PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Yifan Peng

Yifan Peng is a biomedical AI researcher who studies biomedical natural-language processing and medical image analysis. He earned a B.S.E. in computer science and technology at Beijing University of Technology, master's degrees at Peking University and the University of Delaware, and a Ph.D. at Delaware. He worked as a Research Fellow at NIH's NCBI, coauthored the BLUE benchmark and a COVID-19 CT and chest X-ray collection, and joined Weill Cornell Medicine as an assistant professor in 2020. The American Medical Informatics Association named him the 2023 New Investigator Award recipient, and the American College of Medical Informatics elected him a fellow in 2024. As of October 2026, he is an associate professor and deputy director of Weill Cornell's Institute of AI for Digital Health, and serves as Deputy Editor of Radiology Advances.

Works
319
Citations
15,505
h-index
46

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 27 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2007

    A computer science degree

    He earns a B.S.E. in computer science and technology at Beijing University of Technology in 2007.

  2. 2010–2013

    Master's degrees

    He earns an M.Eng. in signal and information processing at Peking University in 2010 and an M.S. in computer science at the University of Delaware in 2013.

  3. 2016

    A computer science PhD

    He earns a Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Delaware in 2016, with Cathy H. Wu and Vijay K. Shanker as advisors.

  4. 2016–2020

    NCBI research and the BLUE benchmark

    From 2016 to 2020, he works as a Research Fellow at NCBI, NIH, in Bethesda, Maryland. In 2019, he coauthors the BLUE benchmark, which covers five tasks across ten biomedical and clinical text datasets.

  5. 2020

    COVID-19-CT-CXR dataset

    In 2020, he coauthors COVID-19-CT-CXR, a collection of 1,327 CT and 263 chest X-ray images from biomedical literature.

  6. 2020

    Assistant professor at Weill Cornell

    In 2020, he becomes an Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine.

  7. 2023

    AMIA New Investigator Award

    In 2023, he receives the AMIA New Investigator Award.

  8. 2024

    Elected ACMI fellow

    He is elected a fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics in 2024.

  9. As of October 2026

    Associate professor and deputy editor

    He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine and Deputy Director of the WCM Institute of AI for Digital Health. In 2026, he becomes Deputy Editor of Radiology Advances.

Career

  1. NowCornell UniversityAssociate Professor
  2. NowCornell UniversityDeputy Director, WCM Institute of AI for Digital Health
  3. From 2020Cornell UniversityAssistant Professor of Population Health Sciences
  4. 2016–2020United States Department of Health and Human ServicesResearch Fellow

Education

  1. 2016University of DelawarePhD in Computer Science
  2. 2013University of DelawareMS in Computer Science
  3. 2010Peking UniversityMEng in Signal and Information Processing
  4. 2007Beijing University of TechnologyBSE in Computer Science and Technology

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Colleagues

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

Sources and credits

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  1. Yifan PENG pengyifan.com. Checked 27 October 2026.
  2. Yifan Peng ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Checked 27 October 2026.
  3. Transfer Learning in Biomedical Natural Language Processing: An Evaluation of BERT and ELMo on Ten Benchmarking Datasets arxiv.org. Checked 27 October 2026.
  4. COVID-19-CT-CXR: a freely accessible and weakly labeled chest X-ray and CT image collection on COVID-19 from biomedical literature arxiv.org. Checked 27 October 2026.
  5. Meet our Cornell Faculty and Experts - eCornell ecornell.cornell.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.
  6. Yifan Peng | Peng Lab penglab.weill.cornell.edu. Checked 27 October 2026.