Yonghui Wu, PhD

Dr. Yonghui Wu is an Associate Professor with Tenure in the Department of Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine at the University of Florida (UF), and the Chief Data Scientist & Director of Natural Language Processing (NLP) at the UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI). Dr. Wu’s research interests include NLP, large language models (LLMs), machine learning, and computational drug discovery using electronic health records (EHRs). Dr. Wu has a strong track record of building artificial intelligence (AI) models and informatics tools to advance medical discovery and healthcare. His research has produced a number of widely used AI models (e.g., GatorTron LLMs) and informatics tools. He has more than 100 publications consisting of peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings, and book chapters. He has been the principal investigator for grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).

Dr. Wu received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Harbin Institute of Technology with a focus on NLP. Then, he entered medical informatics research with a motivation to improve medical discovery and healthcare. He has Biomedical Informatics training at the Vanderbilt University and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.