Biography

I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, affiliated with the School of Medicine, the Department of Biomedical Data Science, mentored by my amazing supervisor Prof. Nima Aghaeepour. Prior to this, I received my Ph.D. in May 2025 from the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Pennsylvania State University, where I was super lucky to be mentored by my best PhD advisor Prof. Vasant Honavar.

I work on machine learning for healthcare. My scientific goal is to advance the integration of machine learning into clinical practice by designing clinical AI systems that are informative, interactive, and affordable.

During PhD, my research centers on using ML/AI techniques to narrow the gaps between Data (Electronic Health Records (EHR) Data), Model (Continual Learning from Multi-modality Data), and Application (Clinical Conversational System).

During my postdoc appointment, I shifted my focus to addressing real-world medical problems using grounded clinical AI. Feel free to visit my homepage for more information: https://weijieyingren.github.io/.

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I came from Henan Province in China; hence I am an expert in noodles. Long ago, I used to practice guitar/piano and race every day. Now, cooking makes me fatter and sleepier:)