Download School of Informatics and Computing Researchers

Yong-Yeol “YY” Ahn, PhD
• Assistant Professor @ School of Informatics
and Computing
• Previously: Post-doctoral research at
Center for Complex Networks Research
(Northeastern University) and visiting
researcher at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
(Harvard Medical School)
• Interests: Network structure in various medical contexts (patientlevel clinical data, social networks, gene-disease association,
drug-target networks, etc).
• Dream Project: Understanding the impact of social contacts in
health decisions and the design of public health policy based on it /
Identifying novel disease-disease and disease-gene associations
using network based techniques.
Shaowen Bardzell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Human Computer Interaction Design, SOIC
Indiana University--Bloomington
Affiliated Faculty of the Kinsey Institute
The Cultural Research in Technology (CRIT) Group
[email protected] | sbardzell.wordpress.com | http://crit.soic.indiana.edu
Research interests:
• Socio-cultural computing
• Feminism and interaction design
• Techno-sexuality: The links between sexual practice and information
communication technologies (e.g., sexual users of the Internet and related
technologies such as social media and mobile phones)
• Sexual health, intimacy, and interactions
• Body image, appreciation and their relationships to health and wellbeing issues
• The role of everyday life in contemporary interactions
• User research methodologies
Kelly Caine, PhD
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Principal Research Scientist
– School of Informatics &
Computing, IUB
– Center for Law, Ethics, and
Applied Research (CLEAR) Health
Information
– Co-Director, PHIT Lab
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Human Factors
Psychology of Privacy
Privacy Enhanced Technologies
Health Informatics
Cognitive Aging
Usable Security
Contact
– [email protected]
– www.kellycaine.com
– www.phitlab.org
Kay Connelly, PhD
• Associate Professor of Computer Science
• Co-director of Center for Law, Ethics and
applied Research of Health Information
• Interests: Design of technologies that
empower patients to better understand
and improve their health
• Dream Project: Use technology to build a “healthy
community” in which residents measure and reflect
on their health behaviors, encourage healthy
behaviors within their social networks, and
measure overall community health
Geoffrey Fox, PhD
• Professor @ School of Informatics
and
Computing; Associate Dean for
Research and Graduate Studies
• Previously: Caltech, Syracuse, Florida State
• Interests: Cyberinfrastructure, Clouds,
Parallel Computing; application to bioinformatics, sensor
nets, polar and earthquake science; FutureGrid
• Dream Project: Architect and prototype a secure cloud
repository supporting medical informatics with data
streaming from a worldwide “Internet of Things” and
deep real time analysis using Iterative Mapreduce
David Hakken, PhD
• Professor of Social Informatics,
SoIC Bloomington
• Previously: Professor of
Anthropology and Sociology,
SUNY Institute of Technology
• Interests: Digital Technologies
and Social Change; Organizational Informatics in Health
• Dream Project: An ethnography of the changes in
organizing and patient behavior associated with
introduction of electronic medical records
Raquel Hill, PhD
• Assistant Professor @ School of
Informatics and Computing
• Previously: Post-Doctoral Researcher @
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Interests: Privacy -preserving access control
policies for sharing of medical and related data
• Dream Project: Developing automatic detection
mechanisms to determine when patient records are
accessed outside of policy
Predrag Radivojac, Ph.D.
• Associate Professor @ SOIC IUB
• Previously: Assistant Professor @ SOIC
• Interests: Understanding and predicting
protein function. Understanding and
predicting molecular causes of disease
related to gain or loss of protein function.
• Dream Project: Computationally driving biological
research that confirms genotypephenotype relationships.
Luis M. Rocha, PhD
• Associate Professor @ School of Informatics &
Computing (Center for Complex Networks and Systems)
– Director of Computational Biology Collaboratorium
Instituto Gulbenkian de Cieancia
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• Previously: Technical Staff Member (Complex
Systems Team Leader) @ Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Interests: Literature and Text Mining for biomedical
applications (e.g. Protein-Protein and Drug-Drug;
Interactions); Systems Biology Models of Biochemical
pathways (including Cancer Models)
• Dream Project: Integration of genomic, proteomic,
and metabolic network models with clinical data
Haixu Tang, PhD
• Associate Professor @ School of
Informatics and Computing,
IU-Bloomington
• Associate Director @ Center for Genomics and
Bioinformatics
• Interests: Computational Genomics, Glycomics and
Glycoproteomics, Genome Privacy
• Dream Project: Discovering biomarkers for diseases and
cell states by using glycans and glycoproteins on cell
surface
XiaoFeng Wang, PhD
• Associate Professor @ School of
Informatics and Computing
• Interests: Security Health Informatics,
Privacy in Genomic Computing and Data
Dissemination, Cloud/Web Security,
Malware Detection and Mitigation
• Dream Project: Security and privacy issues in
management and use of human genomic data,
particularly when the data is used together with
electronic health records
Ganesh Shankar, MS
• Manager
Advanced Biomedical IT Core
• Interests: Develop and deploy informatics
platforms to drive translational research.
• Dream Project: Integrate clinical research data
between HIEs, Hospitals, and Universities.
William Barnett, PhD
• Director, Advanced IT Core. Director, Science
Community Tools. Director, National Center
for Genome Analysis Support. Director,
Information Infrastructures, Indiana CTSI.
• Interests: Advanced Cyberinfrastructures for
Virtual Communities, Production Research
Workflows and Data Management, and High
Performance Computing for Life Sciences
Research
• Dream Project: A inter/national virtual
center that supports investigator-driven
integration of genomics and clinical data for
disease characterization.