Yue Guo

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614 E. Daniel Street

Room 4131

Champaign, IL 61820

Assistant Professor @ UIUC. Previously: UW/AI2/Google/MSR/JHU.

Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences
Affiliate, Siebel School of Computing and Data Science
Affiliate, Health Care Engineering Systems Center

Hello! I am specializing in Health Informatics and Natural Language Processing (NLP). My research focuses on leveraging AI/NLP to enhance the accessibility and personalization of health information, bridging the gap between complex medical knowledge and diverse healthcare consumers, clinicians, and researchers. Trained as a physician and epidemiologist before transitioning to health informatics, I bring a multidisciplinary perspective to AI-driven solutions in medicine.

Ongoing projects:

  • đŸ„ Health Information Accessibility & Personalization
  • đŸ©ș LLM Reasoning for Medical Tasks
  • đŸ€– LLM for Clinical Diagnosis & Prediction

I will be recruiting multiple PhD students from the iSchool (primarily) and CS programs starting in Fall 2026. If you’re interested in working with me, please fill out this form. I’m always excited to hear from motivated students! 🎓✹

news

Oct 7, 2025 I’ll be at AMIA in Atlanta, November 15–18âœˆïžđŸ“! If you’re curious about my work, thinking about future research opportunities, or just want to chat about ideas, I’d love to meet up. Drop me an email and let’s connect!
Sep 20, 2024 Excited to share that our paper for plain language summarization evaluation has been accepted to #EMNLP2024! 🌟 I’ll be in Miami for the conference—feel free to reach out if you’d like to chat! đŸ“©
Jan 15, 2024 :round_pushpin:Check out my new publication: Retrieval Augmentation of Large Language Models for Lay Language Generation

selected publications

  1. Personalized jargon identification for enhanced interdisciplinary communication
    Yue Guo, Joseph Chee Chang, Maria Antoniak, Erin Bransom, Trevor Cohen, Lucy Lu Wang, and Tal August
    In Proceedings of Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2024
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  2. APPLS: A meta-evaluation testbed for plain language summarization
    Yue Guo, Tal August, Gondy Leroy, Trevor Cohen, and Lucy Lu Wang
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.14341, 2023
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  3. Retrieval augmentation of large language models for lay language generation
    Yue Guo, Wei Qiu, Gondy Leroy, Sheng Wang, and Trevor Cohen
    Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2023
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  4. Automated lay language summarization of biomedical scientific reviews
    Yue Guo, Wei Qiu, Yizhong Wang, and Trevor Cohen
    In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021
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  5. Crossing the “Cookie Theft” corpus chasm: applying what BERT learns from outside data to the ADReSS challenge dementia detection task
    Yue Guo, Changye Li, Carol Roan, Serguei Pakhomov, and Trevor Cohen
    Frontiers in Computer Science, 2021
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