Health Analytics Research Team (HEART)

Mission and Goals

The overarching goal of the research lab is to (1) to mitigate the substantial information gap between physicians and patients through the development of innovative technologies and tools, and (2) to enhance the quality of medical and health informatics research by integrating diverse data resources, developing data-driven methodologies, analyzing social networks, and combining artificial intelligence and ontological approaches.

Current Team members

Goyal, Riya

Research Team Advisor(s)

Dr. Duo (Helen) Wei

Joseph Morales

Dr. Vincent Cicirello

Kiminsky, Keith Group Photo

Bianca Hernandez

Group Videos

Past Members

Kopp, Trevor Champagne, Randy

Guerini, Giuseppe

Rubio, Steven

Runyon, Steven

Khullar, Karan

Davis, Joshua

Collier, Jake (2021), Current Employer: Noblis

Mykola Hubchak (2021), Current Employer: Lockheed Martin

Hayek, Brendan, Current Employer: Annexus Health

Nhi Lam (2017), Current Employer: Vanguard

Arron Burrows (2017), Current Employer: Federal Aviation Administration

Tiara Campbell (2014), Current Employer: University of Pennsylvania

Updates (Co-Authored Publications)

Wei, D., Elmasri, J, Hernandez, B, Goyal, R., Burdick, D., Exploring the landscape of generative AI and large language model (LLM) in Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Research. Submitted to Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Annual Scientific Meeting 2024, Seattle WA, November 13-16.
Wei, D., Morales, J., Burdick, D., Intergenerational workshop to empower older adults in smart technologies. Submitted to Gerontological Society of America (GSA) Annual Scientific Meeting 2024, Seattle WA, November 13-16.
Wei D, Bianca H, Burdick D., Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health for the Aging Population: A Scoping Review. Innovation in Aging. 2023 Dec 21; 7(Suppl 1): 805. doi: 10.1093/geroni/igad104.2598. PMCID: PMC10738363.
Wei, D., Kiminsky, K., Hamill, P., Nguyen, Q.(2023). Involving Undergraduates into Health Informatics Research via Project-Based Learning Classes – A Case Study, 2023 IEEE 11th International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI), Houston, TX, USA, 2023 pp. 668-672. doi: 10.1109/ICHI57859.2023.00116.
Wei D, Prakash S, Goyal R, Zhang R. Does COVID-19 affect mental health and substance use in young adults?. J Edu Health Promot [serial online] 2023 [cited 2023 Jul 12];12:108. Available from: https://www.jehp.net//text.asp?2023/12/1/108/372833
Runyon S, Guerini G, Collier J, Starnes J, Wei D, Application of Data Mining to Drug-Drug Interaction, Accepted to Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges - Northeastern, Virtual Conference (due to COVID-19), 2020
Khullar K, Champagnue R, Hayek B, Wei D, Preprocessing Pipeline for Analysing Tweets about Mental Health, Accepted to Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges - Northeastern, Virtual Conference (due to COVID-19), 2020
Wei, D., Burrows, A., (2016) Tracking students' performance to assess correlations among computer science programming series courses, Journal of Computing. Sciences in Colleges. vol. 32 (1), pp. 9-16
Wei, D., Campbell,T. (2014) A similarity measurement of clinical trials using SNOMED - A preliminary study. The 2014 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS), pp.457-460; Minneapolis, MN.