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Academic Achievements
- As Contact PI or Multi-PI, research funded by multiple institutions including the National Library of Medicine/NIH, National Institute on Aging/NIH, National Institute of Mental Health/NIH, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), UF Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Eli Lilly and Company, Amazon, NVIDIA, FSU Council on Research and Creativity, and Institute for Successful Longevity
- Served as a PI of several important research projects such as NIA/NIH R01 (APPT), AHRQ R21/R33 (LabGenie), NIMH R21/R33 (Youth Learning Health Community), NLM/NIH R21 (pediatric transplantation outcomes prediction), and NIA/NIH R21 (clinical trial generalizability analysis)
- Total grant award received since joining FSU in 2015 exceeds $21 million
Research Experience
- Director of the eHealth Lab at Florida State University
- Director of the Institute for Successful Longevity at Florida State University
- 2015-2020: Associate Professor with tenure at Florida State University
- 2020-2025: Promoted to Full Professor at Florida State University
- 2023-2024: Visiting the National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine/NIH, studying biomedical natural language processing and text engineering
Education
- 2007: BS in Computer Science from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
- 2009: MS in Computer Science from Columbia University
- 2014: PhD in Computer Science from New Jersey Institute of Technology, advised by Dr. James Geller and Dr. Yehoshua Perl
Background
- A biomedical informatician with formal training in both computer science and informatics
- Research lies at the intersection of biomedical and health informatics, computer science, and information science
- Expertise includes machine learning, natural language processing, knowledge representation, and human-centered computing
- Elected fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics (IAHSI) and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)