Historic ACMI Biography
Dr. Xu is a fast-rising star in clinical NLP. In 2009, he won AMIAís Homer Warner Award. He is the Chair of AMIA NLP working group and serves on the editorial boards of JAMIA and JBI. He has over 80 publications and has been PI of multiple grants including three R01s. Dr. Xu trained in Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University. He is a tenured Associate Professor at the School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth. He has demonstrated outstanding scientific productivity and longstanding commitment to medical informatics research and education. Dr. Xu has devoted his research career to developing novel clinical natural language processing (NLP) methods and applying them to biomedical applications such as clinical and translational research. He has developed innovative methods and built advanced clinical NLP systems, which have formed the foundation on which successful clinical and genomic studies have been performed.
Affiliations
The American College of Medical Informatics
ACMI is a college of elected Fellows from the U.S. and abroad who have made significant and sustained contributions to the field of medical informatics. It is the central body for a community of scholars and practitioners who are committed to advancing the informatics field.
Year Elected
2014