Public Biography
I am a Research Professor in Biomedical Informatics of the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University. Before I joined ASU, I was a Distinguished Research Staff Member at IBM Research, with 25+ years of research and technical leadership experience. I was a PI on the IBM Watson Health initiative, leading the team that collaborated with several multi-specialty hospitals on the patient records analysis project, utilizing Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to analyze free text clinical notes. I received Ph.D. in computer science from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a Distinguished Member of the Association of Computing Machinery, I am a prolific author and innovator with many papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, and over 50 patents.
Affiliations
Fellows of AMIA (FAMIA)
FAMIA stands for “Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association” and it recognizes the contributions and professional accomplishments of AMIA members who apply informatics skills and knowledge to their practice – be that in a clinical setting, a public or population health capacity, or as a clinical researcher.
Year Inducted
2021