PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Jiang Bian

Also known as Bian Jiang

Jiang Bian is a biomedical informatician who applies artificial intelligence and data science to clinical research. He earned degrees from Tongji University and the University of Arkansas, then led a OneFlorida+ project that used electronic health records to track diabetes among Florida children and teenagers. At the University of Florida, he received the College of Medicine's 2021 Basic Science Research Award, became UF Health's chief data scientist in 2022 and coauthored GatorTron, a clinical language model. He was named the inaugural hire for the Walther and Regenstrief Endowed Chair in Cancer Informatics in 2024 and co-organized an IU–Purdue machine learning symposium in 2025. In 2026, he became a Fellow of the Association for Clinical and Translational Science and serves as chief data scientist at Regenstrief and IU Health and as associate dean of data science at IU School of Medicine.

Now at
Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University

Timeline

  1. 2005–2010

    Degrees at Tongji and Arkansas

    He earns a bachelor's degree from Tongji University in 2005, a master's degree from the University of Arkansas in 2007, and a PhD from the University of Arkansas in 2010.

  2. 2020

    OneFlorida+ diabetes tracking

    In August 2020, he leads a team that uses the OneFlorida Data Trust's electronic health records to track diabetes diagnoses and care access among children and teenagers in Florida.

  3. 2021

    A College of Medicine award

    In 2021, he receives the UF College of Medicine Basic Science Research Award.

  4. 2022

    UF Health and GatorTron

    In July 2022, UF Health names him chief data scientist to support data scientists, improve research infrastructure and expand data science and AI research. He coauthors GatorTron in 2022, a clinical language model built using more than 90 billion words and evaluated on five clinical NLP tasks.

  5. 2024

    A cancer informatics chair

    In 2024, he is named the inaugural hire for the Walther and Regenstrief Endowed Chair in Cancer Informatics.

  6. May 2025

    A machine learning symposium

    On May 9, 2025, he co-organizes the Machine Learning in Medicine Joint Symposium with Purdue and presents “Real-world Data, Real-world Problems, and Real-world Opportunities with A.I.”

  7. 2026

    An ACTS fellowship

    In April 2026, he is named a Fellow of the Association for Clinical and Translational Science (ACTS) as part of its inaugural cohort.

  8. As of October 2026

    Chief data scientist in Indiana

    As of October 2026, he is chief data scientist at Regenstrief Institute and IU Health, the inaugural Walther and Regenstrief Endowed Chair in Cancer Informatics, and associate dean of data science at IU School of Medicine.

Career

  1. NowRegenstrief InstituteChief Data Scientist
  2. NowIndiana UniversityChief Data Scientist
  3. From 2022University of FloridaChief Data Scientist

Education

  1. 2010University of Arkansas at FayettevillePhD
  2. 2007University of Arkansas at FayettevilleMaster's degree
  3. 2005Tongji UniversityBachelor's degree

From the biography.

  1. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other universityIncludes Indiana University. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology trained or employed 44 of the 187 AI major-prize winners, more than any other university. We compare doctorate and 5+ year employment links, career timing and current workplaces for 187 major-prize and 1,111 best-paper winners.
  2. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes Indiana University. We estimate where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led. Massachusetts Institute of Technology leads with 467 former students, including 291 recorded doctorates.
  3. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974Includes Indiana University. We estimate where the people shaping AI worked when their most-cited papers appeared: the company share was 31% in 2020–2024 and 8% in 1970–1974, and Google led all organizations in 2020–2024.
  4. Google has the highest combined h-index among AI organizationsIncludes Indiana University. We estimate that Google holds the highest combined h-index at 8,016, while universities account for 73% of the deduplicated total across AI organizations.

Colleagues

People with dated positions at the same organization in the same years.

Sources and credits

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  1. Jiang Bian, PhD medicine.iu.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  2. Developing the next generation of tools to track diabetes in Florida youths onefl.net. Checked 21 October 2026.
  3. College announces clinical science and basic science faculty research awards news.drgator.ufl.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  4. UF Health Appoints Chief Data Scientist innovate.research.ufl.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  5. GatorTron: A Large Clinical Language Model to Unlock Patient Information from Unstructured Electronic Health Records arxiv.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  6. In The News | Walther Cancer Foundation walther.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  7. IU medical scientists, Purdue engineers meet at symposium to foster collaborative research medicine.iu.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.
  8. Regenstrief researcher Jiang Bian named Fellow of ACTS inaugural cohort regenstrief.org. Checked 21 October 2026.
  9. Jiang Bian, Ph.D.: Member Biography: Indiana University Melvin & Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center cancer.iu.edu. Checked 21 October 2026.