News & Insights
The latest from Hill Research on AI in clinical trials, biostatistics innovation, and industry developments.
David Hall Joins Hill Research as Chief Revenue Officer
Hill Research has named David A. Hall Chief Revenue Officer and Wei Xiang an AI Software Engineer, formalizing two roles built around Vincent Wang, who has led AI innovation at Hill Research since May 2026.
Executive Insight Report Published: Industrializing Clinical Biometrics
Hill Research has published the Executive Insight Report from Session 2 of the Clinical AI Mastermind 2026 series, drawing on keynotes and a panel discussion with about 40 senior clinical biometrics, data science, and clinical development leaders hosted at Johnson & Johnson.
Hill Research Presents ESDA at KDD 2026 in Jeju, Korea
Hill Research presented "From Tool Traces to Strategy Banks" at the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference in Jeju, Korea, introducing ESDA — a system that mines agent debugging traces into a reusable strategy bank and reaches 84.7% success on RepoBench with 4.0x fewer evaluator calls.
Hill Research Exhibits and Sponsors JSM 2026 in Boston
Hill Research attended the 2026 Joint Statistical Meetings as an exhibitor and official sponsor, hosting Booth 607 in the EXPO hall at the Thomas M. Menino Convention & Exhibition Center in Boston from August 2 to 5, 2026.
Hill Research Co-Hosts Clinical AI Mastermind S2 at Johnson & Johnson
Hill Research co-hosted Session 2 of the Clinical AI Mastermind 2026 series — 'Industrializing Clinical Biometrics: From Pilots to Enterprise AI' — at Johnson & Johnson in Cambridge, with senior biometrics, data science, and clinical development leaders from Sanofi, Alexion, NovaBridge, Pfizer, Takeda, and Novo Nordisk.
Hill Research Named an Awardee in Johnson & Johnson's Data & AI Fueling R&D of Tomorrow QuickFire Challenge
Hill Research has been named an awardee of the Data & AI Fueling R&D of Tomorrow QuickFire Challenge: Singapore & Beyond, receiving grant funding and mentorship from Johnson & Johnson along with a JLABS Singapore virtual membership.
Hill Research CTO Dr. Jack Li Speaks at AGI Summit SF 2026 Fireside Chat
Hill Research CTO Dr. Jack Li joined a private fireside chat, "AI for Everyone: From AGI to Real-Life Transformation," a side event of AGI Summit SF 2026 hosted by Bay AI Circle at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco.
Hill Research at ACL 2026: Contract-Checked Editing for Verifier-Guided LLM Reasoning
Hill Research's Kai Zheng presented "From Trajectories to Graphs: Contract-Checked Editing for Verifier-Guided LLM Reasoning" at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics in San Diego. The long paper lifts verifier-runnable recombination from 41.2% to 92.8% while using 42% fewer verifier calls.
Announcing TriClick™ 3.0 — Stronger Generation, Full Submission Documents, and Protocol-to-CRF
TriClick 3.0 raises accuracy across SDTM, ADaM, and TLF generation, adds submission-grade reviewer documents (ADRG, SDRG, Define.xml), ships a customer-facing Audit Package with Lineage Graph, and introduces a new Data Management Agent for Protocol-to-CRF.
Covenant Makes Follow-On Investment in Hill Research
Covenant has made a follow-on investment in Hill Research, with the New Jersey Economic Development Authority's Evergreen Innovation Fund participating as a limited partner. The announcement, made July 1, 2026, cites a fourfold revenue increase from 2024 to 2025 and accelerating adoption of the TriClick platform.
TriClick™ Subscriptions Are Now Open — Self Sign-Up Launched
Self-serve TriClick™ subscriptions are now live. Biostatisticians, programmers, and clinical scientists can sign up in minutes and test TriClick on real workflows — no procurement cycle, no sales call. Individual plans start at $79/month.
