The AI Next Awards & Conference 2026 proudly recognized Dr. Luyuan Fang, CEO, President, and Founder of Curative AI, Inc., with the prestigious Excellence in AI & Technology Industry – Leaders: AI-Native Healthcare Leadership Award. This honor celebrates her extraordinary contributions to artificial intelligence, healthcare innovation, and enterprise-scale technology transformation.
Dr. Fang is widely recognized as one of the foremost pioneers driving the convergence of AI and healthcare. As the founder of Curative AI, she is building an AI-native operating layer designed to transform healthcare revenue cycle management and clinical operations. Under her leadership, Curative AI achieved a remarkable milestone by becoming cash-flow positive within its first year of operation without raising external capital—an achievement rarely seen among early-stage AI companies.
A serial entrepreneur and visionary technology executive, Dr. Fang has spent her career building and scaling AI organizations capable of delivering real-world impact at massive scale. Her leadership journey spans healthcare, cloud computing, travel technology, telecommunications, and enterprise software, consistently placing her at the forefront of technological innovation.
Before founding Curative AI, Dr. Fang served as Chief AI Officer at Change Healthcare, one of the largest healthcare technology organizations in the United States. Supporting a network that processes approximately half of all U.S. healthcare claims, she led the rapid development and deployment of AI-powered revenue cycle management solutions. Her work resulted in transformative operational efficiencies, including a denial management platform delivered in just five months and the development of InterQual AutoReview™, which reduced operational costs by 75%.
Her impact extends beyond healthcare. As Chief AI and Data Officer at Prescryptive Health, Dr. Fang deployed AI solutions across a nationwide pharmacy network serving more than 50,000 pharmacies and millions of consumers. Her innovative approach to AI-driven pricing fundamentally transformed traditional healthcare pricing models, delivering significant value for both businesses and patients.
In the travel industry, Dr. Fang founded and led Expedia Group AI Labs, supporting all 14 Expedia brands and over one billion search transactions every day. There, she pioneered the industry's first transformer-based AI travel chatbot, automating more than 90% of customer service inquiries and fulfillment tasks while setting a new benchmark for AI-powered customer experiences.
Her distinguished career also includes senior leadership and technical roles at Microsoft Azure, eBay, Cisco Systems, and AT&T, where she helped develop foundational networking technologies that continue to power modern internet infrastructure. A prolific innovator, Dr. Fang holds 10 U.S. patents in distributed systems, networking, cloud computing, and software-defined infrastructure.
Beyond her technical accomplishments, Dr. Fang is a passionate advocate for responsible AI innovation and the modernization of healthcare systems. Through her leadership, she continues to demonstrate how artificial intelligence can reduce administrative burdens, improve healthcare accessibility, and create more efficient and patient-centric healthcare ecosystems.
Her achievements have earned widespread recognition, including the 2025 Asian American Entrepreneurial Achievement Award and selection as an Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2026 Mountain West Finalist by Ernst & Young. These honors reflect her exceptional leadership, entrepreneurial vision, and lasting contributions to the advancement of AI.
The AI-Native Healthcare Leadership Award recognizes leaders who are redefining healthcare through artificial intelligence and setting new standards for innovation, scalability, and impact. Dr. Fang's groundbreaking work exemplifies these qualities and serves as an inspiration for the next generation of technology and healthcare leaders.
The AI Next Awards & Conference proudly congratulates Dr. Luyuan Fang on this well-deserved recognition and celebrates her continued efforts to shape the future of healthcare through AI-driven innovation.