Recent Research Talks

Tutorial at ISMB 2026, Washington, D.C., July 2026
"Large Language Models and Agentic AI for Biomedical Informatics"
Tutorial at ACL 2026, San Diego, CA, July 2026
"Towards Effective and Efficient Multi-Agent Language Model Systems: Foundations, Prospects, and Applications"
Invited Talk at NeurIPS 2025 CURE-Bench Data Competition, San Diego, CA, Dec 2025
Invited Keynote Talk at Annual Biomedical STAR-AI Workshop, Georgia Tech & Emory University, Atlanta, GA, Oct 2025
Invited Talk at UT Southwestern Medical School New Faculty Research Forum, Dallas, TX, Oct 2025
Invited Talk at Stanford MedAI Group Exchange Sessions, Palo Alto, CA, Aug 2025

Academic Service

Faculty Member, MS in Artificial Intelligence for Biomedical Sciences Program between UTD and UTSW, 2025–2026

Finance Co-Chair, 16th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (BCB), 2025–2026
Proceeding Co-Chair, IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI), 2025–2026

Associate Editor, Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2026
Publicity Co-Chair, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Community, 2023–2024
Publicity Co-Chair, ACM Special Interest Group on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Biomedical Informatics (SIGBio) Community, 2022–2024
Publicity Co-Chair and Webmaster, 2021 IEEE Healthcare Summit, 2021

Area Chair: ACM BCB, ACL ARR (e.g., ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, EACL), IEEE EMBC
Program Committee: NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, COLM, CVPR, ECCV, IJCAI, AISTATS, AAAI, AMIA, etc.
Journal Reviewer: Nature Communications, npj Digital Medicine, Expert Systems with Applications, IEEE JBHI, IEEE TBME, IEEE RBME, etc.

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), Improving Methods for Conducting Patient-Centered Comparative CER – B, 2026
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP), 2025, 2026