Haodong Chen

Room 634, General Purpose South, The University of Queensland, BNE, QLD, AU, 4066

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First-year PhD student at UQ
CS / NLP / IR
LLM / RAG / Healthcare
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Hi there!πŸ‘‹ I am a first-year PhD student in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at The University of Queensland (UQ), Brisbane, Australia.

I am a proud recipient of a full PhD scholarship from the Queensland Digital Health Centre (QDHeC). My research is conducted as a member of the Information Engineering Lab (ieLab) group, and I am supervised by Dr. Teerapong Leelanupab and Prof. Guido Zuccon.

I hold a Master of Engineering Science degree from UQ, completed in July 2025.

My research interests lie at the intersection of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Healthcare Informatics, with a particular focus on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) . Specifically, I am focusing on the following two areas:

1.Leveraging LLMs for various applications in the healthcare domain.

2.The application of Agentic RAG systems for healthcare information access.

Beyond research, I also serve as a tutor for DATA7901 – Data Science Capstone Project.

news

Aug 31, 2025 πŸ”₯ Our paper β€œBeyond GeneGPT: A Multi-Agent Architecture with Open-Source LLMs for Enhanced Genomic Question Answering” has been accepted at SIGIR-AP 2025! Looking forward to presenting it in December!
Jul 15, 2025 πŸ§‘β€πŸ’» Thrilled to begin my PhD journey!
Jul 12, 2025 πŸŽ‰ Excited to announce that I have been awarded a full PhD scholarship from QDHC.
Jul 08, 2025 πŸ₯‡ Honored to receive the Dean’s Commendation for Academic Excellence Award.
Jul 01, 2025 πŸŽ“ Proud to share that I have completed my Master of Engineering Science at the University of Queensland (UQ).