Yanshan Wang on Pitt HexAI

Yanshan Wang (PhD, FAMIA), Vice Chair for Research and Assistant Professor of Health Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh, speaks with Pitt HexAI podcast host Jordan Gass-Pooré.

Yanshan is also the interim Director of Generative AI with the University of Pittsburgh's Computational Pathology and AI Center of Excellence and he leads the Clinical Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence Innovation Laboratory (PittNAIL). Jordan and Yanshan discuss his journey into biomedical and health informatics, his role as Vice Chair of Research, his views on explainable AI, private sector engagement around AI transparency, and on emerging generative AI models and computational resources at Pitt. Yanshan closes the interview with advice for students on setting up research projects.