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Faculty Researchers at UL Lafayette

   

                                             Bhupatiraju, Ravi Teja, MBBS, PhD
Health Informatics Research Scientist, Center for Applied AI

Research Interests: Clinical decision-making using LLMs, Biomedical information retrieval, clinical education standards, clinical cognition.
Barhorst, Alan A., Ph.D., PE, FASME
Professor, Alumni Association/LEQSF Professor, Department Head, Mechanical Engineering
Nonlinear Dynamics and Robotics Lab, UL Lafayette

Research Interests: Biomechanics, healthcare engineering, mechatronics, micro-electro-mechanical systems, multi-body electrodynamics, robotics, signal processing.
Chaudhry, Beenish Moalla, PhD
Associate Professor
School of Computing and Informatics

Research Interests: Human-computer interaction, health informatics, mobile computing, and health data analytics.

Bayoumi, Magdy, PhD.
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Department Head,  Professor

Research Interest: Computer technologies, Communication technologies, Sensing technologies and sensor nodes, Capabilities of sensing, Data processing, Monitoring sensors in industrial facilities, Management of energy applications to military and security fields

 
Chen, Li, PhD.
Associate Professor
School of Computing and Informatics

Research Interest: Federated computing, big data analytics, machine learning systems, resource allocation, cloud computing.
Chu, Chee-Hung (Henry), PhD
Professor, Lockheed Martin/BORSF Endowed Professor, Computing and Informatics;
Executive Director, Informatics Research Institute

Research Interests: Machine learning and Computer vision (Medical imaging), Clinical Trials, Pattern recognition.
      Faisal, Tanvir, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering

Research Interest: Biomechanics, structures, image-based computational biomechanics, mechanics of 3D printed cellular structures.
Gottumukkala, Raju, PhD
AAMA/LEQSF Regents Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering;
Director of Research, Informatics Research Institute
Director, Center for Applied AI

Research Interests: Human-centric intelligent systems, multimodal sensing and learning, privacy-aware methods for human behavior sensing, cyber-physical system security, AI/ML for emergency management and public health.
Hei, Xiali (Sharon), PhD
Associate Professor
Alfred and Helen M. Lamson Endowed Professor
School of Computing and Informatics


Research Interests: AI security and privacy, Secure real-time wireless medical devices, Cyber-physical system security, security of wireless medical devices, biometrics security, device security, and network forensics.
Hosseini, Majid, PhD
Artificial Intelligence Research Scientist, Center for Applied AI

​Research Interests: Multimodal learning, human-centric intelligent systems, real-world implementation science, federated learning, and telehealth.
Kolluru, Ramesh, PhD
Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Economic Development
Professor, School of Computing and Informatics

Research Interests: Control Systems, Health Informatics, Social Computing.
Lakhotia, Arun, PhD
Director of the Center for Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity; Professor, Computing and Informatics; Director, Software Research Lab

Research Interests: Software engineering, security, and trusted computing.
Lin, Hung-Chu, DDS, PhD

Professor of Psychology Chair, Institutional Review Board SLEMCO/LEQSF Regents Professor in Liberal Arts Sponsored Collaborator, Pediatric Newborn Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Maida, Anthony, PhD
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Biological Intelligence Lab

Research Interests: Intelligent systems, neural networks, brain simulation, neurocomputing, computational neuroscience, and AI explainability.
        Shi, Min, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Computing and Informatics

Research Interests: Computer vision and fairness in AI and medical informatics, federated learning, medical AI, and graph learning.
Sittig, Scott  PhD, MHI, RHIA
Associate Professor, Health Information Management


Research Interests: applied health informatics, patient engagement, and chronic disease management.
Tozal, Mehmet, PhD
Francis Patrick Clark/BORSF Endowed Associate Professor, Computing and Informatics

Research Interests: Anomaly detection, complex systems, cybersecurity, health informatics (data analysis & visualization domains), decision support systems.
Wilson, Gabriela, PhD
Director, Louisiana Center for Health Innovation;
Dr. J. Robert Rivet Endowed Chair;
Acadian Ambulance Service/BORSF Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Health Informatics; Professor, College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests: Health and pharmaco-informatics, interprofessional education and multidisciplinary research with community, academic, and industrial partners, and social media analytics.
Zheng, Hao, PhD, Assistant Professor
Computing and Informatics, Intelligent Biomedical Data Analytics Lab

Research Interests: Biomedical image and data analysis, multi-modal learning, and reliable AI.