Scholarly Projects

Faculty Member

Areas of Research Interest

Shu-Chuan (Grace) Chen

Pattern recognition, Mixture models, Bioinformatics, Data mining

Trevor Cohen

Latent semantic analysis, Comprehension and medical expertise, Distributed cognition and medical error

Valentin Dinu

Biomedical informatics, Translational research, Integrative disease association analysis, Genome wide association studies, Entity-attribute-value database modeling

Robert A. Greenes

Modeling of clinical decision making, Knowledge representation, Knowledge management, Clinical decision support, Personal biosensors, Human-computer interaction, Group collaborative work

William Johnson

Community health information systems, Health care effectiveness, Health care disparities, Surveillance systems, Environmental effects on health, Patient safety, Health care workforce, Economic evaluations of health care

Vimla L. Patel

Medical cognition, Medical decision-making and reasoning, Patient safety and medical errors, Socio-cognitive studies of human-computer interaction, Cognitive assessment of learning and instruction. Impact of BMI instruction on student performance in medical education curriculum. Evaluation of surgical houstaff performance related to use of informatics tools. Cognitive Usability evaluation of electronic medical record system in the Emergency Room. Medical Errors and technological solutions during information “handoffs” in ICU. Expert –Novice differences in medical text processing in health care.

Chitta Baral

Artificial intelligence, Knowledge representation and reasoning, Declarative programming, Bioinformatics, Autonomous agents, Logic programming, Cognitive robotics, Multimedia, Visualization of databases.

Kenneth Bobis

Healthcare informatics, Distance learning, Computer application development

Gerald Farin

3D modeling, Scientific visualization

Keith Frey

Clinical informatics, CPOE (post-implementation studies of the efficiency and effectiveness of care), Quality and safety improvement through IT, Primary care, Preconception health care, Maternity care

Sandeep K.S. Gupta

Wireless networks, Mobile and ubiquitous/pervasive computing, Embedded sensor networks for biomedical applications, Parallel and Distributed computing

Seungchan Kim

Computational systems biology, Bioinformatics, Genomic signal processing, Modeling genetic regulatory networks, Identification of genetic or molecular markers for cancer classification, Statistical machine learning

Joel McAlduff

Clinical systems implementation, Computerized Physician Order Entry

Shahram (Shez) Partovi

HL7 standards-based data modeling, Real-time health data mining (outcomes driven decision support, Outbreak/bioterrorism surveillance), Patient-driven disease registries (community self-reporting),Medical multimedia archiving

Steven Wormsley

Bioinformatics, Computers in Health Science Education

Jieping Ye

Machine learning, Data mining, Bioinformatics