OSU President’s Research Excellence Accelerator Award (2024)
Listed in World's Top 2% Scientists (2023–present)
NSF CAREER Award (2022)
OSU Award for Excellence in Mentoring (2021)
ICML Top Reviewer (2020)
DII National Data Science Challenge Honorable Mention Award (2019)
IBM Master Inventor Award (2018)
IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for Cognitive-driven Chronic Disease Management Solution Suite (2018)
IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for Patient Similarity Analytics (2016)
ESWC Best In-Use/Industrial Paper Award (2016)
AMIA Summits Nomination for Marco Ramoni Distinguished Paper Award (2014)
ACM Future of Computing Gold Award (First Place) for Graduate Projects (2012)
NSF Travel Grant Award for BIBM (2012)
Associate Editor for journals including BMC Digital Health, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research
IAHSI Fellow (2025–present), AMIA Fellow (2020–present), IEEE Senior Member (2018–present)
ACM Distinguished Speaker (2018–2021)
Principal investigator on multiple grants from NSF (e.g., CAREER IIS-2145625) and NIH (multiple R01, R21, R25 awards)
Background
Tenured Associate Professor at The Ohio State University (OSU), with joint appointments in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) and the Department of Biomedical Informatics (BMI)
Leads the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIMed) Lab at OSU
Leads the Artificial Intelligence in Digital Health Collaboration Core at OSU Wexner Medical Center (OSUWMC)
Serves as Vice Chair of Education, developing and directing AI in Digital Health education programs at OSU
Research focuses on machine learning, data mining, and their applications in foundation models (e.g., LLMs, large vision/multimodal models, AI agents), trustworthy AI (e.g., explainability, robustness, domain generalization, causal inference, uncertainty quantification, human-AI collaboration), and computational medicine (e.g., predictive modeling, medical imaging, clinical NLP, real-world evidence, drug discovery & development)