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Lucy Lu Wang is an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington's Information School. Her research focuses on building AI Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems for extracting understanding from scientific texts. A significant part of her work aims to create systems that leverage up-to-date literature to enable data-driven healthcare decisions. She has also designed document understanding models that improve the readability of scientific texts for people who are blind or have low vision. Her contributions to the field include studies on gender trends in academic publishing, interaction detection, and the analysis of COVID-19 datasets. Lucy's research has been featured in prominent media outlets such as GeekWire, Axios, and VentureBeat. Prior to her current position, she was a Young Investigator at the Allen Institute for AI and completed her PhD in Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education at the University of Washington in 2019. Lucy's educational background also includes a Master’s degree in Applied Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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