| Data Science and Artificial Intelligence | ||
| Faculty Members | Title | Research Areas |
| Omer Anjum, PhD | Assistant Professor | Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, AI System Design |
| Licong Cui, PhD | Associate Professor | Ontologies and terminologies, Big data analytics, Neuroinformatics Health information extraction and retrieval |
| Na Hong, PhD | Assistant Professor | Healthcare Data Standards, Medical Analysis, Clinical Decision Support Application |
| Luca Giancardo, PhD | Associate Professor | Medical image/signal processing, Machine Learning, Big Data, translational medicine |
| Xiaoqian Jiang, PhD | Professor | Healthcare privacy, Biomedical data mining, Computational phenotyping |
| Yejin Kim, PhD | Assistant Professor | Data mining, computational phenotyping on the developments of innovative machine learning models |
| Fang Li, PhD | Assistant Professor | Biomedical Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs, Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning and Deep Learning |
| Ardalan Naseri, PhD | Assistant Professor | Algorithms, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics |
| Kalpana Raja PhD, MRSB, CSci | Assistant Professor | Natural Language Processing, Biomedical Text Mining, Machine Learning |
| Laila Rasmy Bekhet, PhD | Assistant Professor | Deep Learning, Predictive Modeling, Biomedical Data Mining |
| Kirk Roberts, PhD, MS | Associate Professor | Natural language processing, question answering, clinical information extraction, spatial information extraction and medical information retrieval |
| Cui Tao, PhD | Professor | Ontology Generation, Conceptual Modeling, Ontology services |
| Hulin Wu, PhD, MS | Professor | Biostatistics, Computational Biology, Computational Modeling |
| Stephen Wu, PhD | Associate Professor | Natural language processing, information retrieval, temporal data processing |
| GQ Zhang, PhD | Professor | Clinical Informatics, Data Science and Big Data, Ontologies and Metadata Management |
| Kai Zhang, PhD | Assistant Professor | Predictive Modeling, Machine Learning for Healthcare, Fairness in Machine Learning |
| Degui Zhi, PhD, MS | Professor | Bioinformatics, Statistical Genetics, Deep Learning |
| Clinical and Health Informatics | ||
| Faculty Members | Title | Research Areas |
| Elmer Bernstam, MD, MSE | Professor | Clinical practice guideline classification, information retrieval, consumer informatics, clinical decision support, CTSA director of the biomedical informatics component |
| Juliana J. Brixey, RN, MPH, PhD | Associate Professor | Patient safety, interruptions in workflow, social media in distance education |
| Tiffany Champagne-Langabeer, PhD | Associate Professor | Health information management, policies and health information exchange, modifying behaviors, and collecting data for outcomes research |
| Rigoberto I. Delgado, PhD, MBA | Associate Professor | Applied Population Health Analytics, Cost-effectiveness Methods, Health Services Research |
| Babtope Fatuyi, MD | Assistant Professor and Chief Medical Information Officer | Information Systems, Databases, Electronic Health Records |
| Susan Fenton, PhD, RHIA, FAHIMA | Associate Professor | Workforce development, data management, ICD-11 implementation, health care associated infections (HAI's) |
| Julie C. Forcum, Pharm D, MHA | Assistant Professor | Medication Safety, Medication Management, Quality |
| Amy Franklin, PhD | Associate Professor | Psycho-linguistics, conversational negotiation and deception, reduction of medical errors |
| Lex Frieden, MA, LLD (hon) | Professor | Disability informatics; rehabilitation technology and robotics; health care access, effectiveness and costs; independent living; community-based service systems; disability rights; consumer empowerment |
| Yang Gong, MD, PhD | Associate Professor | Clinical informatics, human factors, patient safety, human-centered design in health care, medical incident reporting and management systems, health information technology supporting aging-in-place |
| Jonathan Ishee, JD, MPH, MS, LLM | Assistant Professor | Health policy, legal and ethical issues surrounding health informatics, health information exchange, patient safety, payment reform, privacy and security issues related to health informatics, unintended consequences of rapid health information technology adoption and use, medical identity theft, fraud and abuse issues |
| Constance Johnson, PhD, MS, RN, FAAN | Professor | Human-computer interaction, consumer health informatics, games for health, data visualization and health decision-making |
| Todd Johnson, PhD | Professor | Medical device usability and safety, patient safety and quality, human factors engineering, ontologies and knowledge sharing, information visualization, clinical data warehousing |
