About me

My name is Guanghui Qin (秦光辉). I work at the Health Futures team at Microsoft Research, Redmond. My research focuses on multimodal machine learning for clinical diagnosis and precision health.

I obtained my Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in natural language processing, advised by Professor Benjamin Van Durme. Before my Ph.D. program, I obtained a bachelor’s degree in physics at Peking University. I used to work as a research intern at Microsoft Research (mentored by Corby Rosset), Microsoft Semantic Machines (mentored by Anthony Platanios), and Microsoft Research Asia (mentored by Chin-Yew Lin). I was a visiting student at Johns Hopkins University in 2018, mentored by Hongyuan Mei and Jason Eisner.

My email address is hiaoxui followed by @gmail.com.

My research

My current research focuses on AI for healthcare. Most recently, I work on oncological diagnosis with multimodal machine learning.

In the past, I worked on efficient language modeling (thesis topic), information extraction, prompting (for which I won the Best Short Paper award in NAACL 2021), time-series analysis, and grounded language acquisition.

Walless

I am also known as hiaoxui, the founder of WallessPKU. Walless is a platform that helps Chinese students to circumvent the Great Firewall. For over 8 years, I have been developing and funding this non-profit project that benefits tens of thousands of people to access the internet without censorship.

My name

My name is 秦光辉 in Chinese. Guang’hui is pronounced like kwang-huei. Qin is like Chin.