LABGenie Project: Research Team

  

RESEARCH TEAM

Principal Investigators

  • Zhe He, PhD, FAMIA (Contact PI; Data Science Lead)

    Associate Professor, School of Information, Florida State University.

    Core Affiliate, Institute for Successful Longevity, Florida State University.

    Areas of Research: Biomedical Informatics, Clinical Research Informatics, Consumer Health Informatics, Machine Learning.

    Responsibilities: Project management; Data Analytics; Algorithm development; AI; Financial; Reporting.

 

 

 

 

CO-Investigators

  • Zhan Zhang, PhD

    Associate Professor, Pace University.

    Areas of Research: Human-Computer Interaction; Health Informatics.

    Responsibilities: User-centered design; Design workshops; Interactive interface design.

  • Xiao Luo, PhD

    Associate Professor, Spears School of Business, Oklahoma State University.

    Areas of Research: Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Health Informatics.

    Responsibilities: Information retrieval; Key phrase extraction; Large language model finetuning.

  • Michael Killian, PhD, MSW

    Associate Professor, College of Social Work, Florida State University.

    Areas of Research: Health outcomes; Measurement development; Quantitative research methodology.

    Responsibilities: Sample size calculation/Power analysis; Data analysis.

  • Henna Budhwani, PhD, MPH

    Professor, College of Nursing, Florida State University.

    Areas of Research: Implementation Science, Stigma Reduction, HIV Prevention, Mental Health, Innovative Clinical and Pragmatic Trials, Community Engaged Action-Oriented Research, Global Development, mHealth and Digital Health.

    Responsibilities: Implementation science of digital health intervention; Evaluation.
Medical experts consultants

  • Karim Hanna, MD

    Program Director, College of Medicine Family Medicine, University of South Florida.

    Associate Professor, TCOP Dept of Pharmacy Practice.

    Areas of Research: Family Medicine; Clinical Informatics.

  • Lisa Granville, MD

    Professor of Geriatrics and Interim Chair.

    Department of Geriatrics, College of Medicine, Florida State University.

    Expertise: Geriatric Medicine.
Postdoc scholar / Data scientist

  • Balu Bhasuran, PhD

    Postdoc Scholar, School of Information, Florida State University.

    Areas of Research: Machine Learning; Electronic Health Record Modeling; Natural Language Processing; Information Extraction.

    Responsibilities: Implementation of question generation module and evaluation of large language models.
Application developer

  • Dhruv Kale

    Application Developer, School of Information, Florida State University.

    Responsibilities: Implementation of the LabGenie tool.
Application developer CONSULTANTS

  • Allen Gavilan

    Application Developer, One Cow Standing.

    Responsibilities: Linkage of the LabGenie tool with the EHR system.

graduate research assistants/volunteers

 

  • Wenshan Han

    PhD Student, Department of Statistics, Florida State University

    Responsibilities: Biostatistical Analysis, EHR Data Modeling

  • Yashas Nagesh Gowda

    MS Student, Department of Computer Science, Florida State University.

    Responsibilities: Implementation of the visualization module.

  • Xiaoyu Wang

    PhD Student, Department of Statistics, Florida State University.

    Responsibilities: Implementation of the LabGenie tool; Large language model application and evaluation.
undergraduate assistants

  • Angelique Deville

    Undergraduate Research Assistant.

    Department of Biological Sciences, Florida State University.

    Responsibilities: Data curation.

  • Hailey Thompson

    Undergraduate Research Assistant.

    Department of Biological Sciences, Florida State University.

    Responsibilities: Data curation.

COLLABORATORS / AI EXPERTS

  • Zhiyong Lu, PhD, FACMI, FIAHSI

    Senior Investigator, NIH/NLM.

    Deputy Director for Literature Search, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Library of Medicine, NIH.

    Professor of Computer Science (Adjunct), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).

    Expertise: Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval.

 

 

 

  • Qiao Jin, MD

    Postdoc Researcher, NIH/NLM.

    National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Library of Medicine, NIH.

    Expertise: Biomedical Large Language Models, Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval.
CO-Investigators

  • Neil Charness, PhD

    William G. Chase Professor of Psychology.

    Department of Psychology, Florida State University.

    Expertise: Human factors, Technologies for older adults.

  • Jing Wang, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN

    Professor and Dean.

    College of Nursing, Florida State University.

    Expertise: Digital Health, Aging, Clinical Trials, Lifestyle Intervention, Precision Health, Health Equity, Multiple Chronic Conditions.

  • Dawn Carr, PhD

    Professor and Director of the Claude Pepper Center.

    College of Social Sciences and Public Policy, Florida State University.

    Expertise: Health and Aging, Volunteering, Work/Retirement, Caregiving.

  • Yang Gong, MD, PhD, FIAHSI

    Associate Professor

    School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

    Expertise:  Biomedical Informatics, Patient Safety, Clinical Decision Support.

TEAM STRUCTURE