Current Students

  1. Yi Xie, graduate student (IS), BACPAC (LB3P) project, 11/2023 - present
  2. Yuanyuan Cao, MS student (HIM). BACPAC (LB3P) project, 11/2023 - present
  3. Hongtao Wang, MS student (CS), GenAI-RA project, 7/2024 - present
  4. Yi Xu, PhD student, Low back pain, 9/2024 - present
  5. Max Bondi, MS student (ISP), wearable sensor, 9/2024 - present

Alumni

    PhD Students

    Served as the Dissertation Committee Chair or Co-Chair for:
  1. Thamer Al-Edresee, PhD, 2013-2018, Dissertation: "Predictive Modeling for Studying the Disease Process of Osteoporosis".
  2. Mohammed Aldhoayan, PhD, 2014-2018, Dissertation: "Comprehensive Management and Analysis of Complex and Large Research Datasets: An Application in Communication Science and Disorders". Current Position: Associate Professor, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences.
  3. Amal Alzu'bi, PhD, 2013-2016,Dissertation: "A Personal Genomic Information Analysis and Management System for Healthcare Purposes". Current Position: Associate Professor and Assistant Dean, Department of Computer Information Systems, Jordan University of Science and Technology
  4. Erh-Hsuan Wang, PhD, 2009-2016, Dissertation: "A mHealth Platform for Supporting Clinical Data Integration and Service Delivery: An Example from Augmentative and Alternative Communication Intervention". Current Position: Director, Data Analytics and Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, School of Pharmacy.
  5. Steve Moeini, PhD, 2009-2017, Dissertation: "Development and Evaluation of a Mobile-Based Weighted Well-being Scoring Function for Trauma Affected Communities". Current Position: Senior Software Engineer, Humana, Pittsburgh, PA.
    Served as a Dissertation Committee Member for:
  6. Degan Hao, PhD (ISP), 2024, Dissertation: "Trustworthy Deep Learning on Medical Images".
  7. Jun Luo, PhD (ISP), dissertation topic: " "
  8. Agus Setiawan, PhD (HIM), 2024, Dissertation: "An Integrated and Adaptable mHealth System to Support Individual with Chronic Conditions and Disabilities: Development, Evaluation, and Exploration for Future Works".
  9. Zakiy Alfikri, PhD (HIM), 2023, Dissertation: "A Comprehensive mHealth System for Chronic Low Back Pain Assessment: Development, Evaluation, and Exploration for Future Works".
  10. Lin Wei, PhD (RST), 2021, Dissertation: "The Potential for 3D Depth Cameras to Automatically Evaluate Independent Wheelchair Transfer Techniques".
  11. Akhila L. Veerubhotla, PhD (RST), 2019, Dissertation: "How Well Can Wearable Devices Measure Physical Activity in Manual Wheelchair Users with Spinal Cord Injury".
  12. I Gede Wira, PhD, 2017, Dissertation: "Development and Evaluation of a Gamified mHealth System for Improving Ecological Momentary Intervention (EMI) in Child Anxiety Treatment", Current Position: Research Scientist, University of Pittsburgh.
  13. Kimberly Peterson, PhD, 2017, Dissertation: "Developing a Quality of Life Survey ina Trauma-Affected Community". Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh.
  14. I Wayan Pulantara, PhD, 2016, Dissertation: "Model, Architecture and Application of Cross-Platform Just-In-Time Adaptive Intervention (JITAI): An Implementation in Behavioral Sleep Intervention". Current Position: Postdoc, University of Pittsburgh.
  15. Yingda Jiang, PhD, 2015, Dissertation: "Gene-Based Association Testing of Dichotomous Traits Using Generalized Functional Linear Mixed Models for Family Data", Current Position: Analytics Statistician, IBM.

