Talks

Invited Seminar/Webinar Talks 

1. Zhe He. "Using Informatics and Generative AI to Support Patients' Understanding of Lab Test Results". OneFlorida+ Clinical Research Consortium.  April 2024. 

2. Zhe He. "Harnessing Explainable, Equitable, and Actionable AI to Improve Health". University of California at San Diego Department of Biomedical Informatics, February 2024

3. Zhe He. "Using Informatics and Generative AI to Support Patients' Understanding of Lab Test Results". National Institutes of Health (Text Mining and Natural Language Processing Special Interest Group), January 2024.  (NIH Videocast link)

4. Zhe He. "Using Informatics and AI to Support Patients' Comprehension of Lab Test Results". FSU Insitute for Successful Longevity. January 2024. 

5. Zhe He. "Harnessing Explainable, Equitable, and Actionable AI to Improve Health". Moffitt Cancer Center, November 2023.

6. Zhe He. "Harnessing Explainable, Equitable, and Actionable AI to Improve Health". FSU Machine Learning Expo. April 2023.  [Recording]

7. Zhe He.  "Harnessing the Power of Artificial Intelligence to Transform Precision Health". UT Austin Precision Health (T32) Methodology Summer Boot Camp. August 2022

8. Zhe He. "Data-Driven Clinical Trial Generalizability Optimization". UF CTSI LHS and AI Symposium, March 2021.

9. Zhe He. "Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Predicting Health Outcomes". UF CTSI LHS and AI Symposium, February 2021.

10. Zhe He. "Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Impact, Challenges, and Risks". Florida State University, June 2020.  [Video] 

11. Zhe He. "Introduction to OneFlorida Data Trust and i2b2 Platform for Cohort Discovery". Florida State University, April 2020. [Video]

12. Zhe He. "Health Informatics Projects in the eHealth Lab". Research Colloquium at School of Information, Florida State University. October 2019. [Video]

13. Zhe He. "Mortality Prediction for Patients with Myocardial Infarction". FSU 2019 Machine Learning Expo  (MLx19). April 2019.  [Video]

14. Zhe He. "Too Much Medical Jargon for Patients? - Assessing the Language Gap Between Health Professionals and Consumers". Institute for Successful Longevity, Florida State University. November 2018. [Video]

15. Zhe He. "Optimizing Clinical Research Participant Selection Design with Informatics." Invited Research  Talk at Professional Seminars of Department of Statistics, Florida State University. September 2018

16. Zhe He. "Semantic-Powered Health Data Mining and Analytics."  FSU 2018 Machine Learning Expo (MLx18). April 2018.  [Recording]

17. Zhe He. "Optimizing Clinical Study Eligibility Criteria Design with Informatics." Invited Talk at Real-World Evidence Research Group at Eli Lilly & Company. October 2017

18. Zhe He. "Optimizing Clinical Study Eligibility Criteria Design with Informatics." Invited Research Colloquium Talk at Department of Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics, University of Florida. October 2017

19. Zhe He. "Ontology-Based Analysis of Clinical Research Eligibility Criteria". Research Colloquium at School of Information, Florida State University. December 2016.

20. Zhe He. "Optimizing Clinical Research Participant Selection Design with Informatics." Invited Research Colloquium Talk at Department of Scientific Computing, Florida State University. October 2016

21. Zhe He. "Where are the older volunteers?" Institute for Successful Longevity, Florida State University, April 2016

22. Zhe He. "Leverage Social Media to Enrich Consumer Health Vocabulary," School of Information, Florida State University, April 2016 [Video]

23. Zhe He. "Case Studies in Clinical Research Informatics," Guest lecture (50 min) at HINF 5431 "Health Informatics II" (Instructor: Dr. Rui Zhang), Institute for Health Informatics, University of Minnesota, February 2016

24. Zhe He. "Ontology-enhanced Data Analytics," Research colloquium (60 min) at School of Information Research Retreat, Florida State University, November 2015. [Video]

25. Zhe He. "Health Data Analytics." Guest lecture (70 min) at "LIS 4785 Introduction to Health Informatics" (Instructor: Dr. Sanghee Oh), School of Information, Florida State University, October 2015.

26. Zhe He. "A comparative analysis of the density of the SNOMED CT conceptual content for semantic harmonization," Invited Webinar Talk at the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) Implementation SIG Meeting (40 min), September 2015. [Slides] [Video]

27. Zhe He. "Analyzing Collective Population Representativeness of Related Clinical Trials." Research colloquium (50 min) at Department of Computer Science, Rowan University, February 2015

28. Zhe He. "Analyzing Collective Population Representativeness of Related Clinical Trials," Research colloquium (25 min) at School of Information, Florida State University, February 2015 

29. Zhe He. "Introduction to the UMLS and Auditing of the UMLS Refined Semantic Network," Guest lecture (120 min) "Medical Informatics" (Instructor: Dr. Duo Wei), Stockton University, Galloway, NJ, November 2013.

30. Zhe He. "Quality Assurance of Biomedical Ontologies and Terminologies based on Abstraction Networks," Guest lecture (90 min) G4003: "Symbolic Methods in Biomedical Informatics" (Instructor: Dr. Chunhua Weng), Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, NY, October 2013. 

