370. [PMID] 37100106.
2022
A large language model for electronic health records.
NPJ digital medicine. 5(1) [DOI] 10.1038/s41746-022-00742-2. [PMID] 36572766.
2022
Impacts of Eligibility Criteria on Trial Participants’ Age in Alzheimer’s Disease Clinical Trials.
AMIA … Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium. 2022:368-376 [PMID] 37128470.
2022
Incidence Trends of New-Onset Diabetes in Children and Adolescents Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings From Florida.
Diabetes. 71(12):2702-2706 [DOI] 10.2337/db22-0549. [PMID] 36094294.
2022
The Impact of Race–Ethnicity and Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias on Mammography Use
Cancers. 14(19) [DOI] 10.3390/cancers14194726. [PMID] 36230648.

Grants

Oct 2023 ACTIVE
Predicative Modeling of the Prevalence of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Biomarkers
Role: Co-Investigator
Funding: RUTGERS STATE UNIV via DAIICHI SANKYO
Oct 2023 ACTIVE
VA IPA – Geospatial analysis of racial and rural-nonrural disparities in adherence to follow-up lung cancer screening recommendations in Veterans
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: US DEPT OF VET AFF GAINESVILLE MED CTR
Feb 2023 ACTIVE
Eligibility criteria design for Alzheimers trials with real-world data and explainable AI
Role: Co-Investigator
Funding: WEILL MED COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIV via NATL INST OF HLTH NIA
Feb 2023 – Dec 2023
VA IPA – Geospatial analysis of racial and rural-nonrural disparities in adherence to follow-up lung cancer screening recommendations in Veterans
Role: Principal Investigator
Funding: US DEPT OF VET AFF GAINESVILLE MED CTR

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Engineering
2020 · University of Florida
Master of Science in Computer Engineering
2014-2016 · University of Florida

Contact Details

Emails:
Addresses:
Business Mailing:
PO Box 100147
GAINESVILLE FL 32611
Business Street:
1889 MUSEUM RD STE 7000 FL 7
GAINESVILLE FL 32610