Sorted by year and author.
All SBMI PhD dissertations can be requested from the Texas Medical Center Library. Full text of dissertations are available online for open access in the Digital Commons of the TMC Library. Note that recent dissertations will not be immediately available as the online collection is updated and indexed.
Morgan Foreman (2025)
A Culturally-Tailored Framework for Improving Patient Activation within a Digital Solution: Supporting Black Pregnant Women with Hypertensive Disorders
PhD thesis, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.
Zehan Li, MS (2025)
MINDFUL: Machine Intelligence Towards Neuropsychiatric Data For Unified Learning
PhD thesis, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.
Yifang Dang, MS (2025)
Standardizing Social Determinants of Health Factors from Heterogenous Sources to Improve Data FAIRness
PhD thesis, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.
Xubing Hao (2025)
Computational Methods for Enhancing the Quality and Interoperability of Biomedical Terminologies
PhD thesis, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.
Jianping He, MS (2025)
Leveraging and Advancing the Foundation Models for Clinical Trajectory Analysis Based on Electronic Health Records Data
PhD thesis, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.
Yan Hu, MRes (2025)
Harnessing Knowledge and Data for Clinical Information Extraction in the Era of Large Language Models
PhD thesis, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.
Sheikh Muhammad Saiful Islam, MS (2025)
Advancing Genetic Association Discovery in Brain MRI using Unsupervised and Self-supervised Deep Learning: Exploring Learning Dynamics, Region-Specific Features, and Spatially Resolved Representations
PhD thesis, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.
Kohong Lin, MS (2025)
Accelerating Drug Repurposing and Target Discovery using Deep Learning
PhD thesis, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.
Yaobin Ling, MS (2025)
Leveraging Observational and RCT Data for Understanding Interventions’ efficacy: Applications in Progressive and Acute Neurological Diseases
PhD thesis, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.
Bingyu Mao, MA (2025)
Precision Drug Dosing and Disease Risk Prediction: Advanced Deep Learning Artificial Intelligence Approaches for Precision Medicine Using Structured Electronic Health Records Data
PhD thesis, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.
Kaichen Tang, MS (2025)
Computer-Aided Integrated Rehabilitation for Post-Stroke Patients Using Deep Learning Techniques
PhD thesis, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.
Jeritt Thayer (2024)
Improving Distributed Health Information Technology Integration through Enriched Context in Sociotechnical System Components
PhD thesis, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.
Tongtong Huang (2024)
Designing Recommendation Systems for Identification and Reduction of Unnecessary Blood Tests
PhD thesis, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.
Poonam Desai (2024)
Multi-omic single-cell integration for understanding T cell responses in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
PhD thesis, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.
Yan Chu (2024)
Radiation-Induced Lymphopenia: Understanding, Predictive Modelling and Developing Photon and Proton-Based Mitigation Strategies
PhD thesis, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.
Yuntao Yang (2024)
Decoding Disease Mechanisms: Unraveling Large-Scale Biological Data for Novel Therapeutic Target Discovery
PhD thesis, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.
Xu Zuo (2024)
An Informatics Framework for Representing, Detecting, and Measuring Citations of Biomedical Datasets
PhD thesis, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.
Yanfei Wang, MS (2023)
Advancing Precision Medicine: Unveiling Disease Trajectories, Decoding Biomarkers, and Tailoring Individual Treatments
PhD thesis, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.
Tavleen Kaur Ranjit Singh, MS (2023)
Context-aware Content-sensitive Modeling of Online Peer Interactions in Social Media: Towards Personalized Digital Experiences for Behavior Change and Health Promotion
PhD thesis, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.
Sarah May, BS, MS, MPH (2023)
Automating Construction of Fair Models for HIV Risk Prediction Using Neighborhood Data
PhD thesis, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.
Astrid Manuel, BSc (2023)
Translational Bioinformatics Approaches for Decoding Mechanisms and Developing Drug Repositioning Strategies in Multiple Sclerosis
PhD thesis, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.
Bingrui Li, BS (2023)
Unveiling the Hidden Landscape of Tumors: Developing Cutting-Edge Machine Learning Approaches to Determine the Compositions of Cells and Exosomes
PhD thesis, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.
