TreatRAG: A Framework for Personalized Treatment Recommendation

Chao-Chin Liu, Hao-Ren Yao, Der-Chen Chang and Ophir Frieder

 ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys) 2024

Forecasting Prescription Efficacy

Hao-Ren Yao, Oskar Mencer, Han-Sun Chiang MD, Der-Chen Chang, and Ophir Frieder

European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) 2025

Distilling Multi-Scale Knowledge for Event Temporal Relation Extraction

Hao-Ren Yao, Luke Breitfeller, Aakanksha Naik, Chunxiao Zhou and Carolyn Rose

ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2024

(Full Research Track with Oral presentation, acceptance rate 23%)

A Fractional-Order Model for Optimizing Combination Therapy in Heterogeneous Lung Cancer: Integrating Immunotherapy and Targeted Therapy to Minimize Side Effects

David Amilo, Chinedu Izuchukwu, Khadijeh Sadri Khatouni, and Hao-Ren Yao

Scientific Reports 2024

(SCI Q1 IF 3.8)

Self-supervised Representation Learning on Electronic Health Records with Graph Kernel Infomax

Hao-Ren Yao, Nairen Cao, Katina Russell, Der-Chen Chang, Ophir Frieder, and Jeremy T. Fineman

ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare (HEALTH) 2024 

(Invited to oral presentation at IEEE/ACM CHASE 2024)

(SCI Q1 IF 8.0)

Heat kernels on unit spheres and applications to graph kernels

Der-Chen Chang, Ophir Frieder, Chi-Feng Hung, and Hao-Ren Yao

Journal of Nonlinear and Variational Analysis 2023 

(SCI Q1 IF 2.175)

Generalized-Hukuhara Subdifferential Analysis and Its Application in Nonconvex Composite Interval Optimization Problems  

A. Anshika, Debdas Ghosh, Radko Mesiar, Hao-Ren Yao, and Ram Surat Chauhan

Information Sciences 2023 

(SCI Q1 IF 8.233)

Clinical Aligned Interpretable Graph-Based Modeling for Intelligent System in Predictive Medicine

Hao-Ren Yao

Georgetown University, PhD dissertation 2021

The analysis from nonlinear distance metric to kernel-based prescription prediction system

Der-Chen Chang, Ophir Frieder, Chi-Feng Hung, and Hao-Ren Yao

Journal of Nonlinear and Variational Analysis 2021 

(SCI Q1 IF 2.175)

Cross-Global Attention Graph Kernel Network Prediction of Drug Prescription

Hao-Ren Yao, Der-Chen Chang, Ophir Frieder, Wendy Huang, I-Chia Liang and Chi-Feng Hung

ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB) 2020 

(Full paper with Oral presentation, acceptance rate 31%)

GUIR at SemEval-2020 Task 12: Domain-Tuned Contextualized Models for Offensive Language Detection

Tong Xiang*, Sajad Sotudeh*, Hao-Ren Yao, Sean MacAvaney, Eugene Yang, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder

* equal contribution

SemEval @ COLING 2020

Hate speech detection: Challenges and solutions

Sean MacAvaney, Hao-Ren Yao, Eugene Yang, Katina Russell, Nazli Goharian, Ophir Frieder

PLoS ONE 2019 

(SCI Q1 IF 3.24 - highly cited paper)

Multiple Graph Kernel Fusion Prediction of Drug Prescription

Hao-Ren Yao, Der-Chen Chang, Ophir Frieder, Wendy Huang, and Tian-Shyug Lee

ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB) 2019 

(Full paper with Oral presentation, acceptance rate 27%)

Graph Kernel Prediction of Drug Prescription

Hao-Ren Yao, Der-Chen Chang, Ophir Frieder, Wendy Huang, and Tian-Shyug Lee

IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (IEEE-BHI) 2019

(Full paper with Oral presentation, acceptance rate 11%) 

On Bochner's theorem and its application to graph kernels

Der-Chen Chang, Ophir Frieder, and Hao-Ren Yao

Journal of Nonlinear and Convex Analysis 2018 

(SCI Q2 IF 1.075)

Topic Participation Algorithm for Social Search Engine Based on Facebook Dataset

Hao-Ren Yao and I-Hsien Ting

MISNC 2014

Method and system for assessing drug efficacy using multiple graph kernel fusion

(Co-Inventor: Ophir Frieder and Der-Chen Chang)

Assignee: Georgetown University

U.S. Patent #11410763, August 9, 2022

Method and System for Assessing Drug Efficacy Using Multiple Graph Kernel Fusion

(Co-Inventor: Ophir Frieder and Der-Chen Chang)

Assignee: Georgetown University

U.S. Patent #11238966, February 1, 2022

Explainable AI-driven prescription prediction technologies

Maxeler Technologies, UK

License announced on January 2020

Cross-Global Attention Graph Kernel Network Prediction of Drug Prescription

(Co-Inventor: Ophir Frieder and Der-Chen Chang)

Assignee: Georgetown University

U.S. Pending provisional application #63/042,676, filed on June 23, 2020

Multiple Graph Kernel Fusion Prediction of Drug Prescription

(Co-Inventor: Ophir Frieder and Der-Chen Chang)

Assignee: Georgetown University

U.S. Pending provisional application #62/930/072, filed on November 4, 2019

• NIH Postdoctoral Intramural Research Training Awards (IRTAs), 2021

• National Science Foundation (NSF) Student Travel Award, IEEE BHI-BSN, 2019

• Presidential Award, National University of Kaohsiung, 2014

• Excellent Graduate, National University of Kaohsiung, 2014

• Valedictorian, National University of Kaohsiung, 2014

• Second Place, South Taiwanese Student Creativity Competition, 2013

• Second Place, Graduation Project Competition, National University of Kaohsiung, 2013

• Second Place, International ICT Innovative Services Contest, 2013

• Speaker, Trends in Social Network Research Taipei Workshop, Academia Sinica, 2013

• First Place, Social Network Analysis Competition, National University of Kaohsiung, 2013

• College Student Research Training Fellowship, ROC National Science Council,  2013