Education and Research Experiences

Research Interests

  • Text Mining
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Medical Informatics
  • Health Informatics

Education

Drexel University (Philadelphia, PA, USA)

Ph.D. in Information Science
Sep 2023 – Present

  • Faculty Advisor: Christopher C. Yang

Yonsei University (Seoul, S. Korea)

M.A. in Library Information Science
September 2020 – February 2023

  • Faculty Advisor: Min Song
  • Thesis: “Using BERT-based Deep Learning Models to Analyze Antidepressants’ Side Effects with Social Media and Online Community Text Data”

B.A. in Library and Information Science, History
March 2013 – February 2018

Publications

  • Lee, Y., Chang, CH. & Yang, C.C. (2025). Enhancing Patient-Physician Communication: Simulating African American Vernacular English in Medical Diagnostics with Large Language Models. Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research.
  • Chang, C. H., Lucas, M. M, Lee, Y., Yang, C.C. (2024). Beyond Self-Consistency: Ensemble Reasoning Boosts Consistency and Accuracy of LLMs in Cancer Staging. AIME 2024 (Short Paper Track).
  • Lee, Y., Son, J., Song, M. (2022). BertSRC: transformer-based semantic relation classification. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 22(1), 234.

Previous Academic and Professional Experiences

TSMM(Text and Social Media Mining) Lab, Yonsei University

  • September 2022 – August 2023

    Developed a text mining system for analyzing cell-line related data for Korea Bioinformation Center (KOBIC) project.

  • September 2020 – August 2022

    Participated in Korean National Research Foundation Grants project, “Multi-facet Text Mining System Development for MCMT(multi-component multi-target) Analysis” as part of my Master’s research.

Internship

  • February 2019 – November 2019
    Librarian Intern at Columbia University’s C.V. Starr East Asia Library