| Peter Killoran, MS, MD | Associate Professor | Impact of Health IT on clinical decision making, integrating visualization techniques into EMRs, gathering and analyzing anesthesia EMR data |
| James Langabeer, PhD, MBA, FHIMSS | Professor | Clinical systems of care, cardiovascular quality and analytics, and health information exchange |
| Karima Lalani, PhD, MBA, FACHE, RHIA | Assistant Professor | Healthcare Management and Policy, Workforce Development, Clinical Systems of Care |
| James Langabeer, II, PhD, MBA | Professor | Clinical Systems of Care, Cardiovascular Quality and Analytics, Health Information Exchange |
| Robert E. Murphy, MD | Associate Professor | Clinical decision support, physician health IT adoption, clinical system implementations and quality and patient safety |
| Sahiti Myneni, PhD, MSE | Associate Professor | Consumer informatics, Health-related social media analytics, Data-driven digital health technologies, Idea to product translation (mHealth device development and testing) |
| Deevakar Rogith, MBBS, PhD | Assistant Professor | Healthcare interface design, EHR development and usability, mobile health, Big Data analytics for patients and clinical intelligence and clinical informatics |
| Angela Ross, DNP, MPH, PMP, PHCNS-BC | Assistant Professor | Project management, performance improvement, system implementation, program and project evaluation, policy development, teamwork, and workflow analysis |
| Debora Simmons, PhD, RN, CCNS, FAAN | Assistant Professor | Advanced practice nurse in critical and acute care, technology and complex patient care systems, healthcare quality and safety as an educator, leader, researcher and patient advocate |
| Dean Sittig, PhD | Professor | Design and development of new features and functions within Clinical Information Systems (CISs), implementation methods and strategies for CISs, evaluation and monitoring of existing CIS implementations |
| Kimberly A. Smith, PhD, MT(ASCP) | Assistant Professor | Biomedical informatics, veterinary informatics, workforce development, and laboratory and pathology informatics |
| Andrea Yatsco, PhD, CADC, LCDC | Assistant Professor | Public Health and Substance Use Disorders, Systematic Public Health Responses, Behavioral Informatics |
| Jiajie Zhang, PhD | Professor | Human-centered computing, medical errors, information display and visualization, cognitive science, medical decision making |
| Bioinformatics and Systems Medicine | ||
| Faculty Members | Title | Research Areas |
| Han Chen, PhD | Associate Professor | Correlated data analysis, high-dimensional sparse data analysis, statistical computing, meta-analysis, survival analysis, gene-environment interaction, genetic epidemiology, complex heritable human diseases |
| Xiangning Chen, PhD, MS | Professor | Genetics and Genomics Study of Psychiatric Disorders, Biomarker Discovery, Disease Risk-Modeling, Evaluation and Prediction |
| Yulin Dai, PhD | Assistant Professor | Tissue/Cell type specificity in complex disease, Multi-Omics data integration |
| Luca Giancardo, PhD | Associate Professor | Medical Image/Signal Processing, Machine Learning, Big Data, Translational Medicine |
| Assaf Gottlieb, PhD | Assistant Professor | Pharmacogenomics, Machine Learning, Systems Biology Medicine, Causal inference from observational data |
| Arif Harmanci, PhD, MS | Assistant Professor | Bioinformatics, functional genomics, next generation sequencing data analysis, genomic privacy |
| Sayed-Rzgar Hosseini, PhD | Assistant Professor | Computational Systems Biology, Precision Cancer Medicine, Statistical Bioinformatics |
| Pora Kim, PhD, MS | Assistant Professor | Bioinformatics, Precision Medicine, Biological Database |
| Jianguo Wen, PhD | Assistant Professor | Cancer immunotherapy, Cancer Nucleic Acid Therapy |
| Lei You, PhD | Assistant Professor | Image Processing, Deep Learning, Human-Machine Interaction |
| Guangming Zhang, PhD | Assistant Professor | Medical Image Informatics, Biomechanical Analysis, Machine Learning |
| Zhongming Zhao, PhD, MS | Professor | Bioinformatics, next generation sequencing in precision medicine, integrative genomics and systems biology approaches to complex disease studies, translational bioinformatics, genomic studies of mental disorders, pharmacogenomics and drug repositioning |
| W. Jim Zheng, PhD | Professor | Bioinformatics, biological data mining and networks, genomics, systems biology, biomedical ontology and knowledge representation |
| Degui Zhi, PhD, MS | Professor | Statistical genetics, bioinformatics, next-generation sequencing, haplotype phasing and imputation, genomic big data, machine learning and genetics epidemiology |
| Xiaobo Zhou, PhD | Professor | Bioinformatics, systems biology, imaging informatics, clinical informatics |
