Yanan Ma

Yanan Ma

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Personal profile

Overview

Yanan Ma is a third-year PhD researcher in the Natural Language Processing and Text Mining group at the University of Manchester, under the supervision of Prof. Goran Nenadic, Dr. Sabine van der Veer, and Dr. Lamiece Hassan.

He is a recipient of the University of Manchester - China Scholarship Council joint scholarship. His research interests lie in large language models (with a current emphasis), natural language processing, text mining, and the semi-automated curation of knowledge from healthcare-related social media data.

Research interests

Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback, Topic Modelling, Health Informatics

Teaching

Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) from October 2022 under UoM. 

Subjects covered:

  • COMP10120 First Year Team Project
  • COMP13212 Data Science
  • COMP34711 Natural Language Processing (Summer Preparation)
  • COMP60542 Introduction to Health Informatics
  • IIDS61311 Modern Information Engineering
  • IIDS69032 Data Visualisation and Communication
  • IIDS67681 Introduction to Health Data Science
  • DATA70141 Understanding Databases

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being

Education/Academic qualification

Master of Science, Information Science, South China Normal University

1 Sept 2016 → 30 Jun 2019

Award Date: 24 Jun 2019

Bachelor of Science, Information Management & Information System, Xinxiang Medical University

1 Sept 2010 → 1 Jul 2014

Award Date: 1 Jul 2014

Visiting Researcher in Information Studies, University of Glasgow

10 Sept 2018 → 10 Mar 2019

Areas of expertise

  • QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science

Keywords

  • Long-Term Conditions
  • Type 1 diabetes
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Text-mining
  • large language models

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  • CAST: Corpus-Aware Self-similarity Enhanced Topic modelling

    Ma, Y., Xiao, C., Yuan, C., van der Veer, S., Hassan, L., Lin, C. & Nenadic, G., 19 Oct 2024.

    Research output: Preprint/Working paper › Preprint

  • Event generators for high-energy physics experiments

    Campbell, J. M., Diefenthaler, M., Hobbs, T. J., Höche, S., Isaacson, J., Kling, F., Mrenna, S., Reuter, J., Alioli, S., Andersen, J. R., Andreopoulos, C., Ankowski, A. M., Aschenauer, E. C., Ashkenazi, A., Baker, M. D., Barrow, J. L., van Beekveld, M., Bewick, G., Bhattacharya, S. & Bierlich, C. & 192 others, Bothmann, E., Bredt, P., Broggio, A., Buckley, A., Butter, A., Butterworth, J. M., Byrne, E. P., Carloni-Calame, C., Chakraborty, S., Chen, X., Chiesa, M., Childers, J. T., Cruz-Martinez, J., Currie, J., Darvishi, N., Dasgupta, M., Denner, A., Dreyer, F. A., Dytman, S., El-Menoufi, B. K., Engel, T., Ravasio, S. F., Figueroa, D., Flower, L., Forshaw, J. R., Frederix, R., Friedland, A., Frixione, S., Gallagher, H., Gallmeister, K., Gardiner, S., Gauld, R., Gaunt, J., Gavardi, A., Gehrmann, T., Gehrmann-De Ridder, A., Gellersen, L., Giele, W., Gieseke, S., Giuli, F., Glover, E. W. N., Grazzini, M., Grohsjean, A., Gütschow, C., Hamilton, K., Han, T., Hatcher, R., Heinrich, G., Helenius, I., Hen, O., Hirschi, V., Höfer, M., Holguin, J., Huss, A., Ilten, P., Jadach, S., Jentsch, A., Jones, S. P., Ju, W., Kallweit, S., Karlberg, A., Katori, T., Kerner, M., Kilian, C., Kilian, W., Kirchgaeßer, M. M., Klein, S., Knobbe, M., Krause, C., Krauss, F., Lang, J., Lang, J., Lee, G., Li, S. W., Lim, M. A., Lindert, J. M., Lombardi, D., Lönnblad, L., Löschner, M., Lurkin, N., Ma, Y., Machado, P., Magerya, V., Maier, A., Majer, I., Maltoni, F., Marcoli, M., Marinelli, G., Masouminia, M. R., Mastrolia, P., Mattelaer, O., Mazzitelli, J., McFayden, J., Medves, R., Meinzinger, P., Mo, J., Monni, P. F., Montagna, G., Morgan, T., Mosel, U., Nachman, B., Nadolsky, P., Nagar, R., Nagy, Z., Napoletano, D., Nason, P., Neumann, T., Nevay, L. J., Nicrosini, O., Niehues, J., Niewczas, K., Ohl, T., Ossola, G., Pandey, V., Papadopoulou, A., Papaefstathiou, A., Paz, G., Pellen, M., Pelliccioli, G., Peraro, T., Piccinini, F., Pickering, L., Pires, J., Placzek, W., Plätzer, S., Plehn, T., Pozzorini, S., Prestel, S., Preuss, C. T., Price, A. C., Quackenbush, S., Re, E., Reichelt, D., Reina, L., Reuschle, C., Richardson, P., Rocco, M., Rocco, N., Roda, M., Garcia, A. R., Roiser, S., Rojo, J., Rottoli, L., Salam, G. P., Schönherr, M., Schuchmann, S., Schumann, S., Schürmann, R., Scyboz, L., Seymour, M. H., Siegert, F., Signer, A., Chahal, G. S., Siódmok, A., Sjöstrand, T., Skands, P., Smillie, J. M., Sobczyk, J. T., Soldin, D., Soper, D. E., Soto-Ontoso, A., Soyez, G., Stagnitto, G., Tena-Vidal, J., Tomalak, O., Tramontano, F., Trojanowski, S., Tu, Z., Uccirati, S., Ullrich, T., Ulrich, Y., Utheim, M., Valassi, A., Verbytskyi, A., Verheyen, R., Wagman, M., Walker, D., Webber, B. R., Weinstein, L., White, O., Whitehead, J., Wiesemann, M., Wilkinson, C., Williams, C., Winterhalder, R., Wret, C., Xie, K., Yang, T.-Z., Yazgan, E., Zanderighi, G., Zanoli, S. & Zapp, K., 24 May 2024, In: SciPost Physics.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Experiences and Views of Young People and Health Care Professionals of Using Social Media to Self-Manage Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus: Thematic Synthesis of Qualitative Studies

    Ma, Y., Law, K., Hassan, L., Nenadic, G. & van der Veer, S., 29 May 2024, In: JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting. 7, e56919.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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