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:

  • šŸ„ Health Information Accessibility & Personalization
  • 🩺 LLM Reasoning
  • šŸ¤– Trustworthy AI for Medical Applications

I will be recruiting multiple PhD and master students from the iSchool (primarily) and CS programs starting in Fall 2026. If you’re interested in working with me, please read through mentorship section carefully and complete the Google form. Please note that I will not be responding to emails regarding applications. I’m always excited to hear from motivated students! šŸŽ“āœØ

news

Oct 7, 2025 I’ll be at AMIA in Atlanta, November 15–18āœˆļøšŸ“! 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! šŸ“©
Jan 15, 2024 :round_pushpin:Check out my new publication: Retrieval Augmentation of Large Language Models for Lay Language Generation

selected publications

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    Are LLM-generated plain language summaries truly understandable? A large-scale crowdsourced evaluation
    Yue Guo,Ā Jae Ho Sohn,Ā Gondy Leroy,Ā andĀ Trevor Cohen
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.10409, 2025
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    Explain Less, Understand More: Jargon Detection via Personalized Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuning
    Bohao Wu,Ā Qingyun Wang,Ā andĀ Yue Guo
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.16227, 2025
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    PlainQAFact: Automatic Factuality Evaluation Metric for Biomedical Plain Language Summaries Generation
    Zhiwen You,Ā andĀ Yue Guo
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.08890, 2025
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    Personalized jargon identification for enhanced interdisciplinary communication
    Yue Guo,Ā Joseph Chee Chang,Ā Maria Antoniak,Ā Erin Bransom,Ā Trevor Cohen,Ā Lucy Lu Wang,Ā andĀ Tal August
    In NAACL, 2024
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    APPLS: A meta-evaluation testbed for plain language summarization
    Yue Guo,Ā Tal August,Ā Gondy Leroy,Ā Trevor Cohen,Ā andĀ Lucy Lu Wang
    EMNLP, 2024