Alexandra Zingg, MPH, MS (2023)
Leveraging Digital Technologies for Management of Peripartum Depression to Mitigate Health Disparities
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Sarvesh Soni, B.Tech., MS (2023)
Question Answering from Electronic Health Records
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Zhao Li, M.Eng. (2023)
Cancer Risk Prediction and Interpretation from Electronic Health Records
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Fangfang Yan, MS (2022)
Informatics Approaches for Capturing Dynamic Gene Expression and Regulation
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Su Wang, MBE (2022)
Development of Enabling Technologies for Genomic Analysis
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Jingqi Wang, MS (2022)
Disease Concept Normalization for Clinical Documents Using Deep Learning and Knowledge Graphs
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Nina Smith, MPH (2022)
Proposing a Conceptual Model of the Unintended Consequences of Health Information Technology Policy
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Surabhi Datta, BE, MS (2022)
Spatial Information Extraction from Radiology Reports
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Yi-Ching Tang, MS (2022)
Utilizing Molecular Pathways to Provide Generalizable, Explainable, and Translatable Models from Cancer Drug Response Prediction
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Carlos Artuto Perez Aldana, MS (2022)
Social Network Analysis of Online Support Communities for Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Roni Matin, MSc (2022).
Identifying Risk Factors for Anchoring Bias during Emergency Department Transitions of Care
PhD thesis, The UTHealth Houston School of Biomedical Informatics
Xinyuan Zhang, MS (2022).
Computer-Aided Diagnosis for Melanoma using Ontology and Deep Learning Approaches
PhD thesis, The UTHealth Houston School of Biomedical Informatics
Laila Rasmy Gindy Bekhet, MS (2021).
Secondary use of Structured Electronic Health Records Data: From Observational Studies to Deep Learning-based Predictive Modeling
PhD thesis, The UTHealth Houston School of Biomedical Informatics
Yuqi Si, MS (2021).
Enhance Representation Learning of Clinical Narrative with Neural Networks for Clinical Predictive Modeling
PhD thesis, The UTHealth Houston School of Biomedical Informatics
Xiao Dong, MD, MS (2021).
Standardizing New Diagnostic Tests to Facilitate Rapid Responses to The Covid-19 Pandemic
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Maryam Y. Garza, MPH, MMCi (2020).
Determining the Utility of HL7® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR®) Standards in Supporting EHR and EDC-agnostic eSource Implementations for Clinical Research
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Qiang Wei, MS (2020).
Table-to-Text: Generating Descriptive Text for Scientific Tables from Randomized Controlled Trials
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Muhammad Amith, MS (2019).
Design and Architecture of an Ontology-driven Dialogue System for HPV Vaccine Counseling
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Jingcheng Du, BS (2019).
VaxInsight: an artificial intelligence system to access large-scale public perceptions of vaccination from social media
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Kang Lin Hsieh, MS (2019).
Utilizing Temporal Information in The EHR for Developing a Novel Continuous Prediction Model
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Vickie Nguyen, MA, MS (2019).
TURF for Teams: Considering Both the Team and I in the Work-Centered Design of Systems
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Safa Fathiamini, MD, MS (2018).
Comparing Attributional and Relational Similarity as a Means to Identify Clinically Relevant Drug-gene Relationships
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Jun Li, MS (2018).
Ontology-Based Clinical Information Extraction Using SNOMED CT
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Scott Malec, MLIS, MSIT (2018).
Using the Literature to Identify Confounders
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Melissa P. Resnick, MLS (2018).
Characterizing the Information Needs of Rural Healthcare Practitioners with Language Agnostic Automated Text Analysis
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Barbara Berkovich, MA (2017).
Impact of Terminology Mapping on Population Health Cohorts
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Francis Manion (2017).
A Life Cycle Approach to the Development and Validation of an Ontology of the U.S. Common Rule (45 C.F.R. § 46)
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Scott Sittig, MHI, RHIA (2017).
Integrating Behavioral Trigger Messages into a mHealth System Design for Chronic Disease Management
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Zhiguo Yu, MS (2017).
Understanding PubMed Search Results using Topic Models and Interactive Information Visualization
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Min Jiang, MS (2017).
Improving Syntactic Parsing of Clinical Text Using Domain Knowledge
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Chen Liang, MS (2017).
Understanding Patient Safety Reports
via Multi-label Text Classification and Semantic Representation
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Jose Franck Diaz, MS (2016).