Hill Research at SIGMETRICS 2026: EviDex for Fresh and Auditable Retrieval
Hill Research's Kai Zheng presented "EviDex: Provenance-Weighted Evidence-Path Indexing for Fresh and Auditable Retrieval under Continuous Updates" at ACM SIGMETRICS 2026 in Ann Arbor. The paper cuts stale-evidence violations to 1.3% at 42% lower cost than the strongest streaming baseline.
Hill Research at Takeda's Commonwealth of Innovation 250th Celebration
Hill Research's Head of Finance CoCo Qu represented the company at Takeda's Commonwealth of Innovation 250th Celebration, hosted by Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey and Economic Development Secretary Eric Paley at Takeda's Fortis Hall in Lexington.
Hill Research at Boston Tech Week by a16z — Hosted by MedRock Ventures & J.P. Morgan Life Sciences
Hill Research CEO Dr. Louise Liu represented the company at the Boston Tech Week by a16z event hosted by MedRock Ventures, J.P. Morgan Life Sciences, Cushman & Wakefield, and Orbiss Inc., showcasing TriClick alongside founders tackling the AI + biotech intersection.
Hill Research's Tom Chen to Present Med-ICE at MBSW 2026
Hill Research's Tom (Zhiyuan) Chen will present Med-ICE — a multi-agent consensus framework for medical AI factual accuracy — at the 49th Annual Midwest Biopharmaceutical Statistics Workshop (MBSW) in Carmel, Indiana, May 27–29, 2026.
Louise Liu Named to 2026 Top 10 Outstanding Chinese American Youth
Hill Research CEO Dr. Louise Liu has been named one of the 2026 Top 10 Outstanding Chinese American Youth by the American Chinese Youth Federation (AACYF), recognized in the Technology and Academia category for building an AI-powered clinical data platform that compresses processes traditionally requiring months into approximately 90 minutes.
Hill Research Co-Hosts Clinical AI Mastermind S1 at J&J Innovative Medicine
Hill Research co-hosted Session 1 of the Clinical AI Mastermind 2026 series — 'The Submission Last-Mile: Redefining Clinical Velocity' — at Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine in Cambridge, with Director-plus leaders from Pfizer, J&J, Takeda, and Alexion.
Louise Liu Joins Antiverse's The Future of Drug Discovery Podcast
Hill Research CEO Dr. Louise Liu joins Antiverse founder Murat Tunaboylu on The Future of Drug Discovery podcast to discuss how Hill Research compresses an FDA submission data package — typically eight programmers, six months, and eight million dollars — down to one person in 90 minutes using generative AI.
Hill Research at the Bay Area Biotech-Pharma Statistics Workshop (BBSW)
The Hill Research team is at the Bay Area Biotech-Pharma Statistics Workshop (BBSW), connecting with biostatisticians and clinical teams on Phase II/III trial design, statistical analysis, and FDA-registration support.
Louise Liu Joins AI Panel at BioNJ BioPartnering Conference
Hill Research CEO Dr. Louise Liu joined the panel 'From Algorithm to Impact — Deploying AI in Real-World Life Sciences' at the BioNJ BioPartnering Conference, discussing what it takes to move AI beyond theory into real-world clinical, operational, and commercial impact.
Hill Research Partners with ZenQMS for Enterprise eQMS
Hill Research is partnering with ZenQMS to run its enterprise electronic quality management system — bringing 21 CFR Part 11 and ISO 27001-compliant document control, training, change control, and audit management to the organization that operates TriClick.
Hill Research Showcases at NJEDA Innovation Evergreen Fund Board Advisory Meeting
Hill Research had the opportunity to showcase its AI infrastructure for clinical trial biometrics at the NJEDA NJ Innovation Evergreen Fund Board Advisory Meeting, joining founders, investors, researchers, and public leaders advancing healthcare and AI innovation in New Jersey.
