The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
2025 – Present
M.D. Student
Andrew J Yang
Medical Student & Computational Researcher
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
About
I am a first-year medical student at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. My research interests are at the intersection of data science and medicine. I am passionate about leveraging statistics and machine learning to extract meaningful insights from biomedical data.
News
- Dec 2025 My first-author work on agentic data analysis has been accepted at npj Artificial Intelligence. Preprint available on medRxiv.
- Jun 2025 I presented at the 38th New England Statistics Symposium and received the NESS Student Poster Award.
Selected Works
Tool-wielding language-model-based agent offers conversational clinical data exploration
medRxiv, 2025. DOI
Shifting from redundancy to rigor in orthopedic large language model research
Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic & Related Surgery, 2025. DOI
Custom large language models improve accuracy: comparing retrieval augmented generation and artificial intelligence agents to non-custom models for evidence-based medicine
Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic & Related Surgery, 2024. DOI
Education
Brown University
2021 – 2025
Sc.B. in Computer Science & Applied Mathematics; A.B. in Biology
magna cum laude with honors in computer science and applied mathematics
Research Experience
Brown Center for Computational Molecular Biology
2023 – Present
Student Researcher - Spatial Transcriptomics
Developing statistical and machine learning methods for spatial transcriptomics data analysis.
Regeneron
2023 – 2024
Research Intern - Machine Learning
Researched generative ML models to predict clinical trial outcomes and built predictive models for metabolic liver disease diagnosis.