WonJin Yoon

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Harvard Medical School & Boston Children’s Hospital
Harvard Medical SchoolBoston Children’s Hospital
WonJin Yoon
About

I develop reliable language models and natural language processing methods for medicine. At HMS/BCH, I study clinical prediction from electronic health records, with an emphasis on confidence estimation, explanation generation, and reasoning over long clinical documents.

My work spans the language-model lifecycle, from biomedical pre-training to clinical adaptation and evaluation. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Korea University, where I co-led BioBERT, and collaborated with AstraZeneca from 2020 to 2023 on bringing biomedical NLP into industrial use.

Research areas: Clinical NLP, BioNLP
Pronounced “One-gene”
News
Oct 2025
Co-organized the second ChemoTimelines Shared Task at ClinicalNLP 2025.
Mar 2025
Invited talk at the Department of Medical Informatics and Big Data Center, Asan Medical Center.
Jun 2024
Co-organized the inaugural ChemoTimelines Shared Task at ClinicalNLP 2024.
Trivia

Before NLP, I spent much of my undergraduate years studying information security and organizing student-led InfoSec events. I learned a lot from my peers and enjoyed sharing what I knew with junior students. What I learned during those years continues to help me when working with clinical data, where privacy and security are essential—not something I ever expected back then!

2015
Chair, KUICS · Korea University’s information security club
2014
Chair, Inc0gnito Hacking Conference · Student-run security conference across 12 universities