Department of Biomedical Informatics

Primary Faculty

Becich, Michael J., MD, PhD

Professor of Biomedical Informatics

Professor of Pathology

Professor of Information Sciences

Professor of Telecommunications

Chair of Department of Biomedical Informatics


Interests: Translational bioinformatics, pathology informatics, prostate tumor cell biology, oncology informatics, tissue banking informatics, research resource development, content-based image retrieval and digital libraries, outcome informatics

Chapman, Brian, PhD

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics

Assistant Professor of Radiology

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering


Interests: Radiology, data extraction from medical images

Chapman, Wendy W., PhD

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics

Assistant Professor of Intelligent Systems


Interests: Natural language processing, biosurveillance, clinical decision support

Cooper, Gregory F., MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Associate Professor of Intelligent Systems

Associate Professor of Computational Biology

Vice Chair of Department of Biomedical Informatics

Associate Professor of Information Sciences

Co-Director of Biomedical Informatics Training Program


Interests: Artificial intelligence in biomedical informatics, data mining, Bayesian statistics, biosurveillance

Crowley, Rebecca S., MD, MSIS

Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics

Associate Professor of Intelligent Systems

Associate Professor of Pathology

Director of Biomedical Informatics Training Program


Interests: Intelligent medical training systems, student and user modeling, empirical studies of medical decision making and expertise, information extraction and medical natural language, processing for Translational Informatics, image-guided decision support systems, human-computer interaction and multi-institution data sharing.

Day, Roger S., ScD

Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics

Associate Professor of Biostatistics


Interests: Stochastic modeling, tumor growth, adjuvant treatment, genetics of cancer, translational research

Ganapathiraju, Madhavi, PhD

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics

Assistant Professor of Intelligent Systems


Interests: Machine learning and development of multidisciplinary approaches to computational and predictive biomedicine

Gopalakrishnan, Vanathi, PhD

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics

Assistant Professor of Intelligent Systems

Assistant Professor of Computational Biology


Interests: Machine learning and data mining in proteomic data analysis, prediction of protein sequence-structure-function relationships, protein crystallization

Handler, Steven, MD, MS

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics

Doctoral Fellow of Biomedical Informatics


Interests: Adverse drug reactions, biomedical informatics, patient safety, medication management, process and quality improvement, long-term care

Mello-Thoms, Claudia, MSEE, PhD

Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics

Assistant Professor of Radiology


Tsui, Fu-Chiang (Rich), PhD

Research Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics

Research Assistant Professor of Intelligent Systems


Interests: Biosurveillance, grid computing, machine learning, time series analysis, spatial-temporal data analysis, neural networks, wavelet transforms, signal processing, data warehouse, and real- time systems

Visweswaran, Shyam, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics


Interests: artificial intelligence and machine learning in clinical medicine and bioinformatics, patient-specific modeling using machine learning techniques, clinical prediction modeling

Wagner, Michael M., MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics

Associate Professor of Intelligent Systems

Director of DBMI Corporate Relations

Director of Real-time Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) Laboratory


Interests: Realtime Outbreak and Disease Surveillance (RODS) system, National Retail Data Monitor (NRDM), clinical preparedness for bioterrorism via information technology