Hi, I'm Joshua Chen

joshua86[at]illinois[dot]edu, github, linkedin

I’m a student, engineer, and researcher pursuing BS Computer Science + Statistics at UIUC. Based in Seattle, Washington and Champaign, Illinois

curr->:

1. Engineering PyHealth. Maintaining open source repo and building multimodal clinical prediction pipeline.
   1. Under review for MLHC 2026: Treating Every Patient Event as a Token: A Benchmark for Multimodal Clinical Prediction Under Missingness
2. Building PivotHire, platform for outsourcing Chinese software engineers
3. Director of Software at TEDxUIUC

prev->:

1. 1st place CalHacks 2025 developer track
2. Researched hallucination interpretability and alignment at OnCARE lab
3. Produced popular discord bot BananaBot (70+ servers)
4. Taught CS124 as a course assistant

misc:

1. Off-piste skier, v5 climber, Ex-EA soccer midfielder