    Graduate Students

  1. Xiaoyu Xiao, graduate student (IS), BACPAC (LB3P) project, 9/2023 - 8/2024
  2. Ayush Malik, graduate student (IS), BACPAC (LB3P) project, 9/2023 - 12/2023
  3. Atharva Vichare, graduate student (CS), BACPAC (LB3P) project, 9/2023 - 12/2023
  4. Sreekanth Sreekumar, graduate student (CS), BACPAC project, Feb 2022 - April 2023
  5. Anjnesh P. Sharma, graduate student (IS), Blast project, Jan 2023 - August 2023
  6. Arushi Shama, graduate student (IS), BACPAC project, Feb 2023 - August 2023
  7. Qingyang Li, graduate student (IS), Wellness Pavilion information management syste, 11/2021 - 4/2022
  8. Qixian Wu, graduate student (IS), Wellness Pavilion information management system, 9/2021 - 7/2022
  9. Weilun Hu, graduate student (IS), wellness pavilion information management system, 3/2019 - 8/2021
  10. Peng Jin, graduate student (IS), wellness pavilion information management system, 3/2019 - 12/2019
  11. Deng Pan, graduate student (IS), sleep data analysis and machine learning, 4/2019 - 9/2019
  12. Mengyuan Huang, graduate student (IS), usability questionnaire website and sleep disorder screening website, 1/2019 - 9/2019
  13. Xinghao (Jacob) Huang, gradute student (IS), telehealth security self assessment website development, data analysis, mobile accessibility feature development, 1/2018 - 4/2019
  14. Yitian Guo, graduate student (IS), wellness pavilion information management system, 9/2018 - 4/2019
  15. Jie Bao, PhD student (HIM), usability questionnaire development, 1/2017 - 12/2017
  16. Zhenqiang Xu, graduate student (IS), data analysis, 4/2018 - 10/2018
  17. Jingting (Joanne) Li, Graduate student (IS), FOCUS patient data management and analysis (Medical Compliance), 9/2017 - 1/6/2019
  18. Saixiong Han, Graduate student (IS), imHealthy Web Version (Frontend), (2/2018 - 6/2018); Patient information management system (Wellness Pavilion), 7/2018 - 8/2018
  19. Junyi Deng, graduate student (IS), web development, 6/2018 - 7/2018
  20. Yang Wang, graduate student (IS), web information retrieval, 6/2018 - 7/2018
  21. Linghui Li, graduate student (IS), imHealthy Web version (backend), 3/2018 - 6/2018.
  22. Saurabh Dhamnaskar, graduate student (IS), dynamic survey creation and administering system for telehealth and mobile health app usability studies, 1/2018 - 4/2018
  23. Kavya Nooguri, Graduate student (IS), Patient information management system (Wellness Pavilion), 9/2017 - 12/2017
  24. Jiarun Shan, Graduate student (IS), mobile app usage data analysis (iMHere), 9/2017 - 12/2017
  25. Zhou Zhu, Graduate student (IS), mobile sensor data analysis (DMD), 9/2017 - 12/2017
  26. Haohang Yan, Graduate student (HIM), User's perspective on security in mobile apps, 5/2016 - 8/2017
  27. Hsin-Chieh Yang, Graduate student (HIM), User's perspective on security in mobile apps, 1/2017 - 5/2017
  28. Harini Subramaninan, 2016 - 2017, Graduate student, Social Network Analysis.
  29. Walaa Ashmeg, 2016 - 2017, Graduate student, interntional studies on security and privacy in telemedicine.
  30. Sonia Gorakshakar, Spring 2017, Graduate student, Security features in published mobile apps
  31. Weiyi He, 2016 - 2017, Graduate student in Information Science, Mobile app development for security education.
  32. Xuechan Peng, June 2016 - December 2016, Graduate student, University of Pittsburgh.
  33. Dalun Bian, Spring 2016, Graduate student, Information Science, Current Position: Software Developer, Amazon.
  34. Keran Zhao, Spring 2016, Graduate student, Information Science.
  35. Hao Wang, 2015-2016, Graduate Student, Information Science, Current Position: Software Developer,
  36. Yansong Xu, March 2012 - April 2012, Graduate Student, Information Science
  37. Wenchao Xi, Janurary 2010 - April 2010, Graduate Student, EE. Current position: PhD student in Electrical Engineering at the University of California - Riverside
  38. Mou-Chun Wang, October 2010 - December 2010, Graduate Student, Information Science (Graduated in December 2010, Currently work at SDLC Partners, L.P. as a consultant)
  39. Sundeep Nallamilli, October 2010 - December 2010, Graduate Student, Information Science
  40. Nazanin Ghavam, August 2011 - December 2011, Graduate Student, Health Information Management. Current Position: Allegheny Health Network
  41. Yuanyuan Jiang, October 2010 - April 2012, Graduate Student, Information Science
  42. Hsiang-Jou (Iris) Cheng, March 2011 - April 2012, Graduate Student, Information Science

