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 Headshot: Bhupatiraju, Ravi Teja, MBBS, PhD                                            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.
Headshot: Barhorst, Alan A., Ph.D., PE, FASME 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.
Headshot: Beenish Chaudhry Chaudhry, Beenish Moalla, PhD
Associate Professor
School of Computing and Informatics

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

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

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

Research Interest: Federated computing, big data analytics, machine learning systems, resource allocation, cloud computing.
Headshot: Chu, Chee-Hung (Henry), PhD 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.
     Headshot: Faisal, Tanvir, PhD Faisal, Tanvir, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering

Research Interest: Biomechanics, structures, image-based computational biomechanics, mechanics of 3D printed cellular structures.
Headshot: Gottumukkala, Raju, PhD 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.
Headshot: Hei, Xiali (Sharon), PhD 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.
Headshot: Hosseini, Majid, PhD 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.
Headshot: Kolluru, Ramesh 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.
Headshot: Lakhotia, Arun, PhD 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.
Headshot: Lin, Hung-Chu, DDS, PhD 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
Headshot: Maida, Anthony, PhD Maida, Anthony, PhD
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Biological Intelligence Lab

Research Interests: Intelligent systems, neural networks, brain simulation, neurocomputing, computational neuroscience, and AI explainability.
       Headshot: Shi, Min, PhD 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.
Headshot: Sittig, Scott PhD, MHI, RHIA Sittig, Scott  PhD, MHI, RHIA
Associate Professor, Health Information Management


Research Interests: applied health informatics, patient engagement, and chronic disease management.
Headshot: Tozal, Mehmet, PhD 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.
Headshot: Wilson, Gabriela, PhD 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.
Headshot: Zheng, Hao, PhD 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.