Hill Research Named to 2026 Innovate100 in New Jersey
Hill Research has been named to the 2026 Innovate100, recognizing New Jersey's top innovation leaders. CEO Dr. Louise Liu is honored in the Life Sciences category alongside leaders from J&J, BMS, Sanofi, Bayer, Rutgers, and Princeton.
Louise Liu Named 2026 Rising Star Entrepreneur by The Serica Initiative
Hill Research CEO Dr. Louise Liu has been named the 2026 Rising Star in Entrepreneurship by The Serica Initiative, recognizing emerging AAPI women leaders shaping the future across entrepreneurship, corporate, and nonprofit sectors.
Five Papers Accepted at ACL, SIGMETRICS, MLSys, and JAMIA in One Week
Hill Research's CTO Dr. Jack Li had four papers accepted at top computer science venues — two at ACL 2026, one at SIGMETRICS 2026, and one at MLSys 2026 — plus a peer-reviewed publication in JAMIA Open describing ClinicalMind, the knowledge graph layer underneath TriClick.
Podcast: Building Trust in Medical AI — Inside Med-ICE
In this episode of AI on the Hill in the Spotlight, Zhiyuan Chen discusses Med-ICE, a multi-agent consensus framework designed to improve the trustworthiness and reliability of medical AI by aligning reasoning across multiple LLM agents.
Hill Research Presents at AAAI 2026 SPARTA Workshop in Singapore
Hill Research's AI team presented three research projects at the SPARTA workshop during AAAI 2026, covering cross-species transfer learning, dynamic gene expression modeling, and reducing LLM hallucinations in clinical AI.
Webinar: FDA Perspectives on AI in Biometrics — Key Pitfalls, Bias Risks, and What Sponsors Must Get Right
This AI on the Hill webinar brings together FDA, biostatistics, and legal experts to examine how AI is evaluated in biometrics today, focusing on practical FDA-facing realities, sponsor mistakes, and accountability requirements.
Hill Research Releases TriClick™ Product Video During JPM Week 2026
Hill Research unveils a product video during JPM Week 2026 introducing TriClick™, the first-in-class agentic AI system designed to generate submission-ready TFLs from raw clinical datasets in 90 minutes.
Managing Biometrics in 2026: What Every Biostats Leader Must Know About AI
Hill Research and AI on the Hill launch 2026 with a live panel discussion bringing together leaders from regulatory, biostatistics, legal, and AI-driven CRO communities to examine how AI is transforming biometrics workflows.
Signal Night: Healthcare AI @ JPM 2026
Hill Research co-hosts Signal Night, an invite-only late-night gathering during JPM Week for founders, investors, and healthcare leaders building and funding AI solutions that are already shipping.
Hill Research Named Finalist at the 2025 Eddies Innovation Showcase
Hill Research is selected as a finalist at the 2025 Eddies Innovation Showcase, hosted by the Mass Innovation Network, presenting its flagship AI platform TriClick™.
Louise Liu Named to Boston Business Journal's Prestigious 2025 "40 Under 40" List
Hill Research CEO Louise Liu, PhD, MBA is recognized among the Boston Business Journal's 2025 '40 Under 40' honorees for her work in AI, biostatistics, and healthcare innovation.
Hill Research CEO Dr. Louise Ruihua Liu Honored as International Business Leader at Witherspoon Gala 2025
Dr. Louise Ruihua Liu receives the International Business Leader Award at the Witherspoon Gala 2025 for her pioneering leadership in AI-driven biostatistics and clinical trial innovation.
Ten Minutes. Thirty-Six Errors. One Big Win: Hill Research at the AI Frontier
At a Boston roundtable, Hill Research CEO Dr. Louise Liu shares how the company's AI platform identified 36 critical errors in a competitor's report within ten minutes, securing a new client relationship.
Hill Research New Preprint: AI-Powered Framework for Cross-Species Single-Cell Insight
Hill Research announces a new preprint on BioRxiv introducing CSLAN, a transfer learning framework that uses mouse scRNA-seq data to identify human trauma-related immune cells with 96.67% accuracy.