Throughout my career, I have dedicated myself to integrating service, research, and teaching to achieve my mission of becoming an influential academic. I actively incorporate my research into my teaching to enhance the educational experience and foster a deeper understanding of the subject matter. To cultivate a welcoming and synergistic research environment in health informatics at FSU, I founded the eHealth Lab, where I invested significant time and effort as its director. Through the eHealth Lab, I organize regular meetings with students from the iSchool and other departments at FSU, facilitating interdisciplinary discussions and collaborative research on health and biomedical informatics. My mentoring philosophy is anchored in the belief that my students’ achievements are a direct reflection of our collective efforts and dedication. Notably, my PhD student mentees are not only from the iSchool but also from other departments at FSU, including Statistics, Computer Science, and Applied Mathematics.Â
I am looking forward to meeting highly 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".
Postdoctoral Scholars/ Visiting Assistant Professor
Balu Bhasuran, PhD
08/2024 - present: Visiting Assistant Professor
07/2023 - 8/2024: Postdoctoral Research FellowÂ
Topic: Biomedical Deep learning and Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models, EHR Predictive ModellingÂ
Daniel Leme, PhD
05/2025 - present: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Topic: Gerontology and Public Health, Frailty Prediction
Application Developer / Web Developer
Dhruv Kale, MS
03/2024 - Present
Dr. He's role: Supervisor
Responsibility: Lead Developer of LabGenie, Web Developer for the Institute for Successful Longevity
PhD Students
Forhan Bin Emdad, PhD Candidate, School of Information, Florida State UniversityÂ
08/2021 - present
Topic: Trustworthy AI and Explainable AI I in medicine
Dr. He's role: Chair of the Dissertation Committee
Yuanying Pang, PhD Candidate, School of Information, Florida State UniversityÂ
08/2022 - present
Topic: Adoption of AI-based digital health interventions
Dr. He's role: Chair of the Dissertation Committee
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
Dr. He's role: Co-Chair of the Dissertation Committee
Aejin Lee, PhD student, School of Information, Florida State University
06/2024 - present
Topic: TBD
Dr. He's role: Chair of the Dissertation Committee
Jiwoo Seo, PhD student, School of Information, Florida State University
06/2025 - present
Topic: TBD
Dr. He's role: First-Year Advisor
Undergraduate Students
Preetam Chamkura, October 2024 – April 2025
Victoria Valko, October 2024 – April 2025
Luis Sanchez, October 2024 – April 2025
Harjith Pradeep, October 2024 – April 2025
Yash Alva, October 2023 – April 2024
Caroline Bennett, October 2023 – April 2024
Angelique Deville, October 2023 – April 2024
Hailey Thompson, October 2023 – April 2024
Khoa Dao, October 2022 – April 2023
Akhil Shiju, October 2020 – May 2022
Stephanie Carmenates, October 2021 – April 2022
Madelyn Dupuis, October 2021 – April 2022
David Garner, October 2021 – April 2022
Neissa Philemon, October 2021 – April 2022
Shawntah Thomas, October 2021 – April 2022
Jessica Valyou, October 2021 – April 2022
Doctoral Degree Graduates
Wenshan Han, PhD Graduate, Department of StatisticsÂ
9/2023 - 05/2024, Collaborating student (Dissertation Committee Member)
Topic: Modeling of the seasonality of lab tests using EHR data
Publications (N=2): AMIA 2024, BMC Medical Research MethodologyÂ
First Employment: Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Arizona College of Public Health
Current Position: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth
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 processingÂ
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 UniversityÂ
2020 - 2022, Collaborating student (Dissertation Committee Member)
Topic: Meta-analysis for biomedical and translational research
First Employment: Senior Biostistical Scientist, Merck & Co.Â
Publications (N=6): JAMIA Open 2021, JMIR 2020-1, JMIR 2020-2, ICHI 2021, AMIA 2021 Informatics Summit, PLOS One 2022
First Employment: Merck & Co.Â
Neelufar Payrovnaziri, PhD Graduate, School of Information, Florida State University
3/2018 - 12/2021, Doctoral student advisee (Major professor)Â
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 UniversityÂ
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
Current Position: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Florida State University
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 2021Â
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
First Employment: Florida Department of Health
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
High School Interns
Brayden Lopez
06/2025 - 07/2025, Research Intern at FSU Young Scholars ProgramÂ
College Acceptance: Pending
Diana Cho
06/2025 - 07/2025, Research Intern at FSU Young Scholars ProgramÂ
College Acceptance: Pending
Wade RogersÂ
06/2024 - 07/2024, Research Intern at FSU Young Scholars ProgramÂ
College Acceptance: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Computer Science)
Hansita Penikalapati
06/2024 - 07/2024, Research Intern at FSU Young Scholars ProgramÂ
College Acceptance: Carnegie Mellon University (Computer Science); Duke University
Dr. Neil Charness, Professor, Department of Psychology, Florida State University (2015 - 2024, Faculty Mentor)
Dr. Mia Lustria, Professor, School of Information, Florida State University (2015 - 2025, 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)