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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
Associate Professor
School of Computing and Informatics

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

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)
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.

Maida, Anthony, PhD
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Biological Intelligence Lab

Research Interests: Intelligent systems, neural networks, brain simulation, neurocomputing, computational neuroscience, and AI explainability.

Sanchez, Angie V., MD, MPH
Health Innovation Officer, Louisiana Center for Health Innovation

Research Interests: Equity in science, health, and community development.

        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.