Hoifung Poon
Speaker: Hoifung Poon, General Manager at Health Futures; Expert on natural language processing and large language models
Talk Title: Advancing Health at the Speed of Al
We are excited to introduce this series in a hybrid format at our location, Landmark (401 Park Drive). For those that cannot attend, a link will be provided to participate virtually.
Dr. Poon is an expert in natural language processing working on the health team at Microsoft on large language models including the use of ChatGPT in healthcare.
Hoifung Poon is General Manager at Health Futures of Microsoft Research and an affiliated professor at the University of Washington Medical School. He leads biomedical AI research and incubation, with the overarching goal of structuring medical data to accelerate discovery and improve delivery for precision health. His team and collaborators are among the first to explore large language models (LLMs) in health applications, from foundational research to incubations at large health systems and life science companies, and ultimately to productization. He has given tutorials on this topic at top conferences such as the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). His research spans a wide range of problems in machine learning and natural language processing (NLP), and his prior work has been recognized with Best Paper Awards from premier venues such as the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), and Uncertainty in AI (UAI). He received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington, specializing in machine learning and NLP.
