Eric (Haoran) Chen

AI Platforms in Healthcare & Life Sciences

I design and deploy AI-powered platforms in healthcare and life sciences, translating complex biomedical workflows into reliable, production-ready systems adopted by scientists and clinicians.

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What I Work On

End-to-end AI platforms for digital pathology and biomedical imaging
Foundation-model–driven image search and similarity systems at institutional scale
Interactive portals for multimodal data exploration and scientific decision support
Cross-functional delivery spanning research, engineering, and end users

Selected Platforms & Systems

PeCan — St. Jude Cloud

Digital pathology & histology exploration · Public platform

Led architecture and implementation of a foundation-model–based visual search system for whole-slide pathology images
Enabled retrieval of visually similar cases from 3,000+ WSIs in seconds
Designed the full system stack: model inference, embedding search, backend services, and interactive UI
Worked closely with pathologists, scientists, and platform engineers to deliver a usable product

Live site

COMET — Multimodal Data Portal

Production system · Cross-disciplinary initiative

Designed and delivered an interactive web platform integrating imaging and molecular data
Supported exploratory analysis and hypothesis generation across modalities
Defined requirements and delivery milestones with cross-functional teams
Emphasized usability, performance, and long-term maintainability

Live site

PathSearch-lite (In progress)

Lightweight demo for system design discussions

Simplified pathology image search pipeline derived from production systems
Designed as a shareable artifact for architectural walkthroughs and demos
Focused on explaining design tradeoffs rather than feature completeness

Repo (when ready)

Selected Open-Source Tools (PhD)

A few research-grade tools I built during my PhD. These are focused on clarity and reproducibility, with detailed READMEs and documentation.

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Background

PhD, Computational Biology — Carnegie Mellon University
Senior Bioinformatics Research Scientist — St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
7+ years building AI/ML systems across digital pathology, imaging, and multimodal biology

Contact

For technical discussions, collaborations, or questions about the systems above:

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