Faculty Research Areas

• Data Science & Artificial Intelligence

  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
  Ming Huang, PhD	Associate Professor	Research Areas: Machine Learning and Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models, Data Mining
  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
  Hongfang Liu, PhD	Professor	Artificial Intelligence and Informatics in Healthcare, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
  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
  Xiaoyang Ruan, PhD	Assistant Professor	Predictive modeling, Deep phenotyping, Explainable AI, and Precision Medicine
  Shayan Shams, PhD	Assistant Professor	Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning & Machine Learning, Big Data, High Performance Computing
  Toufeeq Ahmed Syed, PhD	Associate Professor	Precision Education and Innovations, Education Informatics and Technology, Online platforms and Cloud
  Yi-Ching Tang, PhD	Associate Professor	Bioinformatics/Computational Biology, Integrative OMICS for drug discovery, Machine Learning
  Lishan Yu, PhD	Assistant Professor	Data mining and analysis, Machine learning, Biomedical informatics
  GQ Zhang, PhD	Professor	Clinical Informatics, Data Science and Big Data, Ontologies and Metadata Management

  
  
  

  Updated: 9/23/2024

• Clinical & Health Informatics

  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
  Christine Bakos-Block, PhD	Professor	Clinical Research, Mental and Behaviorial Health, and Substance Abuse Disorder
  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	Assistant Professor and Chief Medical Information Officer	Information Systems, Databases, Electronic Health Records
  Susan Fenton, PhD, RHIA, FAHIMA	Professor	Workforce development, data management, ICD-11 implementation, health care associated infections (HAI's)
  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
  Sunyang Fu, PhD	Assistant Professor	Clinical Research Informatics, Clinical and Translational Research, Data Quality and Heterogeneity, Reproducibility, Clinical NLP, and AI Ethics
  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
  Dian Hu, PhD	Assistant Professor	Public Health Program Evaluation, Big Data and Surveillance, Systems Architecture and Health Policy, and Quasi-experimental Design in social media
  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
  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	Associate 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
  Meera G. Subash, MD	Assistant Professor	Clinical Decision Support, EHR Optimization and User-Centered Design, Chronic Disease Management, Patient Reported Outcomes, Telemedicine/Virtual Care, Quality Improvement/Patient Safety, and Informatics Education
  V. Gail Turner, DNP, MBA, NI-BC, PMP	Assistant Professor	Clinical informatics, Integration of Healthcare Practice in Informatics, Clinical Software and Clinical Project Implementation
  Liwei Wang, MD, PhD	Associate Professor	Information extraction and data mining, Cancer informatics, Mental health informatics, Real-world evidence generation, Biomedical lexicon, ontology, and semantics, Computational phenotyping algorithms, and Adverse drug event surveillance
  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

  
  
  

  Updated: 9/23/2024

• Bioinformatics & Systems Medicine

  Bioinformatics and Systems Medicine
  Faculty Members	Title	Research Areas
  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
  Wankun Deng, PhD	Assistant Professor	Machine Learning, Data Mining, and Transcriptomics and Proteomics
  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	Information Extraction, Functional Genomics, Genomic Privacy
  Pora Kim, PhD, MS	Assistant Professor	Bioinformatics, Precision Medicine, Biological Database
  Hui Li, PhD	Assistant Professor	Image processing, Clinical and Translational Research, Clinical Natural Language Processing (NLP)
  Zhao Li, PhD	Assistant Professor	Biomedical data mining, Biomedical NLP, and Big data analytics
  Ardalan Naseri, PhD	Assistant Professor	Algorithms, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, and Population Genetics
  Jinlian Wang, PhD	Assistant Professor	Bioinformatics, Machine learning, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Rare disorders NGS data annotation
  Jianguo Wen, PhD	Assistant Professor	Cancer immunotherapy, Cancer Nucleic Acid Therapy
  Hulin Wu, PhD, MS	Professor	Biostatistics, Computational Biology, Computational Modeling, Bioinformatics Tools
  Ziqian Xie, PhD	Associate Professor	Deep learning, Imaging genetics, Predictive modeling
  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
  Xiaobo Zhou, PhD	Professor	Bioinformatics, systems biology, imaging informatics, clinical informatics

  
  
  

  Updated: 8/22/2024