Service

• Editorial Board Member, 6/2024 - present, Online Journal of Pulbic Health Informatics (OJPHI), JMIR
• Academic Editor, 1/2023 - present, PLOS ONE
• Editorial Board Member, 2/2023 - present, Natural Language Processing Journal
• Guest Editor, Special Issue "Machine Learning in Epidemiology", Journal of Personalized Medicine
• Book Editor, 2022-2023, Introduction to Healthcare Informatics, Third Edition
• External Reviewer, 2022, Pitt SCI faculty promotion
• Committee Member, 2023 - present, SHRS Faculty APT (Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure) Committee
• International Advisory Board, 2021 - present, Computer Information System Department, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan
• Committee Member, 2021 - present, ITAC - Information Technology Advisory Committee, ISS - Information Security Subcommittee University of Pittsburgh
• Workshop Chair, 2022, 2023, 2024, International Workshop on Health Informatics Education at the IEEE International Conference on Health Informatics (ICHI)
• AHIMA Council for Excellence in Education (CEE), Academic Research Workgroup, 2022
• PhD Dissertation Defense Moderator, SHRS.
• Dean's representation of PhD student comprehensive exam, SHRS.
• SHRS Doctoral Award Proposal Review Committee, 2017-2020, SHRS, University of Pittsburgh
• SHRS Merit Scholarship reviewer, 2022, University of Pittsburgh
• SHRS PhD student preliminary exam grader, 2022, SHRS, University of Pittsburgh
• PhD Student Admission Committee, 2016-present, SHRS, 2024 - present, School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh
• MS Student Admission Committee, 2018 - present, Department of Health Informatioin Management, SHRS, 2024 - present, School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh
• RDF Proposal Reviewer, 2011-2017, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
• PA Node leader of GEP (Genomics Education Partnership), 2024 - present
• External program evaluator, Applied Health Informatics, School of Health Professions, Stony Brook University
• Program Peer Reviewer, 2022 - present, Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM)
• Mentor for undergraduate students in the NSF REU program, 2010 - present, TECBio program, University of Pittsburgh
• Proposal Reviewer
  • Proposal Panelist, 2009 - present, National Science Foundation
  • Proposal Panelist, 2024, Office of Minority Health
  • Proposal Reviewer, 2021, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
  • Proposal Reviewer, 2011, Louisiana Board of Regents, Research Competiveness Subprogram (RCS) program
  • Proposal Reviewer, 2019, HERL CPPF program
  • Proposal Reviewer, 2011, University of Pittsburgh, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Basic to Clinical Collaboration Research Pilot Program
  • Proposal Reviewer, 2024, 2025, University of Pittsburgh, Pitt Momentum Funds
  • Book Proposal Reviewer, 2011, "Multiple Biological Sequence Alignment", Wiley Book Series on Bioinformatics
• Paper and Book Reviewer
  • Book Reviewer, 2010, First Edition of "Computer Security: Principles and Practice"
  • Book Chapter Reviewer, 2009, Elements of Computational Systems Biology, Wiley Book Series on Bioinformatics: Computational Techniques and Engineering.
  • Paper Reviewer, 2023, ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare
  • Paper Reviewer, 2018, 2020, BMJ Open
  • Paper Reviewer, 2019, 2022, Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology
  • Paper Review, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, Informatics in Medicine Unlocked
  • Paper Reviewer, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, JMIR, JMIR Research Protocols, JMIR mHealth and uHealth, JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, JMIR Formative Research, JMIR Medical Informatics, Interactive Journal of Medical Research
  • Paper Reviewer, 2022, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
  • Paper Reviewer, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, Behaviour and Information Technology
  • Paper Reviewer, 2022, Digital Health
  • Paper Reviewer, 2022 - present, Frontiers in Computer Science, Frontiers in Digital Health, Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Paper Reviewer, 2021, Gene
  • Paper Reviewer, 2022, Heliyon
  • Paper Reviewer, 2017, 2018 The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2018, 2019
  • Paper Reviewer, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, AMIA Annual Symposium
  • Paper Reviewer and Scientific Program Committee, 2023, AMIA 2024 Informatics Summit
  • Paper Reviewer 2024, 2025, AMIA Clinical Informatics Conference
  • Paper Reviewer, 2012, Communicative and Integrative Biology
  • Paper Reviewer, 2010, Chinese Medicine
  • Paper Reviewer, 2010, 2015, IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience
  • Paper Reviewer, 2009, 2011 BMC Bioinformatics
  • Paper Reviewer, 2009, Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
  • Paper Reviewer, 2009, 2010 IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine
  • Paper Reviewer, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018The Journal of Supercomputing
  • Paper Reviewer, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2020 PLoS ONE
  • Paper Reviewer, 2014 GENE
  • Paper Reviewer, 2013, Computational Biology and Chemistry
  • Paper Reviewer, 2014, International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics
  • Paper Reviewer, 2017, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.
• Program Committee Member
  • Scientific Planning Committee Member, AMIA 2024 Informatics Summit, March 18-21, Boston, MA.
  • Program Committee Member, 2015, IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IEEE IRI 2015) International Workshop on Health Informatics, Biomedicine and Bioinformatics (IRI-HI-BI-BI) , San Francisco, CA, August 13-15, 2015.
  • Program Committee Member, 2011 - 2017 International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms (BIOINFORMATICS 2011 - 2017)
  • Program Committee Member, The First International Conference on Computational and Systems Biology and Microbiology (BIOSYSCOM 2010)
  • Program Committee Member, 2009 ISIBM International Joint Conferences on Bioinformatics, Systems Biology and Intelligent Computing
  • Program Committee Member, 2009, 2010 International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-09, BCBGC-10)
  • Program Committee Member, 2009 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'09)
  • Program Committee Member, 2008 - 2017 International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications.
  • Program Committee Member, The 23rd International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW 2012), Taiwan, December 12-14, 2012.
  • Program Committee Member, International Conference on Physiological Computing Systems (PhyCS 2014, 2015, 2017).
  • Program Committee Member, International Symposium on Network Enabled Health Informatics, Biomedicine and Bioinformatics (HI-BI-BI 2013), Niagara Falls, Canada, August 25-28, 2013.
  • Program Committee Member, International Symposium on Network Enabled Health Informatics, Biomedicine and Bioinformatics (HI-BI-BI 2014), Beijing, China, August 18-19, 2014.
  • Program Committee Member, International Symposium on Network Analysis and Mining for Health Informatics, Biomedicine and Bioinformatics (Net-HI-BI-BI 2013) , December 18-21, Shanghai, China
  • Program Committee Member, The International Symposium on Big Data and BioComputation (BIOCOMPUTATION 2015) , May 24-29, 2015, Rome, Italy.
  • Program Committee Member, AMIA 2024 Informatics Summit, March 18-21, 2024. Boston, MA
• Judge, Intel International Science and Engineering Fair 2012, 2015 (ISEF 2012, 2015) , David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA
• High school student research mentor (2015, 2016)