Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Southern Methodist University
Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, LLM, Artificial Intelligence, AI for Health.
May, 2025: Our paper "Assessment and Integration of Large Language Models for Automated Electronic Health Record Documentation in Emergency Medical Services" is accepted by Journal of Medical Systems.
Apr., 2025: Our paper "The Role of Glycemic Control and Symptoms and Symptom Clusters in Breast Cancer Survivors with Type 2 Diabetes" is accepted by Supportive Care in Cancer.
Mar., 2025: One paper got accepted as long paper by IEEE ICHI 2025.
Mar., 2025: Two papers got accepted as full paper by the 20th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics: MedInfo 2025.
Feb., 2025: Our paper "Assessing the Effectiveness of Automatic Speech Recognition Technology in Emergency Medicine Settings: A Comparative Study of Four AI-powered Engines" is accepted by Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research.
Feb., 2025: Our paper "Clinical Decision Support for Patient Cases with Asymptomatic Carotid Artery Stenosis using Artificial Intelligence models and Electronic Medical Records" is accepted by Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease.
Jan., 2025: Our paper "Factors associated with abusive head trauma in young children presenting to emergency medical services using a large language model" is accepted by Prehospital Emergency Care. Congratulations to Tahabi!
Jan., 2025: Our paper "Enhancing Prehospital Decision-Making: Exploring User Needs and Design Considerations for Clinical Decision Support Systems" is accepted by BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making.
Dec., 2024: Our paper "Assessing Personalized AI Mentoring with Large Language Models in the Computing Field" is accepted by 2025 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Natural Language Processing and Social Media. Congratulations to Sean!
Oct., 2024: Our paper "Integrating data-driven and knowledge-driven approaches to analyze clinical notes with structured data for sarcopenia detection" is accepted by Health Informatics Journal.
Sept., 2024: The collaborative project "AI-Driven Chatbot to Navigate Cognitive Care Plan for Persons with AD/ADRD" with BrainCheck, University of Iowa and University of Pennsylvania, has been selected as a finalist by the a2 Pilot Awards.
Jun., 2024: Glad to be part of the National Library of Medicine funded project "Design and Development of an Evidence-based Cognitive Aid for Out-of-Hospital Treatment of Pediatric Patients" to work with Pace University and University of Colorado.
Jun., 2024: Our paper "Identifying Clinical Feature Clusters Towards Predicting Stroke in Patients with Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis " is accepted by International Journal of Data Science and Analytics. Congratulations to David and Sanaz - NSF REU students!
Jun., 2024: Our paper "Zero-shot learning to extract assessment criteria and medical services from the preventive healthcare guidelines using Large Language Models" is accepted by JAMIA.
May, 2024: Our paper "Benchmarking Large Language Models for Log Analysis, Security, and Interpretation" is accepted by Journal of Network and Systems Management.
May, 2024: Glad to receive an invitation from NIH to become a reviewer.
Mar., 2024: Glad to be part of the funded AHRQ project team LabGenie: A Patient-Engagement Tool to Aid Older Adults' Understanding of Lab Test Results (R21HS029969)
Mar., 2024: Our paper is accepted by Annals of Telecommunications.
Jan., 2024: Our paper is accepted by Journal of Vascular Surgery.
Nov., 2023: Glad to receive an invitation from NSF to become a panelist.
Oct., 2023: Our paper is accepted by IEEE Big Data 2023. Congratulations to Neel and Ansh!
Aug., 2023: Our journal paper "Using Machine Learning to Detect Sarcopenia from Electronic Health Records" is accepted by Digital Health.
Mar., 2023: Two papers are accepted by FLAIRS 2023.
Congratulations to Tahabi and Behafarid!
Dec., 2022: Our paper is accepted by ACM SAC 2023 as full research paper.
Congratulations to Tahabi!
Sep., 2022: Our paper is accepted to the main conference of AACL-IJCNLP 2022.
Congratulations to Haoran!
May, 2022: Our paper is accepted by DEXA 2022 as full research paper.
Congratulations to Alvaro!
May, 2022: We received iAI seed funding for our project "Predicting stroke and identifying high risk factors in patients with asymptomatic carotid stenosis (ACS)" (Role: PI)
Thanks to Institute of Integrative AI of IUPUI!
Mar., 2022: Our paper "Informative Causality Extraction from Medical Literature via Dependency-tree based Patterns" is accepted by Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research.
Nov., 2021: Our paper "Hands-Free Electronic Documentation in Emergency Care Work through Smart Glasses" is accepted by iConference 2022 as full research paper.
Congratulations to Susanna!
Oct., 2021: Our paper " A Deep Language Model for Symptom Extraction from Clinical Text and Its Application to Extract COVID-19 symptoms from Social Media" is accepted by IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.
Congratulations to Priyanka!
Sep., 2021: Excited to receive an R15 grant from National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
entitled "A personalized preventive care recommendation system by integrating guidelines with the EHR data." (Role: PI).
Thanks to NIH/NIGMS!
Sep., 2021: Our paper is accepted by IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.
Congratulations to Priyanka!
Aug., 2021: Our paper is accepted by Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine (Elsevier).
Congratulations to Priyanka!
Aug., 2021: Our paper is accepted to the main conference of EMNLP 2021.
Congratulations to Haoran!
Jul., 2021: Our paper is accepted by ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare.
Congratulations to Haoran!
Jun., 2021: Our paper is accepted by DaWaK 2021.
Congratulations to Jithesh!
Jun., 2021: Our paper is accepted by IEEE BHI.
Congratulations to Sahil!
Jun., 2021: Our paper is accepted by ACM BCB 2021 as full research paper.
Congratulations to Sara!
Feb., 2021: Our paper is accepted by Health Informatics Journal.
Jan., 2021: Our paper is accepted by Journal of Vascular Surgery.
Jan., 2021: Our paper is accepted by Knowledge-Based System (Elsevier).
Congratulations to Amir!
Jan., 2021: We are invited to extend our paper ``Improving Student Global, International, and Intercultural Competencies via Disciplinary International Collaborative Experiences'' for FIE IEEE Transaction on Education Special Issue: 50 Years of Engineering Education Research.
Dec., 2020: Our paper is accepted by IEEE BIBM 2020.
Congratulations to Haoran, Matthew and Priyanka!
Aug., 2020: One paper is accepted as full research paper by AMIA 2020.
Congratulations to Yu and Haoran!
May., 2020: Our paper is accepted by IEEE IJCNN 2020.
Congratulations to Amir!
May., 2020: Two papers are accepted by IEEE FIE 2020.
Let's integrate research into education!
Mar., 2020: Our paper is accepted by IEEE BDS 2020.
Congratulations to Kabir!
Sep., 2019: Our paper ``Identifying Symptom Clusters in Breast Cancer and Colorectal Cancer Patients using EHR Data'' received best paper award at ACM BCB conference!
Aug., 2019: I am looking for PhD and MS students to work on health informatics, deep learning, information retrieval and NLP projects.
Jul., 2019: Our paper ``Modeling Vehicle-Pedestrian Encountering Risks in the Natural Driving Environment using Machine Learning Algorithms'' received best paper award at HCI conference!
Apr., 2018: Congratulations to Setu for receiving internship offer from Microsoft Research
Jan., 2018: Two papers are accepted by IEEE BHI. Congratulations to Gulzhahan for receiving the IEEE BHI Conference Student Travel Award to support her trip to present our paper.
Nov., 2017: Our paper is accepted by IEEE HealthCom. Congratulations to Setu for receiving IUPUI Travel Fellowship Award to support his trip to present our paper at IEEE Healthcom.