8/1/2023: Welcome Dr. Bhasuran to my lab as my first postdoc! I’m excited to work with him to advance computational health sciences and biomedical informatics for the betterment of our world!
7/1/2023: Zhe He will serve as Program Chair of the 9th IEEE/ACM international conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE 2024) (Co-Chair: Ye Sun)
5/4/2023: First-author paper “Enriching Real-world Data with Social Determinants of Health for Health Outcomes and Health Equity: Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities” has been accepted by IMIA Yearbook in Medical Informatics.
12/16/2022: Our lab has one student paper and one podium abstract accepted by AMIA 2023 Informatics Summit! Congratulations to the students and collaborators involved in this project, particularly to Forhan Bin Emdad for his first first-author paper!
6/21/2022: I’m extremely thrilled and honored to receive 2022 Lois Lunin Award from the Association for Information Science and Technology.
2/10/2022: We received a $395,020 R21 grant from the National Library of Medicine of NIH!
10/20/2021: Congratulations to our recent graduate Neelufar Payrovnaziri for her postdoc position at Stanford University School of Medicine!
10/5/2021: Congratulations to Dr. He on the Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association!
9/21/2021: Congratulations to Neelufar Payrovnaziri for defending her doctoral dissertation!
12/15/2020: Congratulations to Yu on the acceptance of his iConference 2021 paper! The acceptance of full paper is 31% (32/103).
12/7/2020: Congratulations to Neelufar on the acceptance of her AMIA 2021 Summit paper!
11/10/2020: Our paper How do mothers exchange parenting-related information in online communities? A meta-synthesis has been accepted by Computers in Human Behavior!
10/30/2020: Our paper “Attention Mechanism with BERT for Content Annotation and Categorization of Pregnancy-Related Questions on a Community Q&A Site” has been accepted by IEEE BIBM 2020.
8/10/2020: Dr. Zhe He is promoted to Associate Professor!
5/11/2020: Our paper “A review of auditing techniques for the Unified Medical Language System” has been accepted by the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, the top journal in biomedical informatics!!
4/4/2020: Our paper “Explainable Artificial Intelligence Models Using Real-World Electronic Health Records Data: a Systematic Scoping Review” has been accepted by the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, the top journal in biomedical informatics!
2/21/2020: Our paper “An Informatics Framework to Assess Consumer Health Language Complexity Differences: Proof-of-Concept Study” has been accepted by the Journal of Medical Internet Research!
12/23/2019: Dr. He received FSU President’s letter to approve his early promotion to Associate Professor with tenure!
7/1/2019: Our book “Social Web and Health Research – Benefits, Limitations and Best Practice” has been published by Springer International Publishing AG. 2019. Print ISBN: 978-3-030-14713-6. Online ISBN: 978-3-030-14714-3. DOI: doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14714-3.
6/24/2019: We received the $40K Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s (CTSI) Precision Health Initiative Pilot Award for the project “Posttransplant Health Outcomes in Pediatrics Organ Transplantation”. Thank you UF-FSU Joint CTSI to support our research! We will be collaborating with Dr. Michael Killian and Dr. Dipankar Gupta on this project.
4/28/2019: Our paper “Alternative Classification of Identical Concepts in Different Terminologies: Different Ways to View the World” has been accepted by Journal of Biomedical Informatics, the premier methodology journal in biomedical informatics.
4/5/2019: Honored to receive 2019 Outstanding Faculty Research Award from College of Communication and Information, Florida State University
2/22/2019: Our research paper on mortality prediction in heart attack patients has been reported by VentureBeat.com [Link]
2/5/2019: Our paper in AMIA 2019 Informatics Summit has been selected as a finalist of the Student Paper Award. Congratulations to Laura and Neelufar!
1/8/2019: We have received a two-year NIH R21 grant titled “Systematic Analysis of Clinical Study Generalizability Assessment Methods with Informatics” to support our research on clinical trial generalizability (Amount: $422,382)
10/30/2018: Our papers “Comparing the Study Populations in Dietary Supplement and Drug Clinical Trials for Metabolic Syndrome Related Disorders” and “Building Computational Models to Predict One-Year Mortality in ICU Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction and Post Myocardial Infarction Syndrome” are accepted by AMIA 2019 Informatics Summit, which will take place March 25-28, 2019 in San Francisco, CA. Congratulations to Neelufar Payrovnaziri and Laura Barrett for their first ever publication!
