Curriculum Vitae

General Information

Full Name Hao Liu
Contact liuha [at] montclair [dot] edu
Languages English, Chinese

Education

  • 2015 - 2020
    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
    New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA
  • 2011 - 2012
    Master of Science
    Columbia University, New York, USA
    • Electrical Engineering
  • 2017 - 2011
    Bachelor of Science
    New York Institute of Technology, New York, USA
    • Electrical and Computer Engineering
    • Graduated with President's list

Experience

  • Spring 2021
    Teacher and seminar organizer
    Columbia University, New York, US
    • G4099 Biomedical Informatics seminar
  • 2019-2020
    Adjunct Professor
    New York Institute of Technology, New York, US
    • DTSC 115 - Intro to Data Science | Spring 2020 | Online course development and lecturer
    • CSCI 415 - Intro to Data Mining | Spring 2020 | Lecturer
    • CSCI 636 - Big Data Analytics | Spring 2019 | Lecturer
  • 2015-2018
    Teaching Assistant & Instructor
    New Jersey Institute of Technology, New Jersey, US
    • CS 115 - Intro to C++ | Spring 2018 | Lab instructor
    • CS 106 - Intro to Python | Fall 2017 & Fall 2015 | Lab instructor
    • CS 610 - Data Structure & Algorithm | Spring 2017 | Teaching assistant
    • CS 435 - Adv Data Structure-Algorithm Design | Spring 2017, Fall 2016 | Teaching assistant
    • CS 431 - Intro to Database System | Spring 2016 | Lab instructor
  • 2013-2015
    Junior Engineer
    Alcatel-Lucent Shanghai Bell, Shanghai

Open Source Projects

  • 2020-2022
    Clinical Trial Knowledge Base
    • A knowledge base of discrete clinical trial eligibility criteria equipped with a web-based user interface for querying and aggregate analysis of common eligibility criteria.
  • 2021-2023
    CliVER: Scientific claim verification
    • A pipeline that automate clinical evidence extraction and separate support and refute rationale for a specific scientific claim, from over 500,000 completed randomized controlled trials from 1990 to 2022.

Honors and Awards

  • April, 2022
  • 2021-2022
    • Google Cloud Credit Grant: "A knowledge base for Clinical Trials"
    • $5,000

Presentations

  • Conference and workshop presentations
    • IEEE ICHI (2024), "Using Generative Large Language Models for Hierarchical Relationship Prediction in Medical Ontologies", Jun. 2024.
    • AMIA Joint Summits (2021), "A Comparison between Human and NLP-based Annotation of Clinical Trial Eligibility Criteria Text Using The OMOP Common Data Model", Mar. 2021.
    • AMIA Annual Symposium (2019), "Transfer Learning from BERT to Support Insertion of New Concepts into SNOMED CT", Nov. 2019.
    • AMIA Annual Symposium (2018), "Using Convolutional Neural Networks to Support Insertion of New Concepts into SNOMED CT", Nov. 2018.
    • International Conference on Biological Ontology (2018), "Can a convolutional neural network support auditing of nci thesaurus neoplasm concepts?", Aug. 2018.
  • Invited talks and university presentations
    • Seminar talk in the College of Engineering & Computing Sciences at New York Institute of Technology, “NLP-based knowledge sharing and evidence retrieval of clinical studies”, March 29, 2022.
    • Guest lecture for HINF 5016: Natural Language Processing in Health at Weill Cornell Medicine, “NLP-based quality assurance of ontologies and knowledge sharing of clinical trials”, March 9, 2022.

Professional Activities

  • Membership
    • Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
    • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
    • American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
  • Scientific Program Committee
  • Reviewer for journals
    • Scientific Data
    • IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems (THMS)
    • IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE)
    • Journal of Biomedical Informatics (JBI)
    • Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA)
    • Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association Open (JAMIA Open)
    • Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR)
    • Applied Clinical Informatics (ACI)
    • BMC Supplements
    • BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
    • BMC Medical Research Methodology
    • Clinical and Experimental Medicine
    • Scientific Reports
    • Journal of Robotics
    • Journal of Biomedical Semantics
    • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Reviewer for conferences
    • Medical Informatics Europe (MIE'25)
    • European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD'24)
    • International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM'24)
    • International Conference of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME'24)
    • IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics (IMIA'24)
    • International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE'24)
    • European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD'24)
    • American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium (AMIA'19, '20, '21, '22, '24)
    • American Medical Informatics Association Informatics Summit (AMIA'21, '22, '23, '24)
    • The IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM'21)

Academic Interests

  • Clinical Informatics
    • Clinical Natural Language Processing (methods and applications)
    • Clinical Knowledge Discovery
    • Clinical Evidence Mining and Appraisal
    • Scalable and accurate Deep Learning predictive model with Electronic Health Records (EHR)
  • Ontology Engineering
    • Ontology Enrichment
    • Ontology Quality Assurance

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Hiking, Swimming, Golf, etc.