Prof. Jimeng Sun, UIUC: PyHealth - An Open Toolkit for Clinical Predictive Modeling and Patient Journey Prediction

​​EvenUp is excited host the EvenUp Distinguished Speaker Series featuring innovators, researchers and engineers in GenAI. These events will be virtual, hosting on Google Meet to allow for anyone to join and learn!

Our first speaker will be Prof. Jimeng Sun, UIUC, discussing PyHealth: An Open Toolkit for Clinical Predictive Modeling and Patient Journey Prediction

Speaker Bio:
Jimeng Sun, PhD is Health Innovation Professor at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is also is also cofounder and CEO of Keiji AI.

Dr. Sun leads the Sun Lab, where his team develops machine learning methods and open-source platforms for healthcare, including PyHealth, a Python library designed to streamline the development and evaluation of predictive health models. He has published over 400 papers, received multiple NSF and NIH grants, and was named one of the Top 100 AI Leaders in Drug Discovery and Advanced Healthcare.

This talk will introduce the design philosophy of PyHealth: making predictive health modeling accessible, reproducible, and extensible. Dr. Sun will showcase case studies where PyHealth has been applied to large-scale electronic health records, medical imaging, and multi-modal patient data for tasks including:

• ​​Predicting disease trajectories and patient outcomes.

• ​​Modeling treatment pathways and medication changes.

• ​​Building interpretable models that enhance clinical decision support.

​​He will also discuss how PyHealth supports education and collaboration: it has been taught in graduate-level courses at UIUC and Georgia Tech, and adopted by the healthcare AI research community to benchmark new methods.

Finally, he will highlight ongoing directions, such as integrating PyHealth with federated learning frameworks and LLM-based clinical prediction systems.