About me

My name is Guanghui Qin. I work as a researcher at Microsoft Research, Redmond, collaborating with Hoifung Poon. My research focuses on multimodal machine learning for clinical diagnosis and precision health.

I obtained my Ph.D. in 2024 from Johns Hopkins University in natural language processing, advised by Professor Benjamin Van Durme. I used to work as a research intern at Microsoft, mentored by Chin-Yew Lin and Jin-Ge Yao in 2017, by Anthony Platanios in 2022, and by Corby Rosset in 2023. I was a visiting student at Johns Hopkins University in 2018, mentored by Hongyuan Mei and Jason Eisner.

My email address is <last_name>.<first_name> followed by @microsoft.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, time-series analysis, and grounded language acquisition.

Walless

I am also known as hiaoxui, the founder of WallessPKU. Walless is a platform that helps students from more than 100 institutions to circumvent the Great Firewall. For the past 10 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.