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
- 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
Yuanying Pang, MS
- PhD Student, School of Information, Florida State University
- Topic: TBD
Forhan Bin Emdad, MS
- PhD Student, School of Information, Florida State University
- Topic: TBD
Arslan Erdenasileng, MS
- PhD Student, Department of Statistics, Florida State University
- Topic: Clinical Trial Generalizability Assessment
Biyang Yu, MS
- PhD Candidate in Information Studies, School of Information, Florida State University
- Topic: Text Mining of Health-Related Online Communities
- Paper published (N=2): BIBM 2017, JMIR (2020)
- Poster presented (N=1): ASIS&T 2017
Undergraduate Students
Akhil Shiju
- Pre-med Student, Florida State University
- UROP Project: Social Media Data Analysis for Drug Review
Brittney Chang
- Pre-med Student, Florida State University
- UROP Project: Understanding Pregnancy-Related Information Seeking Behavior
Elizabeth Steidley
- Pre-med Student, Florida State University
- UROP Project: Obesity and Its Health Implications: Assessing the Use of Prescription Medication Among Obese Respondents with National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Alumni
Aiwen Xing, PhD, MS
- PhD Student, Department of Statistics, Florida State University
- Topic: Biostatistical Analysis
- Paper Published (N=9): BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making (2022), PLOS One (2022), JAMIA Open (2022), JMIR (2020), JMIR (2020), ICHI 2021, AMIA 2021 Informatics Summit
- First Employment: Merck Co.
Shubo Tian, PhD
- PhD Student, Department of Statistics, Florida State University
- Topic: Clinical Trial Generalizability Assessment
- Papers Published (N=8): Frontier in Psychology (2022), Information Processing and Management (2022), Gerontologist (2022), BIBM 2022, AMIA 2022 Informatics Summit, SEPDA 2021, BCB 2021
- First Employment: National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), US National Library of Medicine
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