University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Barhorst, Alan A., PhD., PE, FASME
Professor, Alumni Association/LEQSF Professor, Department Head Nonlinear Dynamics and Robotics Lab
Expertise: Biomechanics, healthcare engineering, mechatronics, micro-electro-mechanical systems, multi-body electrodynamics, robotics, signal processing.
Bhupatiraju, Ravi Teja, MBBS, PhD
Health Informatics Research Scientist, Center for Applied AI
Expertise: Clinical decision-making using LLMs, Biomedical information retrieval, clinical education standards, and clinical cognition.
Chaudhry, Beenish Moalla, PhD
Associate Professor
School of Computing and Informatics
Expertise: Human-computer interaction, health informatics, mobile computing, health data analytics.
Chen, Li, PhD.
Associate Professor
School of Computing and Informatics
Expertise: Federated computing, big data analytics, machine learning systems, resource allocation, cloud computing.
Chu, Henry, PhD
Executive Director, Informatics Research Institute;
Professor, School of Computing and Informatics
Expertise: Machine learning and Computer vision (Medical imaging), Clinical Trials, Pattern recognition.
Faisal, Tanvir, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering
Expertise: Biomechanics, structures, image-based computational biomechanics, mechanics of 3D printed cellular structures.
Hei, Xiali (Sharon), PhD
Associate Professor
Alfred and Helen M. Lamson Endowed Professor
School of Computing and Informatics
Expertise: AI security and privacy, Secure real-time wireless medical devices, Cyber-physical system security, security of wireless medical devices, biometrics security, device security, and network forensics.
Hosseini, Majid, PhD
Artificial Intelligence Research Scientist
Expertise: Multimodal learning, human-centric intelligent systems (multimodal learning, real-world implementation science, federated learning, telehealth.
Professor of Psychology Chair, Institutional Review Board SLEMCO/LEQSF Regents Professor in Liberal Arts Sponsored Collaborator, Pediatric Newborn Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Expertise: Computational modeling of human emotion,social determinants of health, Empathy in human interaction Medical education
Maida, Anthony, PhD
Associate Professor, Computer Science Biological Intelligence Lab
Expertise: Intelligent systems, neural networks, brain simulation, neurocomputing, computational neuroscience, and AI explainability.
Shi, Min, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Computing and Informatics
Expertise: Computer vision and fairness in AI and medical informatics, federated learning, medical AI, and graph learning.
Sittig, Scott, PhD, MHI, RHIA
Associate Professor
Health Information Science
Expertise: applied health informatics, patient engagement, and chronic disease management.
Tozal, Mehmet, PhD
Francis Patrick Clark/BORSF Endowed Associate Professor
School of Computing and Informatics
Wilson, Gabriela, PhD
Director, Louisiana Center for Health Innovation;
Dr. J. Robert Rivet Endowed Chair;
Acadian Ambulance Service/BORSF Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Health Informatics; Professor, College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Expertise: Health and pharmaco-informatics, interprofessional education and multidisciplinary research with community, academic, and industrial partners, and social media analytics.
Zheng, Hao, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Computing and Informatics
Intelligent Biomedical Data Analytics Lab
Expertise: Biomedical image and data analysis, multi-modal learning, reliable AI.
Tulane University
Crosslin, David, PhD
Associate Professor, Division of Biomedical Informatics and Genomics, School of Medicine, Director of the Sex-Based Precision Medicine Research Core.
Expertise: Clinical decision support; Bioinformatics; Implementation Science
Ding, Zhengming (Allan), PhD
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Expertise: Computer Vision, Machine Learning
Fonseca, Vivian, PhD
Chief, Endocrinology, Professor, Tullis-Tulane Alumni Chair—Diabetes, Asst. Dean for Clinical Research, School of Medicine
Expertise: Diabetes; Clinical translational research
Hamm, Jihun, PhD
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Expertise: Robust Machine Learning, Medical Image Analysis
Hassan, Saad
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Expertise: Human-Computer Interaction; Accessible Computing
Ley, Sylvia
Assistant Professor in Epidemiology, University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Expertise: Nutrition, Diabetes, Life Course Epidemiology
Shi, Lizheng
Neal A. and Mary Vanselow Chair in Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Clinical Faculty, Department of Medicine, Director, Health Systems Analytics Research Center
Expertise: Healthcare analytics and evaluation
Zheng, Zizhan
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Expertise: Reinforcement Learning; AI and Security
University of Florida
Allen, Jessica, PhD
Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Expertise: interventional decisions in rehabilitation and device design for ambulatory impairments, leveraging musculoskeletal modeling and machine learning to identify biomechanical deficits and to predict functional improvements.
Frang, Ruogu, PhD
College of Engineering
Expertise: artificial intelligence (AI)-empowered precision brain health.
Gong, Kuang, PhD
Expertise: deep learning for medical imaging
Ji, Mingyue, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Expertise: His research lies in the intersection of machine learning, distributed computing and storage, communication and networking, and information theory. He develops AI algorithms and edge hardware platforms for wireless sensing, wireless networking, and understanding the information-theoretic fundamentals of AI.
Liu, Mei, PhD
Expertise: discovery in medicine using electronic medical health record data
Mardini, Mamoun, PhD
Expertise: mining electronic health records and wearable
Napoli, Nicholas, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Expertise: His research focuses on machine learning and signal processing approaches to capture, characterize, and predict human physiology and system dynamics to optimize the performance of humans within systems (e.g., extreme environments, aeronautic applications, smart health care systems).
Nichols, Jennifer, PhD
Expertise:predictive simulations that cross-disciplinary boundaries
Rahman, Protiva, PhD
Expertise:democratizing data science to empower domain experts in healthcare
Shao, Wei, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Quantitative Health, College of Medicine.
Expertise: His research focuses on artificial intelligence in medical imaging to improve patient care. This includes machine learning for multimodal image registration, segmentation, and translation; disease diagnosis from medical images; and integrating image processing into clinical workflows.
Georgia Tech
Ayer, Turgay, PhD
Expertise: healthcare analytics, AI and generative AI in medicine, socially responsible operations, and practice-focused research
Bhatti, Pamela, PhD
Expertise: Neural Prostheses, Mechanical Heart motion, training programs, cardiac gating
Expertise: data fusion, multimodal brain imaging, biomarkers identification, imaging genomics
Coleman, Maribeth Gandy
Expertise: Augmented/Mixed Reality; Mobile/Wearable Computing; Gaming; Computer Audio; Assistive and Rehabilitation Technologies; Human Computer Interaction; Virtual Reality
Emelianov, Stanislav
Expertise: Diagnostic imaging and patient-specific image-guided therapeutics including cancer imaging and diagnosis
Ploetz, Thomas
Expertise: Ubiquitous Computing; Wearable Computing; Machine Learning; Health Analytics; Computational Behavior Assessment
Expertise:: nano- and micro-systems for bio-molecular sensing and imaging; high-throughput bio-analytical instrumentation
Serban, Nicoleta
Peterson Professor of Pediatric Research in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Expertise:: Health systems, health analytics, health access, data mining, enterprise transformation
Starr, Richard
Expertise:s: Data infrastructure for health research, lifelong health and well being
Wang, May D
Expertise: Integrated Biomedical Big Data analytics, Dynamic Systems Modeling, Health Informatics, Telemedicine