Panel Talk

1. Zhe He, Duo Wei, Jiang Bian, Jianlin Liu, and Yang Gong. Advancing Health Informatics Education and Health IT Workforce Development through Interdisciplinary Collaboration. The 16th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics (MEDINFO 2017). August 23, 2017. Hangzhou, China.

2.  Chunhua Weng, Zhe He, Joseph Romano "Data-Driven Clinical Research Generalizability Assessment and Improvement." The 8th Mid-Atlantic Health Informatics Symposium, October 23, 2015. Philadelphia, PA 

Conference Talks

1. Zhe He. Exploratory Textual Analysis of Consumer Health Languages for People Who are D/deaf and Hard of Hearing. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine. November 13, 2017. Kansas City, MO. [PDF]

2. Zhe He. An Exploration of Semantic Relations in Neural Word Embeddings Using Extrinsic Knowledge. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine. November 13, 2017. Kansas City, MO. [PDF]

3. Zhe He. Auditing the Assignments of Top-Level Semantic Types in the UMLS Semantic Network to UMLS Concepts. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine. November 13, 2017. Kansas City, MO. [PDF]

4. Zhe He. Comparing and Contrasting A Priori and A Posteriori Generalizability Assessment of Clinical Trials on Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. American Medical Informatics Association 2017 Annual Symposium (AMIA 2017). November 7, 2017. Washington DC. [PDF] (Acceptance rate: 39%) (Distinguished Paper Award of AMIA 2017 Annual Symposium; three awards were selected from 105 accepted paper and 266 paper submissions) [Live Picture] [CCI News]

5. Zhe He. "Perceiving the Usefulness of National Cancer Institute Metathesaurus for Enriching NCIt with Topological Patterns." The 16th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics (MEDINFO 2017). August 23, 2017. Hangzhou, China.

6. Zhe He. "Analysis of Temporal Constraints in Qualitative Eligibility Criteria of Cancer Clinical Studies." 2016 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2016). December 15-18, 2016. Shenzhen, China.

7. Zhe He. "Topological-Pattern-based Recommendation of UMLS Concepts for National Cancer Institute Thesaurus."  AMIA 2016 Annual Symposium. November 2016. Chicago, IL. (Slides)

8. Zhe He. "Assessing the Population Representativeness of Colorectal Cancer Treatment Clinical Trials." The 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2016). August 18, 2016. Orlando, FL. [Picture]

9. Zhe He. "UMLS-Based Analysis of Medical Terminology Coverage for Tags in Diabetes-Related Blogs." iConference 2016.  March 22, 2016. Philadelphia, PA. (Runner up of the Most Interesting Preliminary Results Paper Award) (Slides)

10. Zhe He. "Simulation-based Evaluation of the Generalizability Index for Study Traits." AMIA 2015 Annual Symposium. November 16, 2015. San Francisco, CA. (Distinguished Paper Award of AMIA 2015 Annual Symposium) (Slides)

11. Zhe He. "Assessing the Population Representativeness of Type 2 Diabetes Trials by Combining Public Data from ClinicalTrials.gov and NHANES." The 15th World Congress on Health and Biomedical Informatics (MEDINFO 2015), August 2015, Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Prepared by Zhe. Given by Gregory Hruby on behalf of Zhe) [Presentation Video] (Nominee of Student Paper Award) 

12. Zhe He. "Recommending New Target Conditions for Drug Retesting Using Temporal Patterns in Clinical Trials." AMIA 2015 Joint Summits on Translational Science, March 2015, San Francisco, CA. (Slides) (Nominee of Student Paper Award) 

13. Zhe He. "A Method for Assessing the Collective Generalizability of Multiple Related Clinical Trials Using Public Data." AMIA 2015 Joint Summits on Translational Science, March, 2015, San Francisco, CA. (Slides) 

14. Zhe He. "A Method for Analyzing Commonalities in Clinical Trial Target Populations." AMIA 2014 Annual Symposium (AMIA 2014), November 19, 2014, Washington DC. (Slides)

15. Zhe He. "Categorizing the Relationship between Structurally Congruent Concepts from Pairs of Terminologies for Semantic Harmonization." 2014 AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science, April 8, 2014, San Francisco, CA. (Slides) 

16. Zhe He. "A Family-Based Framework for Supporting Quality Assurance of Biomedical Ontologies in BioPortal." AMIA 2013 Annual Symposium, November 17, 2013, Washington D.C. (Slides) (Paper selection for "Ontology" in 2014 Informatics Year in Review) 

17. Zhe He. "Auditing Redundant Import in Reuse of a Top Level Ontology for the Drug Discovery Investigations Ontology." The 4th International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2013), July 7, 2013, Montreal, QC, Canada. (Slides)

18. Zhe He. "Clinical Clarity versus Terminological Order - The Readiness of SNOMED CT Concept Descriptors for Primary Care." The 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012), October 29, 2012, Maui, HI . (Slides)

19. Zhe He. "Questionable Relationship Triples in the UMLS." 2012 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI 2012), January 7, 2012, Shenzhen, China. (Slides)