10/11/2018: Our paper “Layered Multistep Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Networks for Biomedical Word Sense Disambiguation” as been accepted by 2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicineas Regular Paper (Acceptance Rate: 19.6%). Congratulations to Daniel Biś, Canlin Zhang, and Dr. Xiuwen Liu.
9/14/2018: Our AMIA 2018 paper has been selected as a finalist of the Student Paper Award of AMIA 2018 Annual Symposium!
7/26/2018: Dr. He is delighted to serve as Tutorial Co-chair for the 7th IEEE International Conference on Health Informatics (ICHI 2019) in June 2019 in Beijing, China
6/12/2018: Two papers accepted by AMIA 2018 Annual Symposium
5/15/2018: Received a planning grant from Institute for Successful Longevity “Measuring Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorder and Benchmarking Utilization Using the OneFlorida Consortium Data” with Dr. Henry Carretta.
4/1/2018: Two papers accepted by the BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
2/15/2018: Our paper “Comparative analysis of prevalence of multiple chronic conditions among older adults in Florida and the United States: Estimates from the OneFlorida Clinical Research Consortium Data Trust and National Inpatient Sample” has been accepted by Journal of Medical Internet Research, the top journal in the field of health and medical informatics with an IF of 5.17.
2/12/2018: Dr. He is delighted to receive the NVIDIA Corporation’s GPU Grant with the donation of a Titan Xp to support our biomedical informatics and deep learning research.
12/20/2017: Our paper “Validating UMLS Semantic Type Assignments Using SNOMED CT Semantic Tags” has been accepted by the oldest journal in Medical Informatics — Methods of Information in Medicine.
12/13/2017: Our paper “Using social media data to understand the impact of promotional information on laypeople’s discussions: the case of Lynch syndrome” has been published by Journal of Medical Internet Research.
11/8/2017: Our paper “Comparing and Contrasting A Priori and A Posteriori Generalizability Assessment of Clinical Trials on Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus” won one of three Distinguished Paper Awards of AMIA 2017 Annual Symposium. Three best papers were selected from 105 accepted regular papers and 266 paper submissions. [CCI News]
11/4/2017: Our paper “Comparing and Contrasting A Priori and A Posteriori Generalizability Assessment of Clinical Trials on Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus” has been nominated for the Distinguished Paper Award of AMIA 2017 Annual Symposium.
10/16/2017: Dr. He is invited to join the Program Committee of AMIA 2018 Annual Symposium!
10/15/2017: Our lab has three papers accepted by the BIBM 2017 SEPDA Workshop. Congratulations to my students Zhiwei Chen and Biyang Yu!! Another collaborative paper was also accepted. All of these four papers will be published in IEEE BIBM 2017 Proceedings.
06/15/2017: First-author full paper “Comparing and Contrasting A Priori and A Posteriori Generalizability Assessment of Clinical Trials on Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus” and three poster abstracts have been accepted by AMIA 2017 Annual Symposium
04/07/2017: Dr. He received the “Outstanding Faculty Research Award” from College of Communication & Information at FSU
03/24/2017: Our paper “Enriching consumer health vocabulary through mining a social Q&A site: a similarity-based approach” has been accepted by Journal of Biomedical Informatics [ScienceDirect] [PDF]
12/5/2016: Our paper “Consumer’s use of UMLS concepts on social media: diabetes-related textual data analysis in blog and social Q&A sites” has been accepted byJMIR Medical Informatics.
6/17/2016: Our paper on mining twitter to assess the public perception of the “Internet of things” has been accepted by PLOS ONE!
6/16/2016: First-author AMIA 2016 paper has been accepted!
6/10/2016: Dr. He is awarded the ISL Planning Grant of $15,500 to investigate the representation of elderly patients with multiple comorbidities in cancer clinical trials
1/28/2015: Dr. He received FSU First Year Assistant Professor Grant
1/19/2015: First-author paper “Multivariate analysis of the population representativeness of related clinical studies” has been accepted by Journal of Biomedical Informatics!
1/18/2015: Our FLAIRS-29 paper has been accepted.
1/18/2015: First-author BHI 2016 paper has been accepted.
11/30/2015: Dr. He has been awarded Amazon AWS Education and Research Grant to support my research in health informatics! The grant provides $2,000 credits for AWS services that will allow my lab to develop web-based research tools using RDS storage and EC2 on-demand computing service. Thank you Amazon for supporting my research and educational activities! [Announcement]
11/23/2015: First-author iConference 2016 paper has been accepted.
11/22/2015: Our paper “DREAM – a classification scheme for dialog acts in clinical research query mediation” has been accepted by Journal of Biomedical Informatics.
