In the News

• Our $12.6 Million Award was featured by Vital Record, allowing us to continue our work evaluating Medicaid and its impact on low-income Texans 

• School of Public Health Study is First to Look at Frequent Emergency Room Visits in Multiple States over Multiple Years

• Michelle Hayek's paper comparing at-home blood pressure monitoring with traditional clinic-based monitoring was highlighted on TAMU Engineering's news website!

• Dr. Kum cochair the Digital Ethology Ernst Strüngmann forum (Forum is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the German Research Foundation). Book in print by MIT press (summer 2024).

• Hye-Chung Kum inducted as a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association

• TEES awards seed grant funding for Big Data and cybersecurity research

• Vital Records: TAMHSC Newsletter

• Today: TAMU Newsletter

Faculty

Director

• Hye-Chung Kum : School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management; Department of Computer Science & Engineering; Department of Industrial Systems & Engineering

Co Director

• Eva Shipp: School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Associate Director

• Cason Schmit: Texas A&M, Department of Health Policy and Management

Key Collaborators

• Bobak Mortazavi: College of Engineering, Department of Computer Science & Engineering 

• William M. Sage: Texas A&M, Department of Health Policy and Management

• Mahin Ramezani: Center for Transportation Safety, Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI)

• Mark Lawley: College of Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering & Department of Biomedical Engineering

• Robert Ohsfeldt: Texas A&M, Department of Health Policy and Management

• Christine Blackburn: Texas A&M, Department of Health Policy and Management

• Hannah Rochford: Texas A&M, Department of Health Policy and Management

• Qi Zheng: Texas A&M, Department of Epidemiology & Statistics

• Dennis Gorman: Texas A&M, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Members:

• Daniel Marthey, Texas A&M, Department of Health Policy and Management 

• Kuan-Hao Huang: College of Engineering, Department of Computer Science & Engineering 

• Frank Shipman, College of Engineering, Department of Computer Science & Engineering 

• Sherecce Fields, Texas A&M, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences

• Carl Tong: Texas A&M, College of Medicine

• Meredith Williamson, Texas A&M, College of Medicine

• Jenna Yentes, Texas A&M, Department of Kinesiology & Sport Management

• Keegan Warren, Texas A&M, Law School & Institute for Healthcare Access

• Hannah Bloch-Wehba, Texas A&M, School of Law

Other

• Michele Weigle : Old Dominion University, Department of Computer Science

Students & Post-Doc

Public Health Students

• PhD Alumni

  • Theodoros Giannouchos: Assistant Professor at the Department of Health Policy & Organization, University of Alabama at Birmingham

  • Mohammad Karim: Assistant Professor, Department of Healthcare Administration and Policy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas 

  • Nikita Wagle: Principal Scientist, Surveillance and Health Equity Science, American Cancer Society 

  • Debra Tan: VA Research Associate

  • Yuxian Du: Postdoctoral Fellow, at Bayer

• MPH Alumni

  • Yong Choi: PhD program at University of Washington

  • Kobi Ajayi: PhD program at Texas A&M University

CS Students

• Abhishek Kumar Singh (MSDS)

• Joshua Immanuel Vemana (MSDS)

• Dhruvraj Singh Rathore (MSDS)

• Suhu Lavu (BS)

• Alumni

  • Mahin Ramezan (MS): TTI

  • Gurudev Ilangovan (MS): Capital One

  • Qinbo Li (PhD)

  • Han Wang (PhD)

  • Jain Prannay (MS)

  • Vishwas Siravara (MS)

  • Yumei Li (BS)

  • Johnny Yoon (BS)

  • Haiwei Chen (BS)

Industrial Engineering Students

• Alumni

  • Michele Hayek (PhD): Data and AI Consultant, Impact Advisors 

  • Sulki Park (PhD): Biostatistician, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health

  • Doowon (PhD)

  • Pulkit Jain (MS)

Staff

• Seoyoon Lee

• Ashley Forsman 

• Jacob Hooper

• Jonathon Lowe

Texas A&M Center for Remote Healthcare Technology Collaborators

• Gerard L. Cote: Texas A&M, Department of Industrial Engineering & Department of Biomedical Engineering

• Associate Director of Statistical Methods (Dr. Bobak J. Mortazavi, Center for Remote Health Technologies and Systems and Texas A&M Department of Computer Science and Engineering)

Texas A&M University ViDaL Collaborators 

• Privacy Officer: John Pryde

• Associate Director of Facility & Computing (Dr. Honggao Liu, High Performance Research Computing)

• Jessica Bernard: director of the Lifespan Cognitive and Motor Neuroimaging Laboratory.

Past Collaborations

Texas A&M

• David Washburn: Texas A&M, Department of Health Policy and Management

• Itza Mendoza:  Texas A&M, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health  

• Joseph Sharkey: Texas A&M, Department of Health Promotion and Community Health Sciences 

• Dr. Mark Fossett, Texas Research Data Center and Texas A&M Department of Sociology)

Texas Transportation Institute

• Amber Trueblood

Diabetes Health and Wellness Institute (DHWI) Collaborators

• Charles E. Bell, M.D., M.S.

UNC-CH RENCI (Renaissance Computing Institute) Collaborators

• Arcot Rajasekar, chief scientist at RENCI & professor at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS)

• Ketan Mane

• Sharlini Sankaran, executive director, REACH NC/RENCI

• Howard Lander, senior research software developer

UNC-CH Population Center Collaborators: Faculty/Staff

• Barry Popkin (UNC Food Research Group)

• Shu Wen Ng (UNC Food Research Group)

UNC-CH Odum Institute Collaborators: Faculty/Staff

• Thomas W. Carsey

• Jon Crabtree

UNC-CH School of Social Work Collaborators: Faculty/Staff

• Dean Duncan

• Kim Flair

• Joy Stewart

• Jennie Vaughn

• Harlene Gogan

• Cyrette Cotten-Fleming

UNC-CH School of Public Health Collaborators: Faculty/Staff

• Dorthy Cilenti

• Marisa Domino

• Shirley Richards

• Marianne Hillemeier (Pennsylvania State University)

• Tim Whitmire (Center for Health Statistics, NC-DHHS)

Previous Post-Doc

• Michelle Mellers

Previous Students

CS Students

• Darshana Pathak (dpathak at cs dot unc dot edu): SAS, Cary

• Ren Bauer (rabauer at email dot unc dot edu): Automated Insights, Durham

• Ian Sang-June Kim (iankim at unc dot edu)

• Gautam Sanka (gausanka at gmail dot com)

• Dennis Given(dgiven at live dot unc dot edu)

• Jordan Reese (jsreese at live dot unc dot edu)

• Zhaoyu Zhang

• Wei Cheng

• Shunping Huang

• Nirup Reddy

• Loreli Evans

• Wilson Lian

• David Brandl

SW students

• Chung-Kwon Lee

• Elizabeth Caplick Weigensberg

• Rachel Buchanan

• Paul Lanier

• Ryan Morgan

• Cheryl Noble

• Jilan Li

• Yeong-Hun Yeo

• Jung-Won Huh

Population Informatics Lab History

• Fall 2013: Dr. Kum also joined Texas A&M Health Science Center and more connections were made with Texas A&M.  But UNC-CH also have seen more participation as the group matured.

• Spring 2013: Became an inter organization group with Dr. Wells Joining Texas A&M Health Science Center

• Fall 2012: Population Informatics Lab

• Fall 2010: Social Welfare and Health Informatics Group (SWHIG)