Fengyi Gao is a first-year PhD student in the Intelligent Systems Program. She is a researcher affiliated with the HexAI Research Laboratory and the Computational Pathology & AI Center of Excellence (CPACE). Her research focuses on advancing artificial intelligence to address real-world medical and scientific problems, with an emphasis on developing and validating data mining and machine learning models using structured and unstructured clinical data to support clinical decision-making and improve patient care.