SBMI Faculty Research Areas

• Data Science & Artificial Intelligence

  Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
  Faculty Members	Title	Research Areas
  Muhammad Amith, PhD	Assistant Professor	Consumer health ontologies, natural language processing, public health informatics, network analysis, mHealth
  Licong Cui, PhD	Assistant Professor	Ontologies and terminologies, Big data analytics, Neuroinformatics Health information extraction and retrieval
  Luca Giancardo, PhD	Assistant Professor	Medical image/signal processing, Machine Learning, Big Data, translational medicine
  Xiaoqian Jiang, PhD	教授	Healthcare privacy, Biomedical data mining, Computational phenotyping
  Yejin Kim, PhD	Assistant Professor	Data mining, computational phenotyping on the developments of innovative machine learning models
  Kirk Roberts, PhD, MS	Associate Professor	Natural language processing, question answering, clinical information extraction, spatial information extraction and medical information retrieval
  Cui Tao, PhD	教授	Applying semantic web and ontology technologies to clinical and biomedical applications, ontology generation and conceptual modeling, common terminology and ontology services, information extraction and integration
  Stephen Wu, PhD	Associate Professor	Natural language processing, information retrieval, temporal data processing
  Hua Xu, PhD	教授	Natural language processing, biomedical literature mining, health care data mining, named entity recognition, syntactic & semantic parsing, active learning, medication information extraction, informatics approaches to pharmacogenomics, drug-ADE detection from EHRs

  
  

  
  

• Clinical & Health Informatics

  Clinical and Health Informatics
  Faculty Members	Title	Research Areas
  Elmer Bernstam, MD, MSE	教授	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
  Susan Fenton, PhD, RHIA, FAHIMA	Associate Professor	Workforce development, data management, ICD-11 implementation, health care associated infections (HAI's)
  Amy Franklin, PhD	Associate Professor	Psycho-linguistics,会话negotiation and deception, reduction of medical errors
  Lex Frieden, MA, LLD (hon)	教授	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	surroundin卫生政策、法律和道德问题g 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	教授	Human-computer interaction, consumer health informatics, games for health, data visualization and health decision-making
  Todd Johnson, PhD	教授	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	Assistant 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	教授	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	Assistant 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	教授	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
  Jiajie Zhang, PhD	教授	Human-centered computing, medical errors, information display and visualization, cognitive science, medical decision making

  
  

  
  

• Bioinformatics & Systems Medicine

  Bioinformatics and Systems Medicine
  Faculty Members	Title	Research Areas
  Han Chen, PhD	Assistant Professor	Correlated data analysis, high-dimensional sparse data analysis, statistical computing, meta-analysis, survival analysis, gene-environment interaction, genetic epidemiology, complex heritable human diseases
  Yulin Dai, PhD	Assistant Professor	Tissue/Cell type specificity in complex disease, Multi-Omics data integration
  Arif Harmanci, PhD, MS	Assistant Professor	Bioinformatics, functional genomics, next generation sequencing data analysis, genomic privacy
  Pora Kim, PhD, MS	Assistant Professor	Bioinformatics, Precision Medicine, Biological Database
  Guangsheng Pei, PhD	Faculty Associate	Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Machine Learning
  Hulin Wu, PhD, MS	教授	Biostatistics, computational biology, computational modeling and bioinformatics tools
  Weiling Zhao, PhD	Associate Professor	Bioinformatics, molecular biology, cellular biology and cancer biology
  Guangming Zhang, PhD	Assistant Professor	Medical Image Informatics, Biomechanical Analysis, Machine Learning
  Zhongming Zhao, PhD, MS	教授	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	教授	Bioinformatics, biological data mining & networks, genomics, systems biology, biomedical ontology and knowledge representation
  Degui Zhi, PhD, MS	Associate Professor	Statistical genetics, bioinformatics, next-generation sequencing, haplotype phasing and imputation, genomic big data, machine learning and genetics epidemiology
  Xiaobo Zhou, PhD	教授	Bioinformatics, systems biology, imaging informatics, clinical informatics