Public Biography
Gondy Leroy, Ph.D., is Professor of MIS, Associate Dean for Research at the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management, and Research Director of the Center for Management Innovations in Healthcare. Her research focuses on natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML). She has won grants from NIH (NLM, NIMH), AHRQ, NSF, Microsoft Research, and several foundations. She earned a combined BS and MS (1996) in cognitive, experimental psychology from the Catholic University of Leuven (1996) in Belgium and a MS (1999) and PhD (2003) in management information systems from the University of Arizona. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research, Journal of Database Management, International Journal of Social and Organizational Dynamics in IT, Health Systems, and Journal of Business Analytics, and co-chaired several special issues, sessions, tracks, workshops, and conferences focusing on design science and healthcare IT. She is the author of the book “Designing User Studies in Informatics (Springer, 2011). Finally, she actively contributes to increasing diversity and inclusion in computing through mentoring students early in their academic careers starting in high school and through graduate school.