PHYSICIAN · ENGINEER · RESEARCHER

What a
decision
needs to know.

I’m a physician who moved into computer science. Most of my work comes back to one question: when information is turned into something a person or a machine can act on, what gets kept and what gets lost?

Jing-Rung Huang in glasses and a white physician’s coat, with one hand resting thoughtfully at his chin.
Jing-Rung HuangPhysician · PhD candidate
AT THE INTERSECTION OF DISCIPLINESAn ongoing inquiry

2 RESEARCH DIRECTIONS

Three fields.
A shared curiosity.

On paper, the three directions below belong to different fields. In practice, they keep running into each other.

Clinical information representations, decision support, diagnostic concepts, and information loss.

Genetic variation, molecular mechanisms, computational modeling, and translational research.

3 BEYOND A SINGLE DISCIPLINE

The space
between fields.

Medicine asks what matters to a person. Engineering asks how a system works. Research asks what we have yet to understand.

The work I find most interesting sits where they overlap: a clinical observation that turns into a computational question, or a technical assumption that ends up mattering to a patient.

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4 / RESEARCH PERSPECTIVE

Understanding begins
with a question.

Something noticed in one field often turns out to be an open question in another. I try to leave room for that, even when it doesn’t fit neatly into one discipline.