| Data Science and Artificial Intelligence | ||
| Faculty Members | Title | Research Areas |
| Omer Anjum, PhD | Assistant Professor | Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, AI System Design |
| Licong Cui, PhD | Associate Professor | Ontologies and terminologies, Big data analytics, Neuroinformatics Health information extraction and retrieval |
| Na Hong, PhD | Assistant Professor | Healthcare Data Standards, Medical Analysis, Clinical Decision Support Application |
| Luca Giancardo, PhD | Associate Professor | Medical image/signal processing, Machine Learning, Big Data, translational medicine |
| Xiaoqian Jiang, PhD | Professor | Healthcare privacy, Biomedical data mining, Computational phenotyping |
| Yejin Kim, PhD | Assistant Professor | Data mining, computational phenotyping on the developments of innovative machine learning models |
| Fang Li, PhD | Assistant Professor | Biomedical Ontologies and Knowledge Graphs, Big Data Analytics, Machine Learning and Deep Learning |
| Ardalan Naseri, PhD | Assistant Professor | Algorithms, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics |
| Kalpana Raja PhD, MRSB, CSci | Assistant Professor | Natural Language Processing, Biomedical Text Mining, Machine Learning |
| Laila Rasmy Bekhet, PhD | Assistant Professor | Deep Learning, Predictive Modeling, Biomedical Data Mining |
| Kirk Roberts, PhD, MS | Associate Professor | Natural language processing, question answering, clinical information extraction, spatial information extraction and medical information retrieval |
| Cui Tao, PhD | Professor | Ontology Generation, Conceptual Modeling, Ontology services |
| Hulin Wu, PhD, MS | Professor | Biostatistics, Computational Biology, Computational Modeling |
| Stephen Wu, PhD | Associate Professor | Natural language processing, information retrieval, temporal data processing |
| GQ Zhang, PhD | Professor | Clinical Informatics, Data Science and Big Data, Ontologies and Metadata Management |
| Kai Zhang, PhD | Assistant Professor | Predictive Modeling, Machine Learning for Healthcare, Fairness in Machine Learning |
| Degui Zhi, PhD, MS | Professor | Bioinformatics, Statistical Genetics, Deep Learning |
| Clinical and Health Informatics | ||
| Faculty Members | Title | Research Areas |
| Elmer Bernstam, MD, MSE | Professor | Clinical practice guideline classification, information retrieval, consumer informatics, clinical decision support, CTSA director of the biomedical informatics component |
| Juliana J. Brixey, RN, MPH, PhD | Associate Professor | Patient safety, interruptions in workflow, social media in distance education |
| Tiffany Champagne-Langabeer, PhD | Associate Professor | Health information management, policies and health information exchange, modifying behaviors, and collecting data for outcomes research |
| Rigoberto I. Delgado, PhD, MBA | Associate Professor | Applied Population Health Analytics, Cost-effectiveness Methods, Health Services Research |
| Babtope Fatuyi, MD | Assistant Professor and Chief Medical Information Officer | Information Systems, Databases, Electronic Health Records |
| Susan Fenton, PhD, RHIA, FAHIMA | Associate Professor | Workforce development, data management, ICD-11 implementation, health care associated infections (HAI's) |
| Julie C. Forcum, Pharm D, MHA | Assistant Professor | Medication Safety, Medication Management, Quality |
| Amy Franklin, PhD | Associate Professor | Psycho-linguistics, conversational negotiation and deception, reduction of medical errors |
| Lex Frieden, MA, LLD (hon) | Professor | Disability informatics; rehabilitation technology and robotics; health care access, effectiveness and costs; independent living; community-based service systems; disability rights; consumer empowerment |
| Yang Gong, MD, PhD | Associate Professor | Clinical informatics, human factors, patient safety, human-centered design in health care, medical incident reporting and management systems, health information technology supporting aging-in-place |
| Jonathan Ishee, JD, MPH, MS, LLM | Assistant Professor | Health policy, legal and ethical issues surrounding health informatics, health information exchange, patient safety, payment reform, privacy and security issues related to health informatics, unintended consequences of rapid health information technology adoption and use, medical identity theft, fraud and abuse issues |
| Constance Johnson, PhD, MS, RN, FAAN | Professor | Human-computer interaction, consumer health informatics, games for health, data visualization and health decision-making |
| Todd Johnson, PhD | Professor | Medical device usability and safety, patient safety and quality, human factors engineering, ontologies and knowledge sharing, information visualization, clinical data warehousing |
