Hualou Liang, PhD

Professor

School of Biomedical Engineering, Science & Health Systems
Drexel University

Affiliation

Computational Neuroscience Initiative
University of Pennsylvania

🔥 09/29/2024: Our lab won 1st and 2nd place at the INTERSPEECH 2024 TAUKADIAL Challenge for dementia prediction using LLMs. The team developed innovative on-prem open-source Small Language Models (SLMs) to address the privacy and security concerns. The new algorithm fared exceedingly well in the international community and far surpassed those at some top US universities. [News Coverage]

🔥 12/22/2022: Our lab is the first to report the use of GPT-3, a large language model (LLM) produced by OpenAI, for early diagnosis of dementia. The work has been included in GPT-3 Wikipedia page: “A 2022 Drexel University study suggested that systems based on GPT-3 could be used to screen for early signs of Alzheimer’s disease.”

Agbavor, Felix; Liang, Hualou (December 22, 2022). “Predicting dementia from spontaneous speech using large language models”. PLOS Digital Health. 1 (12): e0000168.

Media Coverage: [Drexel News][ScienceDaily][AAAS][AIMBE][Psychology Today][Interesting Engineering][Jerusalem Post][The Examiner][New York Post][IEEE Spectrum][More Press Releases]

Contact

Office: Monell 103
            3508 Market St.
            Philadelphia, PA 19104
Tel: 215-571-3706
Email: hualou.liang*at*drexel.edu