Research Team

I am looking forward to meeting motivated students who are interested in Biomedical Informatics, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Ontologies. I have successfully advised undergraduate and graduate students in Information Studies, Computer Science, Biomedical Informatics, and Statistics and published papers with them. Interested students should send his/her CV with particular research/project interests to Dr. He at "zhe AT fsu.edu".

2018

2024

Current Trainees and Students

Postdoctoral Scholar

Balu Bhasuran, PhD
- 07/2023 - Present
- Topic: Biomedical Deep learning and Natural Language Processing, EHR Data Modelling
- Dr. He's role: Postdoc Advisor

Application Developer

Dhruv Kale, MS
- 03/2024 - Present
- Dr. He's role: Supervisor

Doctoral Students

Forhan Bin Emdad, PhD student, School of Information, Florida State University
- 08/2021 - present
- Topic: Trustworthy AI and Explainable AI I in medicine
- Dr. He's role: Chair of the Dissertation Committee
Yuanying Pang, PhD student, School of Information, Florida State University
- 08/2022 - present
- Topic: Adherence to digital health interventions
- Dr. He's role: Chair of the Dissertation Committee
Roxanne Monique Oluwalowo, PhD student, School of Information, Florida State University
- 06/2023 - present
- Topic: TBD
- Dr. He's role: First-Year Advisor

Collaborating Doctoral Students

Xiaoyu Wang, PhD student, Department of Statistics, Florida State University
- 8/2022 - present, Graduate Research Assistant
- Topic: Prediction Models with EHR Data, NLP methods for extracting social determinants of health from clinical notes
Wenshan Han, PhD student, Department of Statistics
- 9/2023 - present
- Topic: Modeling of the seasonality of lab tests using EHR data

Undergraduate Students

- Angelique Deville, UROP Program (2023-2024), OPS Research Assistant (2023-2024), Department of Biological Sciences
- Hailey Thompson, UROP Program (2023-2024), OPS Research Assistant (2023-2024), Department of Computer Science
- Akhil Shiju, UROP Program (2020-2021), OPS Research Assistant (2022-2023), Department of Biological Sciences
  - Currently a medical student at Florida State University College of Medicine
- Jessica Valyou, UROP Program (2021-2022), OPS Student (2022- 2024)
- Elizabeth Steidley, UROP Program (2020-2021)

Alumni

Doctoral Degree Graduates

Alsan Erdengasileng, PhD Graduate, Department of Statistics, Florida State University
- 2019 - 2023, Graduate Research Assistant (Dissertation Committee Member)
- Publications (N=5): SEPDA 2021a, SEPDA 2021b, BCB 2021, JAMIA Open 2021, AMIA 2022 Summit
- First Employment: Data Scientist at Nationwide Children's Hospital
Shubo Tian, PhD Graduate, Department of Statistics, Florida State University
- 2020 - 2022, Graduate Research Assistant (Dissertation Committee Member)
- Topic: Prediction Models with EHR Data
- Publications (N=5): SEPDA 2021a, SEPDA 2021b, BCB 2021, AMIA 2022 Summit, Gerontologist 2022
- First Employment: Research Scientist at National Center for Biotechnology Information, US National Library of Medicine
Daniel Bis, PhD Graduate, Department of Computer Science, Florida State University
- 2018 - 2022, Collaborating student (Dissertation Committee Member)
- Topic: Word sense disambiguation, deep learning-based natural language processing
- Publications (N=2): BIBM 2018, BMC Bioinformatics 2019
- First Employment: Applied Scientist at Amazon (Alexa AI)
Aiwen Xing, PhD Graduate, Department of Statistics, Florida State University
- 2020 - 2022, Collaborating student (Dissertation Committee Member)
- Topic: Meta-analysis for biomedical and translational research
- First Employment: Senior Biostistical Scientist, Merck & Co.
- Publications (N=6): JAMIA Open 2021, JMIR 2020-1, JMIR 2020-2, ICHI 2021, AMIA 2021 Informatics Summit, PLOS One 2022
Neelufar Payrovnaziri, PhD Graduate, School of Information, Florida State University
- 3/2018 - 12/2021, Doctoral student advisee (Major professor)
- Topic: Explainable AI Models for Predicting Mortality for Patients with Major Cardiovascular Diseases
- Publications (N=7): AMIA 2019 Informatics Summit, MEDINFO 2019, AMIA 2020 Informatics Summit, IJCNN 2020, JAMIA 2020, AMIA 2021 Informatics Summit, JAMIA Open 2021
- First Employment: Postdoc Scholar at Stanford University School of Medicine
- Current Position: Data Scientist at UCI Health
Biyang Yu, PhD candidate (ABD), School of Information, Florida State University
- 08/2016 - 2020, Collaborating student (Dissertation Committee Member)
- Topic: Text Mining of Discussion Board Postings of D/deaf Online Communities
- Publications (N=2): BIBM 2017, JMIR 2020
- Poster presented (N=1): ASIS&T 2017 Poster
Canlin Zhang, PhD Graduate, Department of Applied Mathematics, Florida State University
- 3/2018 - 5/2021, Collaborating student (Dissertation Committee Member)
- Topic: Word sense disambiguation
- Publications (N=2): BIBM 2018, BMC Bioinformatics 2019
- First Employment: Machine Learning Engineer, Circulo Health, Virginia, US
Juan Xie, Visiting PhD Student, School of Information Resource Management, Nanjing University, China
- 08/2018 - 09/2010, Collaborating student
- Topic: Online Information Behavior of Young Moms
- Publications (N=2): Computers in Human Behavior 2021, JMIR Cancer 2020
- First Employment: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Hunan University, China
Lynette Gerido, PhD Graduate, School of Information, Florida State University
- 05/2017 - 05/2021, Collaborating Student (Dissertation Committee Member)
- Topic: Clinical Trial Information Seeking, Participation, and Enrollment
- Publications (N=1): JMIR 2019
- Poster presented (N=4): AMIA 2018 Poster, ICHI 2018 Poster, ASIS&T 2017 Poster #1, ASIS&T 2017 Poster #2
- First Employment: Postdoc Fellow at University of Michigan School of Public Health
- Current Employment: Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University
Yiqi Xu, PhD Graduate, Department of Statistics, Florida State University
- 05/2019 - 05/2021, Collaborating student (Dissertation Committee Member)
- Topic: Clinical research participation
Jiwon Lee, PhD Graduate, Department of Statistics, Florida State University
- 08/2016 - 08/2017, Graduate Research Assistant
- Topic: Prevalence of Multiple Chronic Conditions in the National Inpatient Sample
- Publications (N=1): JMIR 2018
- First Employment: Mathematical Statistician at US Census Bureau, Washington DC
Min Sook Park, PhD Graduate, School of Information, Florida State University
- 08/2015 - 12/2015, Graduate Research Assistant
- Topic: Analysis of Medical Vocabulary Coverage on Health-Related Social Media
- Publications (N=2): JMIR Med Inform 2017, iConference 2016
- First Employment: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

