About Me

I am a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT EECS Healthy ML Group, hosted by Prof. Marzyeh Ghassemi.

I recently received my Ph.D. from Cornell University (2022-25) and was an IvyPlus Exchange Scholar at MIT (2024-25). I interned at Google Research (2025), Scale AI (2025), and Mayo Clinic (2024). I hold Computer Science degrees from Rutgers University (B.A., 2017-20) and Tufts University (M.S., 2020-22).

Presently, I am based in beautiful Boston, MA. In my spare time, I love to do many outdoor activities, such as ice hockey, squash, and water skiing. My name means “happy walking is good”, and the pronunciation is “You-Sing.”

I founded a (semi-successful) AI for medication management company (Hug Medical) in 2022.

My old personal website has some interesting posts. Stop using it from Aug 2022.

News

• [Nov 2025] I am excited to receive $12,500 funding from MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund ($7,500), Cornell CCSS QuIRI Small Grant ($2,000), and Cornell RJEF Graduate Student Research Grant ($3,000).
• [July. 2025] I will talk about my new paper MedPAIR at Google Research (Jul 1st, 2025), Alphabet Verily Health (Jul 2nd, 2025), and Berkeley Agentic AI Summit (Aug 2nd, 2025) (Slide).
• [July. 2025] We received $199,000 continued funding from HPI-MIT Designing for Sustainability Research Program (PI: Prof. Ariel Stern and Prof. Marzyeh) for our proposal "Improving Human–AI System Sustainability in Health Via Aligned Relevance and Evaluation".
• [May. 2025] My thesis has been honored with an $11,000 grant from the 2025-26 President’s Council of Cornell Women (PCCW) Frank H.T. Rhodes Leadership Grant and Mission Grant and $2,000 from WG-USA Small Grant Initiative.
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[May. 2025] My thesis is awarded a $1,000 seed grant from the 2025-26 Cornell University Center for the Study of Inequality Graduate Student Research Competition.
[Mar. 2025] I will speak at MIT AI For Society seminar on (March 4th) [slide], HPI-MIT Designing for Sustainability Workshop (March 25th), and Science in the News - Harvard University (April 8th).
[Feb. 2025] I passed my A exam and became a Ph.D. candidate! Here is the video.
[Feb. 2025] I am featured in the Cornell Graduate School's Student Spotlight.
[Dec. 2024] My doctoral thesis, "Objective Approaches in a Subjective Medical World," is awarded $10k from 2024 American Psychological Foundation (APF) K. Anders Ericsson Dissertation Research Grant.
[Dec. 2024] I will be joining the Google Health AI team (Mountain View) as a Research Intern in Summer 2025!
[Nov. 2024] I will give a research seminar at MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems on November 20th.
[Oct. 2024] I will give two research talks: one at MIT ML Tea Seminar on October 21st, 4-5 pm EST in Room G882, Hewlett Room; and another at Prof. Gioele Zardini's lab on October 17th, 11am-12pm EST in 32-D677.
[Sep. 2024] I am honored to receive the North America Women in Tech Most Disruptive Award powered by Amazon .
[June. 2024] I will present my thesis at the Conference on Health, Inference, and Learning (CHIL) doctoral consortium on June 28th at Cornell Tech, NYC.
[May. 2024] I am excited to become a program committee (a.k.a. registration co-chair) for ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) 2024 at Brazil.
[Feb. 2024] I will present our AAAI poster paper in Vancouver Convention Center. Our booth number is 626. Welcome to talk with me!
[Dec. 2023] I will talk at Google Computer Science Research Mentorship Program (CSRMP) about 'Explain and Enhance: Patient-Centered Learning With LLM from the Public Online Cancer Forum.'
[Nov. 2023] I am super excited to be selected as the 2023-24 OneReach.ai Academic Fellow, with my proposal 'Explain and Enhance: Patient-Centered Learning With LLM from the Public Online Cancer Forum.'
[Feb. 2024] I will become a keynote speaker at 2024 Greg Smith Palliative Care Summit, Hyde Park, NY, discussing 'Advancing Palliative Care with AI.' #AIinHealthcare.
[Oct. 2023] Our poster paper about shared decision-making (SDM) for aging populations in chronic disease is accepted to CSCW 2023.
[Sep. 2023] I was accepted to 2023 Google CSRMP Fellow :))) Excited about this opportunity!
[Aug. 2023] Our department graduate student association received $2500 service funding for Fall 2023!
[Jun. 2023] I was accepted to 2023 WHO/Cochrane/Cornell University Summer Institute and received fellowship from Human Centered Design Department ($1500).
[Apr. 2023] I received fundings from Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures (CIHF) Research Grant ($500) and will be in Mexico City for EDRA 2023!

Selected Awards Show All Awards (~$430k)

• 2026 MIT Sloan Healthcare Innovations Prize (SHIP) Semi-finalist
• 2025-26 President’s Council of Cornell Women (PCCW) Frank H.T. Rhodes Leadership Grant and Mission Grant
• 2024 American Psychological Foundation (APF) K. Anders Ericsson Dissertation Research Grant
• 2024 Women in Tech North America Amazon Most Disruptive Award Winner
• 2023, 2024 Alan D. Mathios Research Grant
• Second Prize of the 2023 IEEE Prize Worldwide Communication Society Student Competition
• 2023 Life Sciences Technology Innovation Fellowship (LSTIF)
• 2023-24 OneReach.ai Academic Fellowship
• Women Entrepreneurs in STEM (W.E.) Cornell Summer Fund
• Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures (CIHF) Research Grant

Publications

Press

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Jan 2026

New Mayo Clinic study advances personalized prostate cancer education with an EHR-integrated AI agent

Published at: Mayo Clinic News · NewsWise

Sep 2025

Towards better health conversations: Research insights on a “wayfinding” AI agent based on Gemini

Published at: Google Research Blog · Willow Ventures

Aug 2025

Review of large language models in cancer care reveals limitations, room for improvement

Published at: Cornell News

Aug 2025

LLMs factor unrelated information when recommending medical treatments

Published at: MIT News · Quantum Zeitgeist

Selected Talks

• [Sep 25th. 2025] Fall 2025 University of Maryland Human Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL) Brownbag Speaker Series about 'Objective Approaches in a Subjective Medical World.' Recording
• [April 20th. 2024] 2024 Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Veterinary Medicine (SAVY) about 'AI-Based Cows’ Teat Shape and Skin Condition Identification for Smart Dairy Farms.' Recording
• [Jan 21st. 2024] 2024 National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Aspirations in Computing Program (AiC) Collegiate Award Talk about 'Advancing Patient-Centered Shared Decision-Making with AI Systems for Older Adult Cancer Patients.' NCWIT Recording, SIGCHI Recording

Conference Reviews

• ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) Area Chair.
• ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (CSCW) Paper Associate Chair.
• ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT) Program Committee.
• I also reviewed for journals such as Nature Digital Medicine, Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Cancer Letters, Scientific Reports, ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare, and International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction.

Professional Services

• American Psychological Association (APA) Member
• IEEE Graduate Student Member
• Cornell University Departmental Graduate Student Association President (2023-2024)
• 2023 Colman Inclusive Leadership Program
• ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) Member
• Organizer of 2022 Cornell + Miller Knoll Innovation Challenge for Future Healthcare Solutions

Sponsors

My research is proudly sponsored and supported by:

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