    Undergraduate Students

  1. Jared M. Kapustik, undergraduate student (HIM), survey on the current status of implementation science at UPMC, 9/2017 - 12/2017
  2. Brian Man, 2016 - 2017, Undergraduate student, Best practices in health information system securtiy for providers. Current Position: Graduate student at George Washington University.
  3. Taylor Horne, Spring 2017, Undergraduate student, Security issues in social media for providers in practicing telemedicine. Current Position: Graduate student at University of Pittsburgh.
  4. Dedrick Truong, Spring 2017, Undergradute student, Security issues in Electronic Health Record.
  5. Isaac Wong, 2015 - 2017, Undergraduate student, Computational modeling on Drug-Eluting Stent.
  6. Yijun Zhu, 2016 - 2017, Undergraduate student, Computational modeling on plaque vulerability.
  7. Andrew Sweet, 2015 - 2017, Undergraduate student, Mobile app accessibility. Current Position: Staff Engineer at Giner Inc.
  8. Antonia Curtin, September 2011 - August 2013, Undergraduate Student, Bioengineering. Current Position: PhD student, University of Minnesota
  9. Sean Young, July 2011 - August 2012, Undergraduate Student, Physics. Current Position: Lead iOS Engineer and Project Manager, Jarus Technologies.
  10. Paul Yenerall, May 2010 - August 2012, Undergraduate Student, Biology. Current Position: PhD student at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
  11. Rebecca Gerth, October 2010 - April 2011, Undergraduate Student, Bioengineering. Current Position: PhD Student at University of Pittsburgh.
  12. Hunter Eason, Janurary 2011 - April 2011, Undergraduate Student, Bioengineering
  13. Bradlee Krupa, Janurary 2010 - August 2011,Undergraduate Student, Computer Science, Current Position: Senior Software Engineer at M*Modal.
  14. Anthony Pulleo, September 2011 - December 2011, Undergraduate Student, Bioengineering.
  15. Bei Zhao, September 2011 - January 2012, Undergraduate Student, Bioengineering. Current Position: Graduate student at University of Minnesota.
  16. Helmet Karim, June 2010 - December 2011, Undergraduate Student, Biology. Current Position: PhD student and then Postdoc at University of Pittsburgh.
  17. Cynthia Wong, September 2011 - January 2012, Undergraduate Student, Bioengineering. Current Position: PhD student at Rice University.
  18. Cedric Brown, September 2011 - April 2012, Undergraduate Student, Bioengineering. Current Position: Bioengineer, FDA
  19. Ma Luo, Undergraduate student, Bioengineering, Spring 2013. Current Position: PhD Student at Vanderbilt University.
  20. Le Huang, Undergraduate student, Bioengineering, Fall 2015.
  21. Yutong Zhang, Undergraduate student, Bioengineering, Spring 2016.
  22. Tyler Martin, Undergraduate student, Bioengineering, Spring 2016.
  23. Gregg Karanovich, Undergraduate student, Bioengineering, Spring 2016.
  24. Alexander Lozada, Undergraduate student, University of Puerto Rico, Summer 2016, Pitt TEC REU program
  25. Skyler Schmidt, undergraduate student (HIM), EHR data extraction and analysis, 9/2017 - 4/2018