| Peter Killoran, MS, MD | Associate Professor | Impact of Health IT on clinical decision making, integrating visualization techniques into EMRs, gathering and analyzing anesthesia EMR data |
| James Langabeer, PhD, MBA, FHIMSS | Professor | Clinical systems of care, cardiovascular quality and analytics, and health information exchange |
| Karima Lalani, PhD, MBA, FACHE, RHIA | Assistant Professor | Healthcare Management and Policy, Workforce Development, Clinical Systems of Care |
| James Langabeer, II, PhD, MBA | Professor | Clinical Systems of Care, Cardiovascular Quality and Analytics, Health Information Exchange |
| Robert E. Murphy, MD | Associate Professor | Clinical decision support, physician health IT adoption, clinical system implementations and quality and patient safety |
| Sahiti Myneni, PhD, MSE | Associate Professor | Consumer informatics, Health-related social media analytics, Data-driven digital health technologies, Idea to product translation (mHealth device development and testing) |
| Deevakar Rogith, MBBS, PhD | Assistant Professor | Healthcare interface design, EHR development and usability, mobile health, Big Data analytics for patients and clinical intelligence and clinical informatics |
| Angela Ross, DNP, MPH, PMP, PHCNS-BC | Assistant Professor | Project management, performance improvement, system implementation, program and project evaluation, policy development, teamwork, and workflow analysis |
| Debora Simmons, PhD, RN, CCNS, FAAN | Assistant Professor | Advanced practice nurse in critical and acute care, technology and complex patient care systems, healthcare quality and safety as an educator, leader, researcher and patient advocate |
| Dean Sittig, PhD | Professor | Design and development of new features and functions within Clinical Information Systems (CISs), implementation methods and strategies for CISs, evaluation and monitoring of existing CIS implementations |
| Kimberly A. Smith, PhD, MT(ASCP) | Assistant Professor | Biomedical informatics, veterinary informatics, workforce development, and laboratory and pathology informatics |
| Andrea Yatsco, PhD, CADC, LCDC | Assistant Professor | Public Health and Substance Use Disorders, Systematic Public Health Responses, Behavioral Informatics |
| Jiajie Zhang, PhD | Professor | Human-centered computing, medical errors, information display and visualization, cognitive science, medical decision making |
| Bioinformatics and Systems Medicine | ||
| Faculty Members | Title | Research Areas |
| Han Chen, PhD | Associate Professor | Correlated data analysis, high-dimensional sparse data analysis, statistical computing, meta-analysis, survival analysis, gene-environment interaction, genetic epidemiology, complex heritable human diseases |
| Xiangning Chen, PhD, MS | Professor | Genetics and Genomics Study of Psychiatric Disorders, Biomarker Discovery, Disease Risk-Modeling, Evaluation and Prediction |
| Yulin Dai, PhD | Assistant Professor | Tissue/Cell type specificity in complex disease, Multi-Omics data integration |
| Luca Giancardo, PhD | Associate Professor | Medical Image/Signal Processing, Machine Learning, Big Data, Translational Medicine |
| Assaf Gottlieb, PhD | Assistant Professor | Pharmacogenomics, Machine Learning, Systems Biology Medicine, Causal inference from observational data |
| Arif Harmanci, PhD, MS | Assistant Professor | Bioinformatics, functional genomics, next generation sequencing data analysis, genomic privacy |
| Sayed-Rzgar Hosseini, PhD | Assistant Professor | Computational Systems Biology, Precision Cancer Medicine, Statistical Bioinformatics |
| Pora Kim, PhD, MS | Assistant Professor | Bioinformatics, Precision Medicine, Biological Database |
| Jianguo Wen, PhD | Assistant Professor | Cancer immunotherapy, Cancer Nucleic Acid Therapy |
| Lei You, PhD | Assistant Professor | Image Processing, Deep Learning, Human-Machine Interaction |
| Guangming Zhang, PhD | Assistant Professor | Medical Image Informatics, Biomechanical Analysis, Machine Learning |
| Zhongming Zhao, PhD, MS | Professor | Bioinformatics, next generation sequencing in precision medicine, integrative genomics and systems biology approaches to complex disease studies, translational bioinformatics, genomic studies of mental disorders, pharmacogenomics and drug repositioning |
| W. Jim Zheng, PhD | Professor | Bioinformatics, biological data mining and networks, genomics, systems biology, biomedical ontology and knowledge representation |
| Degui Zhi, PhD, MS | Professor | Statistical genetics, bioinformatics, next-generation sequencing, haplotype phasing and imputation, genomic big data, machine learning and genetics epidemiology |
| Xiaobo Zhou, PhD | Professor | Bioinformatics, systems biology, imaging informatics, clinical informatics |