DataGauge: A Model-Driven Framework for Systematically Assessing the Quality of Clinical Data for Secondary Use
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
J. Caleb Goodwin, MS, BS (2015).
Implications of computational cognitive models for information retrieval
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Deevakar Rogith, MBBS (2015).
Process Mining of Medication Revisions in Electronic Health Records
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Claire Loe, BA, MPH (2015).
Designing for Practice Development in a Social Learning System:
Communicating Norms and Vicarious Experience
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Jianbo Lei, MD, MS, MA (2014).
Named Entity Recognition in Chinese Clinical Text
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Ning Shang, MS (2014).
Integrating Domain Knowledge to Improve Signal Detection from Electronic Health Records for Pharmacovigilance
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Sahiti Myneni, MSE (2013).
Attributing Meaning to Online Social Network Analysis for Tailored Socio-Behavioral Support Systems
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Sina Madani, MD, MS (2013).
Development and Evaluation of an Ontology-Based Quality Metrics Extraction System
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Ashish Joshi, MD, MPH (2012).
The SanaViz: Human Centered Geovisualization to Facilitate Visual Exploration of Public Health Data
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Phatak, S. S., MS (2012).
Advanced Protein Modeling Method: Benchmarking and Applications in Computer-Aided Drug Discovery
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Srinivasan, A., MS (2012).
A Method for representing contextualized Information (MeRCI) To Improve Situational Awareness Among Electronic Message Brokering System Dashboard Users
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Rusu, M., Meng, MS (2011).
Modeling Techniques for the High-Resolution Interpretation of Cryo-Electron Microscopy Reconstructions
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
McGuire, M., BS, MS (2011).
Pathway Semantics: An Algebraic Data Driven Algorithm to Generate Hypotheses about Molecular Patterns Underlying Disease Progression
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Maffei, R., BS, MS(2011).
Understanding and Characterizing Shared Decision-Making and Behavioral Intent in Medical Uncertainty
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Kennedy, C., MD, MS (2010).
Time Series Analysis as Input for Predictive Modeling: Predicting Cardiac Arrest in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Zhu, M., MD, MS(2010).
Formalizing a Conceptual Framework of Work Domain Knowledge
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Nahm, Meredith, MS (2010).
Data Accuracy in Medical Record Abstraction
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.
Smith, Kimberly, PhD (2010).
The Effect of Proximity, Explicitness, and Representation of Basic Science Information on Student Clinical Program-Solving
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston.
Mirhaji, Parsa, MD (2009).
Biomedical Language Understanding and Extraction: A Minimal Syntactic, Semantic Method
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston.
Florez-Arango, J., MD, MS (2009).
Workload and Performance Factors Associated with Multimedia Jobs Aids for Community Health Workers
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston.
McLane, S., MS, MBA, RN-BC (2009).
Understanding Nurse Created Cognitive Artifacts:Personally-Created-Cognitive-Artifacts as External Representations of Distributed Cognition
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston.
Esquivel, A., MD, MS (2008).
Characterizing, Assessing, and Improving Healthcare Referral Communication
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences.
Herskovic, J.R., MD, MS (2008).
Unsupervised Indexing Of Medline Articles Through Graph-Based Ranking
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences.
Rankin, J., BA, MHA, MS, MPH, PHD (2008).
The Multiple Location Time Weighted Index: Using Patient Activity Spaces to Calculate Primary Care Service Areas
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston.
Chen, J., DDS, MS, PhD, (2007).
Developing a Method for Identifying and Reducing Functional Discrepancies of Information Systems
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston.
Bhavanne, R., MS (2006).
Nanoparticle Agglomerates for Pulmonary Drug Delivery
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston.
Brixey, J.J., RN, PhD (2006).
Understanding Interruptions in Healthcare: Developing a Model
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston.
Gong, Y., MD, MS (2006).
The Interaction Between Internal and External Information on Relational Data Search
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston.
Walji, M.F., MS (2006).
Does the Message Matter? Enhancing Patient Adherence through Persuasive Messages
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston.
Michea, Y.F., MD, MS, PhD, (2004).
Cognitive Impact of Interactive Multimedia
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston.
Johnson, C.M., RN, PhD (2003).
Effects of Information Display on the Construction of Clinical Mental Models
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences
at Houston.
Richesson, R.L., MPH, PhD (2003).
A Process for Achieving Comparable Data from Heterogeneous Databases
PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston.