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.
- Mia Lustria, PhD (MPI; Human Factors Lead)
Professor, School of Information, Florida State University.
Core Affiliate, Institute for Successful Longevity, Florida State University.
Areas of Research: Consumer Health Informatics, Health Communication, eHealth Intervention.
Responsibilities: Experimental design; Human factor.
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
graduate research assistants/volunteers
- Wenshan Han
PhD Student, Department of Statistics, Florida State University
Responsibilities: Biostatistical Analysis, EHR Data Modeling
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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
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Angelique Deville
Undergraduate Research Assistant.
Department of Biological Sciences, Florida State University.
Responsibilities: Data curation.
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Hailey Thompson
Undergraduate Research Assistant.
Department of Biological Sciences, Florida State University.
Responsibilities: Data curation.
COLLABORATORS / AI EXPERTS
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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.
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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.
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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.