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Dr. Ye Ye is an alumna of the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) and Intelligent Systems Program, where she earned her PhD (2011–2018), completed postdoctoral training (2019–2022), and served as a tenure-track Assistant Professor (2022–2025). Since May 2025, she has been an Associate Professor at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) and continues to serve as Adjunct Faculty at both DBMI and the Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) at Pitt.

Her research focuses on developing and applying AI methods to support public health disease surveillance, patient risk prediction, healthcare utilization analysis, and population health management. She leads the AI for Population Health Lab (https://ai-in-population-health-lab.github.io/homePage/) and has received a K99/R00 award from the National Library of Medicine. Her work has been recognized by the American Medical Informatics Association (Doctoral Dissertation Award Finalist, 2019), IEEE ICHI (Best Paper Award, Analyst Track, 2024), the CDC (Best Statistical Science Theoretical Paper, 2014), and the University of Pittsburgh (Innovator Award, 2016). She serves on the editorial boards of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (since 2017) and the Journal of Biomedical Informatics (since 2024) and is a member of the NIH MIDAS Steering Committee (since 2025).