MS Degree Graduates

Alex Moerschbacher, MSIT Graduate, School of Information, Florida State University
- 06/2020 - 04/2021, MSIT student advisee
- Publications (N=1): SEPDA 2021
- First Employment: Software Developer at General Motors
Yu Lu, Specialist Student, School of Information, Florida State University
- 06/2020 - 08/2021, Specialist student advisee
- Publications (N=4): MEDINFO 2019, AMIA 2020, JMIR 2020, iConference 2021
- First Employment: Software Developer at DOBI Medical International, Inc. Zhejiang, China
Laura Barrett, Specialist Student, School of Information, Florida State University
- 06/2018 - 08/2019, Master student, Doctoral student, Specialist student advisee
- Publications (N=4): AMIA 2019 Informatics Summit, MEDINFO 2019, AMIA 2020 Informatics Summit, PLOS ONE 2022
Xiang Tang, MS Graduate, Department of Statistics, Florida State University
- 11/2018 - 12/2019, Research Assistant
- Topic: Assessing the Generalizability of Clinical Trials / Biostatistician
- Publications (N=3): Sleep Health 2020, JMIR 2019, AMIA 2020 Informatics Summit
- First Employment: Associate Statistical Programmer at Boehringer Ingelheim
Zhiwei Chen, MS in Computer Science, Florida State University
- 08/2015 - 08/2017, Graduate Research Assistant (MS Thesis Committee Member)
- Topic: Natural Language Processing on Biomedical and Social Media Text
- Publications (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, Evie Labs, Palo Alto, CA
- Current employment: Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Roku Inc, Los Gatos, CA

Collaborators

Dr. Cui Tao, Professor and Chair, Department of Artificial Intelligence and Informatics, Mayo Clinic (2018 -)
Dr. Jinfeng Zhang, Professor, Department of Statistics, Florida State University (2017 -)
Dr. Xiuwen Liu, Professor, Department of Computer Science, Florida State University (2017 -)
Dr. Henry Carretta, Assistant Professor, College of Medicine, Florida State University (2016 - )
Dr. Jove Hou, Assistant Professor, School of Communication, Florida State University (2016 - )
Dr. Rui Zhang, Associate Professor, Department of Surgery & Institute for Health Informatics, University of Minnesota (2016 -)
Dr. Sanghee Oh, Assistant Professor, School of Information, Florida State University (2015 - )
Dr. Jiang Bian, Professor, Department of Health Outcomes and Policy, University of Florida (2015 -)
Dr. Ida Sim, Professor, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (2014 -)
Dr. Patrick Ryan, Senior Director and Head, Janssen Research and Development (2014 - )
Dr. Huanying Gu, Associate Professor, New York Institute of Technology (2012 - )
Dr. Gai Elhanan, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Halfpenny Technologies (2009 - )

Mentors

Dr. Neil Charness, Professor, Department of Psychology, Florida State University (2015 - , Faculty Mentor)
Dr. Mia Lustria, Professor, School of Information, Florida State University (2015 - , Faculty Mentor)
Dr. Chunhua Weng, Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University (2014 - 2015, Postdoc Advisor)
Dr. James Geller, Professor, Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology (2009 - 2014, PhD Advisor)
Dr. Yehoshua Perl, Professor, Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology (2009 - 2014, PhD Advisor)