Yiye Zhang

Biography

Yiye Zhang is an Assistant professor in the Division of Health Informatics, Faculty Director of the M.S. Program in Health Informatics at the Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University. She also has a secondary appointment in the Emergency Department at Weill Cornell Medicine.

As a health informaticist, Dr. Zhang has years of research experience in developing tools to analyze and visualize healthcare information including electronic health records. As a principal investigator, Dr. Zhang’s research has been funded by multiple federal agencies including the National Library of Medicine of National Institute of Health, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the U.S. Department of Transportation Tier 1 University Transportation Center.

Dr. Zhang received her Ph.D. degree in information systems and management at Carnegie Mellon University. She has a B.A. in mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.S. in biostatistics from Columbia University.

Research Interests

My research interests are "learning health systems", where data-driven approaches such as machine learning and data mining are applied in creating the next generation of healthcare information technology to better assist healthcare providers and patients in making decisions.

• Clinical Decision Support
• Machine Learning in Medicine
• Social Detriments of Health
• Chronic Disease, Emergency Medicine