Team
Project Co-Leads
Zhe He, PhD, FAMIA (Contact PI; Data Science Lead)
Associate Professor, School of Information, Florida State University
Core Affiliate, Institute for Successful Longevity, Florida State University
Areas of Research: Biomedical Informatics, Clinical Research Informatics, Consumer Health Informatics, Machine Learning
Responsibilities: Project management; Data Analytics; Algorithm development; AI; Financial; Reporting
Mia Lustria, PhD (MPI; Human Factors Lead)
Professor, School of Information, Florida State University
Core Affiliate, Institute for Successful Longevity, Florida State University
Areas of Research: Consumer Health Informatics, Health Communication, eHealth Intervention
Responsibilities: Experimental design; Human factor
Co-Investigators
Zhan Zhang, PhD
Associate Professor, Pace University
Areas of Research: Human-Computer Interaction; Health Informatics
Responsibilities: User-centered design; Design workshops; Interactive interface design
Xiao Luo, PhD
Associate Professor, Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University
Areas of Research: Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Health Informatics
Responsibilities: Information retrieval; Key phrase extraction; Large language model finetuning
Michael Killian, PhD, MSW
Associate Professor, College of Social Work, Florida State University
Areas of Research: Health outcomes; Measurement development; Quantitative research methodology
Responsibilities: Sample size calculation/Power analysis; Data analysis
Henna Budhwani, PhD, MPH
Professor, College of Nursing, Florida State University
Areas of Research: Implementation Science, Stigma Reduction, HIV Prevention, Mental Health, Innovative Clinical and Pragmatic Trials, Community Engaged Action-Oriented Research, Global Development, mHealth and Digital Health
Responsibilities: Implementation science of digital health intervention; Evaluation
Medical Expert Consultants
Karim Hanna, MD
Program Director, College of Medicine Family Medicine, University of South Florida
Associate Professor, TCOP Dept of Pharmacy Practice
Areas of Research: Family Medicine; Clinical Informatics
Lisa Granville, MD
Professor of Geriatrics and Interim Chair
Department of Geriatrics, College of Medicine, Florida State University
Expertise: Geriatric Medicine
Postdoc Scholar / Data Scientist
Balu Bhasuran, PhD
Postdoc Scholar, School of Information, Florida State University
Areas of Research: Machine Learning; Electronic Health Record Modeling; Natural Language Processing; Information Extraction
Responsibilities: Implementation of question generation module and evaluation of large language models
Application Developer
Application Developer Consultants
Graduate Research Assistants/Volunteers
PhD Student, Department of Statistics, Florida State University
Responsibilities: Implementation of the LabGenie tool; Large language model application and evaluation
PhD Student, Department of Statistics, Florida State University
Responsibilities: Biostatistical Analysis, EHR Data Modeling
MS Student, Department of Computer Science, Florida State University
Responsibilities: Implementation of the visualization module
Undergraduate Assistants
Angelique Deville
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Department of Biological Sciences, Florida State University
Responsibilities: Data curation
Hailey Thompson
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Department of Computer Science, Florida State University
Responsibilities: Data curation
Collaborators / AI Experts
Zhiyong Lu, PhD, FACMI, FIAHSI
Senior Investigator, NIH/NLM
Deputy Director for Literature Search, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Library of Medicine, NIH
Professor of Computer Science (Adjunct), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Expertise: Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval
Qiao Jin, MD
Postdoc Researcher, NIH/NLM
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Library of Medicine, NIH
Expertise: Biomedical Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval
Advisory Panel
Neil Charness, PhD
William G. Chase Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology, Florida State University
Expertise: Human factors, Technologies for older adults
Jing Wang, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN
Professor and Dean
College of Nursing, Florida State University
Expertise: Digital Health, Aging, Clinical Trials, Lifestyle Intervention, Precision Health, Health Equity, Multiple Chronic Conditions
Dawn Carr, PhD
Professor and Director of the Claude Pepper Center
College of Social Sciences and Public Policy, Florida State University
Expertise: Health and Aging, Volunteering, Work/Retirement, Caregiving
Yang Gong, MD, PhD, FIAHSI
Associate Professor
School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Expertise: Biomedical Informatics, Patient Safety, Clinical Decision Support
AHRQ Program Officer
Stephanie Pitts, PhD
Health Scientist Administrator in Digital Healthcare Research
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Expertise: Preventive Medicine
Team Structure