About
Hi, this is Tao Yang. I am a senior researcher at Tencent America Hippocrates Research Lab.
Prior, I obtained my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at Arizona State University under the supervision of Prof. Jieping Ye. I have broad interests in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Data Mining.
Experience
- Mar 2018 - present, Tech Lead, Senior Research Scientist
Hippocrates Research Lab of Tencent America, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Develop robust AI-Chatbot solutions for multiple Healthcare application scenarios
Develop Medical Natural Language Processing & Knowledge Graph platforms - Jan 2017 - Mar 2018, Senior Research Scientist
Big Data Lab of Baidu US Research, Sunnyvale, CA, USA - Research Internships
- Baidu US Research: Jun 2016 - Dec 2016, May 2015 - Aug 2015
- DiDi Research: Sep 2015 - Jan 2016
Education
- 2013 - 2016, PhD Computer Science, Arizona State University
- Dissertation Topic: Structured Sparse Methods for Imaging Genetics
- Dissertation Committee Co-chairs: Prof. Jieping Ye & Prof. Guoliang Xue
- 2015 - 2016, Visiting PhD Scholar, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
- 2011 - 2013, MS Computer Science, Arizona State University
- 2007 - 2011, BEng Software Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University