Qianru (Amie) Wu, PhD

Nebraska Cancer Registry Informatician II, Department of Epidemiology, UNMC College of Public Health

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Qianru Wu (Amie) joined the UNMC College of Public Health in 2025 as a Nebraska cancer registry informatician. Her work focuses on monitoring and promoting electronic cancer data exchange. She also monitors systems in cancer registry, performs data quality control, develops tools for data exchange and explores new methods to optimize workflow in the registry.

Education

PhD: Meteorology, UNL, 2015
MS: Computer Science, DePaul University, 2017

Selected Publications

Qianru Wu, Lifeng Li, Bhavana Srinivas, Remy Poudel, Yi Du, Elaine Flores, Raquel Brown, Patric Prado, Ming Qu, 2023: Use Natural Language Processing (NLP) to Identify Reportability of Cancer Reports, 2023 CSTE Annual Conference and 2023 NAACCR Annual Conference.
Qianru Wu, Christina Hiller, Veronica Boudreaux, Connie Ganz, Lifeng Li, Mark Watson, Christophe Irumva, Marissa Ayotte, 2022: De-identification Tool for HL7 Formatted Reports, NAACCR 2022 Summer Forum.
Dong Liu, Yi Du, Qianru Wu, Zijian Qin, Xiaoting Sun, Han Liu, Robin M. Williams, L.-W. Antony Chen, Ming Qu, Quanyi Wang, Ge Lin, 2022: School-based COVID-19 Case Growth Rates in the US, What A Crowdsourced Dataset Can Tell Us, Annals of Public Health Reports, doi: 10.36959/856/533.