People

Principal Investigator

Guannan Gong, PhD

Associate Research Scientist
Department of Medical Oncology and Hematology
Yale School of Medicine · Yale Cancer Center

Guannan Gong leads research at the intersection of clinical informatics, artificial intelligence, and oncology. His work focuses on digital phenotyping from electronic health records, clinical trial patient matching, and scalable NLP methods for structuring trial eligibility criteria. He is the founder of CtrlTrial, which translates lab research into tools for real-time clinical trial recruitment.

Education

PhD, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics — Yale University (2021)
MS, Computer Science — Columbia University (2009)

Contact: guannan.gong@yale.edu · Yale profile · ORCID 0000-0002-4972-6705

Team

Jessica Liu

Postgraduate Associate
Yale Cancer Center
Yale School of Medicine

Contact: jessica.liu.jl3722@yale.edu · Yale profile

Michelle Song, MS

Research Assistant
Yale School of Medicine

Contact: michelle.song@yale.edu

Robert Ke

Graduate Student and Research Assistant
Yale School of Public Health

Contact: robert.ke@yale.edu

Yujie Zhang

Graduate Student and Research Assistant
Yale School of Public Health

Contact: yujie.zhang@yale.edu

Alumni

We are grateful to former students and trainees who contributed to Gong Lab research during their time at Yale.

Justin Xie — Yale College; clinical trial eligibility criteria NLP framework (JMIR Research Protocols, 2026)
Jeet Parikh — Yale College; clinical trial eligibility criteria NLP framework (JMIR Research Protocols, 2026)
Sameer Pandya, MS — Data Scientist; clinical trial patient matching and real-world EHR data informatics