Portrait of Fan Ma

Fan Ma

Postdoctoral Associate · Biomedical Informatics & Data Science · Yale

Scaling life.

Foundation models that learn how health unfolds over a lifetime — to see disease coming, reason about it safely, and add healthy years to human lives.

longitudinal health data · temporal modeling · clinical reasoning

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Research

Mission and toolkit · click a card to filter papers

recent work — newest first

Healthcare FMarXiv 2026 · co-first author

ReClaim Foundation models to unlock real-world evidence from nationwide medical claims

A generative transformer trained from scratch on longitudinal claims trajectories — diagnoses, procedures, medications and expenditure — scaled up to 1.7B parameters and evaluated on more than 1,000 disease-onset prediction tasks.

43.8Bmedical events from 200M+ enrollees
Healthcare FMarXiv 2026 · co-first author

AegisDx Safety-oriented hypothetico-deductive differential diagnosis

Specialized LLM roles with verification gates: generate broad differentials, screen explicitly for must-not-miss conditions and check reasoning against grounded medical evidence.

Healthcare FM · EEGarXiv 2026 · first author

TRACE Autoregressive cross-channel experts for EEG

EEG pre-training that predicts future patches from causal context, with one expert-routing decision per time step shared across all channels to keep them coherent.

3DCVPR 2026 · Oral

AnchorFlow Training-free 3D editing

A global latent anchor shared by source and target flows gives strong, geometrically stable edits without fine-tuning.

AudioCVPR 2026 · Highlight

FoleyDirector Temporal steering for video-to-audio

Structured temporal scripts give precise, multi-event timing control over DiT-based video-to-audio generation.

Video LLMCVPR 2024 · first author

Vista-LLaMA Less hallucination in video LLMs

Keeps every visual token at an equal distance from generated text, so the video still shapes long answers.

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Publications

* equal contribution · Full list on Google Scholar ↗

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News

  1. New preprint: a safety-oriented hypothetico-deductive framework for AI-assisted differential diagnosis.

  2. Released TRACE (EEG representation learning) and foundation models for nationwide medical claims.

  3. Three papers at CVPR 2026 — AnchorFlow (Oral), FoleyDirector (Highlight) and Echoes of Ownership.

  4. Two papers at ICLR 2026: ContextGen and LogiStory.

  5. Two papers at ICCV 2025 and DreamDPO at ICML 2025.

  6. Joined Yale Biomedical Informatics & Data Science as a Postdoctoral Associate.

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About

I'm a Postdoctoral Associate at Yale BIDS, advised by Prof. Hua Xu, building healthcare foundation models with one long-term goal: helping people live longer, healthier lives.

Before Yale I was a postdoctoral researcher at Zhejiang University. I received my Ph.D. from the ReLER Lab, University of Technology Sydney, advised by Prof. Yi Yang, and my M.Eng. and B.Eng. from Xi'an Jiaotong University. My earlier work spans semi-supervised learning, temporal action localization, object tracking, video–language pre-training and controllable generation. Today that multimodal toolkit serves a different question: how can models trained on lifelong health records anticipate disease, guide clinicians, and add healthy years to people's lives?

  • Healthcare foundation models
  • Healthy longevity
  • Disease-onset prediction
  • Claims & EHR
  • EEG & physiological signals
  • Safe clinical reasoning agents
  • toolkit: multimodal & generative learning
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Meta · ByteDance · Baidu
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Journey

  1. 2024 — now

    Yale University

    Postdoctoral Associate, Biomedical Informatics & Data Science · advised by Prof. Hua Xu

  2. 2022 — 2024

    Zhejiang University

    Postdoctoral Researcher

  3. 2022

    ByteDance

    Research Intern

  4. 2021

    Meta · Facebook AI

    Research Intern

  5. 2019

    Baidu Research

    Research Intern

  6. 2018 — 2022

    University of Technology Sydney

    Ph.D. in Computer Science, ReLER Lab · advised by Prof. Yi Yang

  7. 2010 — 2017

    Xi'an Jiaotong University

    B.Eng. & M.Eng. in Computer Science · advised by Prof. Deyu Meng

Open to collaboration

Let's add healthy years
to human lives.

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