Dr. Hao Xu

Bio

Dr. Hao Xu is currently a Research Fellow in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. His research lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence and biomedical science, focusing on building data-efficient and interpretable AI systems to advance drug discovery and healthcare.

Research interests include:

• AI for Science
• AI for Healthcare
• AI for Business and Operation
• Large Language Model Reasoning
• Vision Understanding and Generation

Work Experience

• 2024–2026: Research Fellow in AI & Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University
• 2024–2026: Affiliated Research Fellow, Department of Physics, Network Science Institute, Northeastern University
• 2023–2024: Postdoctoral Associate in ML, Department of Computer Science, Brandeis University
• 2023–2024: Affiliated Postdoctoral Associate, GlycoMIP — NSF-funded Materials Innovation Platform based at Virginia Tech and University of Georgia

Education

• 2020–2022: M.S. in Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
• 2017–2022: Ph.D. in Chemistry, Boston College
• 2015–2017: M.S. in Computational Chemistry, Southern Methodist University
• 2011–2015: B.S. in Chemistry & B.Econ. in Finance, China Agricultural University