Yanshan Wang named chair-elect of the Natural Language Processing Working Group for the American Medical Informatics Association

Yanshan Wang, vice chair of research and an assistant professor within the Department of Health Information Management in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, was voted chair-elect of the Natural Language Processing Working Group for the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).

AMIA consists of more than 5,600 members and is a community committed to the vision of a world where informatics transforms people.

His research interests focus on artificial intelligence, natural language processing and machine/deep learning methodologies and applications in health care. His research goal is to leverage different dimensions of data and data-driven computational approaches to meet the needs of clinicians, researchers, patients and customers.