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
Senior Artificial Intelligence Research Scientist, Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence
Expertise: Clinical decision-making using LLMs, Biomedical information retrieval, clinical education standards, and clinical cognition.

Associate Professor
School of Computing and Informatics
Expertise: Human-computer interaction, health informatics, mobile computing, health data analytics.

Associate Professor
School of Computing and Informatics
Expertise: Federated computing, big data analytics, machine learning systems, resource allocation, cloud computing.

Professor, School of Computing and Informatics
Expertise: Machine learning and Computer vision (Medical imaging), Clinical Trials, Pattern recognition.

Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering
Expertise: Biomechanics, structures, image-based computational biomechanics, mechanics of 3D printed cellular structures.

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.

Artificial Intelligence Research Scientist, Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence
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

Associate Professor, Computer Science Biological Intelligence Lab
Expertise: Intelligent systems, neural networks, brain simulation, neurocomputing, computational neuroscience, and AI explainability.

Assistant Professor
School of Computing and Informatics
Expertise: Computer vision and fairness in AI and medical informatics, federated learning, medical AI, and graph learning.

Associate Professor
Health Information Science
Expertise: applied health informatics, patient engagement, and chronic disease management.

Francis Patrick Clark/BORSF Endowed Associate Professor
School of Computing and Informatics

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.

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

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

Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Expertise: Computer Vision, Machine Learning

Chief, Endocrinology, Professor, Tullis-Tulane Alumni Chair—Diabetes, Asst. Dean for Clinical Research, School of Medicine
Expertise: Diabetes; Clinical translational research

Associate Professor of Computer Science
Expertise: Robust Machine Learning, Medical Image Analysis

Hassan, Saad, PhD
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Expertise: Human-Computer Interaction; Accessible Computing

Assistant Professor in Epidemiology, University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Expertise: Nutrition, Diabetes, Life Course Epidemiology

Shi, Lizheng, PhD, MsPharm, MA
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, PhD
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Expertise: Reinforcement Learning; AI and Security
University of Florida

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.

Expertise: artificial intelligence (AI)-empowered precision brain health.

Assistant Professor, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering
Expertise: deep learning for medical imaging

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.

Health Outcomes & Biomedical Informatics, College of Medicine
Expertise: discovery in medicine using electronic medical health record data

Assistant Professor, Health outcomes & Implementation Science
Expertise: mining electronic health records and wearable

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).

Associate Professor, J. crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering
Expertise:predictive simulations that cross-disciplinary boundaries

Assistant Professor & Director of Cancer Data Integration
Expertise:democratizing data science to empower domain experts in healthcare

Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Quantitative Health, Division of Nephrology, Hypertension & Renal Transplantation, 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

Virginia C. and Joseph C. Mello Chair and Professor, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Expertise: healthcare analytics, AI and generative AI in medicine, socially responsible operations, and practice-focused research

Professor and Associate Chair for Strategic Innovation, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Expertise: Neural Prostheses, Mechanical Heart motion, training programs, cardiac gating

Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Expertise: data fusion, multimodal brain imaging, biomarkers identification, imaging genomics

Assistant Vice Provost for Research Faculty, Director of Research for IPaT, and Regents’ Researcher
Expertise: Augmented/Mixed Reality; Mobile/Wearable Computing; Gaming; Computer Audio; Assistive and Rehabilitation Technologies; Human Computer Interaction; Virtual Reality

Emelianov, Stanislav, PhD
Joseph M. Pettit Endowed Chair, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, and Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
Expertise: Diagnostic imaging and patient-specific image-guided therapeutics including cancer imaging and diagnosis

Professor and Associate Chair of Graduate Studies
Expertise: Ubiquitous Computing; Wearable Computing; Machine Learning; Health Analytics; Computational Behavior Assessment

Professor, School of Eletrcial and Computer Engineering
Expertise:: nano- and micro-systems for bio-molecular sensing and imaging; high-throughput bio-analytical instrumentation

Serban, Nicoleta, PhD
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

Senior Research Scientist, IPaT Secure Data Enclave (IPaT SDE) (formerly the Protected Health Data infrastructure at IPaT)
Expertise:s: Data infrastructure for health research, lifelong health and well being

Professor of BME, ECE, and CSE
The Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Fellow
Director of Biomedical Big Data Initiative and Georgia Distinguished Cancer Scholar, Petit Institute Faculty Fellow, Kavli Fellow
AIMBE Fellow, IAMBE Fellow, IEEE Fellow Board of Directors of American Board of AI in Medicine,
Expertise: Integrated Biomedical Big Data analytics, Dynamic Systems Modeling, Health Informatics, Telemedicine