Post Docs and Researchers
Scott Malec, BS, MLIS, MSIT, PhD
Education:
BS in foreign languages and humanities at Edinboro University
MLIS in library and information sciences at the University of Pittsburgh
Caroline Birer
PhD Molecular Ecology @ University of French Guiana
MS Chemistry @ Paris-Sud University
PharmD @ Clermont Auvergne University
Travis J. De Wolfe, PhD

Post Doctoral Scholar, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Ph.D. Food Science @ UW-Madison
M.S. Comparative Biomedical Sciences @ UW-Madison
B.S. Natural Sciences @ UW-Madison
Jinling Liu, PhD, MS
Post Doctoral Scholar, Department of Biomedical Informatics
BS (2008, Biotechnology) East China Normal University
PhD (2014, Biology) The Pennsylvania State University
MS (2019, Biomedical Informatics) University of Pittsburgh
Nick Cooley, PhD
Post Doctoral Scholar
BS, Microbiology/Molecular Genetics, Ohio State University
PhD, Chemistry, University of Missouri
Andrew King, PhD

Post Doctoral Scholar
King A, Cooper GF, Clermont G, Hochheiser H, Hauskrecht M, Sittig DF, Visweswaran S. Using machine learning to selectively highlight patient information. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 2019; Oct 29;100:103327. DOI: 1016/j.jbi.2019.103329.
King AJ, Cooper GF, Hochheiser H, Clermont G, Hausrecht M, Visweswaran S. Using Machine Learning to Predict the Information Seeking Behavior of Clinicians Using an Electronic Medical Record System. AMIA Annual Symp Proc. 2018 Dec 5;2018:673-682. eCollection 2018. PubMed PMID: 30815109. PMCID: PMC6371238.
King AJ, Hochheiser H, Visweswaran S, Clermont G, Cooper GF. Eye-tracking for Clinical Decision Support: A Method to Capture Automatically What Physicians Are Viewing in the EMR. AMIA Jt Summits Transl Sci Proc. 2017 Jul 26;2017:512-521. eCollection 2017. PMID: 28815151. PMCID: PMC5543363.
King AJ, Fisher AM, Becich MJ, Boone DN. Computer Science, Biology and Biomedical Informatics academy: Outcomes from 5 years of Immersing High-school Students into Informatics Research. J Pathol Inform. 2017 Feb 28;8:2. doi: 10.4103/2153-3539.201110. eCollection 2017. PMID: 28400991 PMC ID: 5359992.
Uppal R, Mandava G, Romagnoli KM, King AJ, Draper AJ, Handen AL, Fisher AM, Becich MJ, Dutta-Moscato J. How can we improve Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math education to encourage careers in Biomedical and Pathology Informatics? J Pathol Inform. 2016 Jan 29;7:2. doi: 10.4103/2153-3539.175375. eCollection 2016. PMID: 26955500. PMCID: PMC4763503.
King AJ, Cooper GF, Hochheiser H, Clermont G. Development and preliminary evaluation of a prototype of a learning electronic medical record system. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2015 Nov 5;2015:1967-75. eCollection 2015. PMID: 26958296 PMCID: PMC4765593.
Education
PhD (2018, Biomedical Informatics) University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
MS (2015, Biomedical Informatics) University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Ye Ye, BS, MS
Post Doctoral Associate, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Rexit R, Tsui FC, Espino JU, Chrysanthis PK, Wesaratchakit S, Ye Y. An analytics appliance for identifying (near) optimal over-the-counter medicine products as health indicators for influenza surveillance. J Manager Infor Systems. 2015;48:151-63.
Lu S, Ye Y, Tsui F-C, Su H, Rexit R, Wesaratchakit S, Hwa R. "Domain ontology-based feature reduction for high dimensional drug data and its application to 30-day heart failure readmission prediction," Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (Collaboratecom), 2013 9th International Conference Conference on, Austin, TX, 2013, pp. 478-484.
Education
Lujia Chen, PhD
Post Doctoral Associate, Department of Biomedical Informatics
Lu S, Fan X, Chen L, Lu X. A novel method of using Deep Belief Networks and genetic perturbation data to search for yeast signaling pathways. Plos One. September 2018; 13(9). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203871.
Chen L, Lu X. Making deep learning models transparent. J of Med Artif Intell 2018; 1:5.
Lu S, Cai C, Yan G, Zhou Z, Wan Y, Chen V, Chen L, Cooper GF, Obeid LM, Hannun YA, Lee AV, Lu X. Signal-Oriented Pathway Analyses Reveal a Signaling Complex as a Synthetic Lethal Target for p53 Mutations. Cancer Res. 206 Dec 1:76(23):6785-6794. doi: 10.1158/0008-5472.CAN-16-1740. Epub 2016 Oct 10. PMID: 27758891. PMCID: PMC5165695.
Montefusco DJ, Chen L, Matmati N, Lu S, Newcomb B, Cooper GF, Hannun YA, Lu X. Distinct signaling roles of ceramide species in yeast revealed through systematic perturbation and systems biology analyses. Sci Signal. 2013 Oct 29;6(299): rs14. doi: 10.1126/scisignal.2004515. PMID: 24170935. PMC3974757.
Research Interests
Microarray data analysis
Machine Learning
Education
BS (2008, Biological Technology) University of Science & Technology, Beijing, China
MS (2012, Biomedical Informatics) University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA