Director

Dr. Zhe He, FAMIA

• Associate Professor, School of Information, Florida State University
• Associate Professor (courtesy), Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine, Florida State University
• Associate Professor (courtesy), Department of Computer Science, Florida State University
• Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA)
• Core Affiliate, Institute for Successful Longevity, Florida State University
• Informatics Lead, UF-FSU Clinical and Translational Science Award, Florida State University

Faculty Affiliates

Dr. Mia Lustria

• Professor, School of Information, Florida State University
• Associate Editor, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
• Areas of Research: Behavior Change Interventions; Consumer Health Informatics; Persuasive Technology; Tailored Health Communication

Postdoc Scholar

Balu Bhusaran, PhD

• 07/2023 – Present
• Topic: TBD

Doctoral Students

Postdoctoral Scholar / Visiting Assistant Professor

• Balu Bhasuran, PhD
  • 07/2023 – Present
  • Topic: Biomedical Deep learning and Natural Language Processing, EHR Data Modelling 
  • Dr. He’s role: Postdoc Advisor

Application Developer

• Dhruv Kale, MS
  • 03/2024 – Present
  • Dr. He’s role: Supervisor

Doctoral Students

• Forhan Bin Emdad, PhD student, School of Information, Florida State University 
  • 08/2021 – present
  • Topic: Trustworthy AI and Explainable AI I in medicine
  • Dr. He’s role: Chair of the Dissertation Committee
• Yuanying Pang, PhD student, School of Information, Florida State University 
  • 08/2022 – present
  • Topic: Adherence to digital health interventions
  • Dr. He’s role: Chair of the Dissertation Committee
• Xiaoyu Wang, PhD student, Department of Statistics, Florida State University
  • 8/2022 – present, Graduate Research Assistant
  • Topic: Prediction Models with EHR Data, NLP methods for extracting social determinants of health from clinical notes
  • Dr. He’s role: Co-Advisor
• Aejin Lee, PhD student, School of Information, Florida State University
  • 06/2024 – present
  • Topic: TBD
  • Dr. He’s role: First-Year Advisor

Undergraduate Students

• Angelique Deville, UROP Program (2023-2024), OPS Research Assistant (2023-2024), Department of Biological Sciences
• Hailey Thompson, UROP Program (2023-2024), OPS Research Assistant (2023-2024), Department of Computer Science
• Akhil Shiju, UROP Program (2020-2021), OPS Research Assistant (2022-2023), Department of Biological Sciences
• Currently a medical student at Florida State University College of Medicine
• Jessica Valyou, UROP Program (2021-2022), OPS Student (2022- 2024)
• Elizabeth Steidley, UROP Program (2020-2021)

Alumni

Alsan Erdengasileng,  PhD Graduate, Department of Statistics, Florida State University

• 2019 – 2023, Graduate Research Assistant (Dissertation Committee Member)
• Publications (N=5): SEPDA 2021a, SEPDA 2021b, BCB 2021, JAMIA Open 2021, AMIA 2022 Summit
• First Employment: Data Scientist at Nationwide Children’s Hospital

Shubo Tian, PhD Graduate, Department of Statistics, Florida State University

• 2020 – 2022, Graduate Research Assistant (Dissertation Committee Member)
• Topic: Prediction Models with EHR Data
• Publications (N=5): SEPDA 2021a, SEPDA 2021b, BCB 2021, AMIA 2022 Summit, Gerontologist 2022
• First Employment: Research Scientist at National Center for Biotechnology Information, US National Library of Medicine

Daniel Bis, PhD Graduate, Department of Computer Science, Florida State University

• 2018 – 2022, Collaborating student (Dissertation Committee Member)
• Topic: Word sense disambiguation, deep learning-based natural language processing 
• Publications (N=2): BIBM 2018, BMC Bioinformatics 2019
• First Employment: Applied Scientist at Amazon (Alexa AI)

Aiwen Xing, PhD Graduate, Department of Statistics, Florida State University 

• 2020 – 2022, Collaborating student (Dissertation Committee Member)
• Topic: Meta-analysis for biomedical and translational research
• First Employment: Senior Biostistical Scientist, Merck & Co. 
• Publications (N=6): JAMIA Open 2021, JMIR 2020–1, JMIR 2020-2, ICHI 2021, AMIA 2021 Informatics Summit, PLOS One 2022

Laura A. Barrett, MS

• MS Student in Information Technology, School of Information, Florida State University
• Topic: Prediction Models for Disease Outcomes; Health Information Seeking
• Paper Published (N=3): AMIA 2019 Summit; MEDINFO 2019; AMIA 2020 Summit
• Poster Presented (N=1): MEDINFO 2019
• First Employment: Florida Department of Health

Seyedeh Neelufar Payrovnaziri, PhD, MS

• PhD in Information Studies (ABD), School of Information, Florida State University
• Topic: Explainable AI using EHR for Mortality Prediction for Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases
• Paper Published (N=7): AMIA 2019 Summit; MEDINFO 2019; AMIA 2020 Summit; IJCNN 2020; JAMIA (2020), JAMIA Open (2021), AMIA 2021 Informatics Summit
• Poster Presented (N=1): MEDINFO 2019
• First Employment: Postdoc Scholar at Stanford University School of Medicine

Lynette Gerido, PhD, MPH

• PhD Student in Information Studies, School of Information, Florida State University
• Topic: Clinical Trial Information Seeking, Participation, and Enrollment
• Paper published (N=1): JMIR (2020)
• Poster presented (N=4): AMIA 2018 Poster, ICHI 2018 Poster, ASIS&T 2017 Poster #1, ASIS&T 2017 Poster #2
• Awards: Runner-Up of 2017 AcademyHealth HRSProj Student Research Competition
• First Employment: Postdoc Researcher at University of Michigan School of Public Health

Yu Lu, MS

• Specialist, School of Information, Florida State University
• Topic: Consumer Health Informatics
• Paper published (N=4): MEDINFO 2019, JMIR 2020, AMIA 2020, iConference 2021
• Poster Presented (N=1): MEDINFO 2019

Xiang Tang, MS

• MS Student, Department of Statistics, Florida State University
• Topic: Clinical Trial Generalizability Assessment
• Paper published (N=3): JMIR (2019), Clinical and Translational Science (2020), Sleep Health (2020)
• First Employment: Associate Statistical Programmer at Boehringer Ingelheim

Zhiwei Chen, MS, Department of Computer Science, Florida State University

• 08/2015 – 08/2017 , Graduate Research Assistant
• Topic: Natural Language Processing on Biomedical and Social Media Text
• Paper published (N=7): BMC Med Inform and Decision Making (2018), JBI (2017), JMIR Med Inform (2017), BIBM 2017, BIBM 2016, EMBC 2016, iConference 2016.
• First Employment: Software Engineer in Machine Learning at Evie Labs, Palo Alto, CA

Jiwon Lee, PhD, Department of Statistics, Florida State University

• 08/2016 – 08/2017, Graduate Assistant
• Topic: Prevalence of Multiple Chronic Conditions in the National Inpatient Sample
• Paper published (N=1): JMIR (2018)
• First Employment: Mathematical Statistician at United States Census Bureau, Washington DC

Min Sook Park, PhD, School of Information, Florida State University

• 08/2015 – 12/2015, Graduate Research Assistant
• Topic: Analysis of Medical Vocabulary Coverage on Health-Related Social Media
• Paper published (N=2): JMIR Med Inform (2017), iConference 2016
• First Employment: Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI