Sunyang Fu, PhD, MHI

I am an Assistant Professor and Associate Director of Team Science at the Center for Translational AI Excellence and Applications in Medicine (TEAM-AI), McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. I am also affiliated with UTHealth Institute on Aging, Network for Investigation of Delirium: Unifying Scientists, and Mayo Clinic, Division of Epidemiology. Additionally, I was selected as the 2023-24 Leadership Fellow with the National Institute of Health’s Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD). The overarching goal of my research is to accelerate, improve and govern the secondary use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) for clinical and translational research toward high throughput, reproducible, fair, and trustworthy discoveries. I have significant collaborative research experience in aging, cancer, and musculoskeletal diseases and procedures. Previously, I was a Sr. Data Science Analyst at the Department of AI and Informatics, Mayo Clinic. I obtained my Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota, M.H.I. at the University of Michigan, and B.B.A. at the University of Iowa.