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