Research Advisors

Jason Adelman MD, MS

Associate Professor of Medicine (in Biomedical Informatics); Chief Patient Safety Officer, Columbia University Irving Medical Center/NewYork-Presbyterian
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health IT safety research, electronic health records, computerized physician order entry, machine learning, decision support, audit log data, health system evaluation, learning health system, health services research

Suzanne Bakken RN, PhD, FAAN, FACMI

Alumni Professor of Nursing; Professor of Biomedical Informatics
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precision health, symptom science, return of research results, information visualization, quasi-experimental research methods, participatory design

Noémie Elhadad PhD

Chair and Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics
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machine learning, natural language processing, decision support, electronic health records, patient-generated data

Pierre Elias MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine (in Biomedical Informatics) at CUMC
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machine learning, deep learning, cardiology, cardiac imaging, clinical trials

Gamze GĂĽrsoy PhD

Herbert Irving Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
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genome privacy, biomedical data privacy, genomics, computational biology, 3D genome

George Hripcsak MD, MS

Vivian Beaumont Allen Professor of Biomedical Informatics
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electronic health records, causal inference, data assimilation, phenotyping, machine learning, decision support, observational research, natural language processing

Shalmali Joshi

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
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Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Causal Inference, Off-policy Reinforcement Learning, Electronic Health Records, Health Disparities, Learning Health Systems

Rita Kukafka DrPH, MA, FACMI

Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Sociomedical Sciences at CUMC
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patient-centered care, shared decision making, decision support, electronic health records, patient decision aids, hereditary cancer syndromes, risk communication, implementation science, participatory design, mixed methods, randomized clinical trials

Lena Mamykina PhD

Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Graduate Program Director
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human-computer interaction, mHealth and personal informatics, intelligent interactive systems, clinical decision support

Karthik Natarajan PhD

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at CUMC
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electronic health records, clinical decision support, information retrieval, text extraction, data quality, warehousing, data engineering, OMOP, OHDSI, clinical informatics, clinical research informatics

Soojin Park MD, FAHA, FNCS

Associate Professor of Neurology (in Biomedical Informatics)
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machine learning, prediction, signal processing, decision support, device data, critical care

Vimla Patel PhD, DSc, FRSC

Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics
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cognitive informatics, clinical decision-making and reasoning, medical errors, patient safety, human-computer interaction

Raul Rabadan PhD

Professor of Systems Biology and of Biomedical Informatics; Director of Mathematical Genomics
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genomics, mathematical approaches, machine learning, cancer, infectious diseases, tumor evolution

Sarah Collins Rossetti RN, PhD

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Nursing
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patient safety, applied clinical informatics, decision support, predictive modeling, clinical communication, patient-centered tools, acute and critical care, electronic health records, SmartApps, early warning scores

Patrick Ryan PhD

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
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epidemiology, pharmacovigilance, data standards, phenotype, causal inference, electronic health records, machine learning

Yufeng Shen PhD

Associate Professor of Systems Biology and Biomedical Informatics
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computational genomics, human genetics, statistical genetics, machine learning, immunogenomics

David Vawdrey PhD

Associate Professor of Clinical Biomedical Informatics at CUMC
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Dennis Vitkup PhD

Associate Professor of Systems Biology and Biomedical Informatics
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Chunhua Weng PhD

Professor of Biomedical Informatics
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clinical research informatics, translational informatics, knowledge representation and engineering, natural language interface to clinical data, clinical phenotyping, evidence-based medicine, learning health system, interdisciplinary team science

Mohammed AlQuaraishi PhD

Assistant Professor of Systems Biology (in Computer Science)
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Elias Bareinboim PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
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causal and counterfactual inferences, data fusion and bias analysis, decision-making, human-ai collaboration, artificial intelligence, machine learning

David Blei PhD

Professor of Computer Science and Statistics
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Andrea Califano PhD

Professor of Chemical Biology and Systems Biology; Chair of Systems Biology
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systems biology, cancer, transcriptomics, omics, master regulators, translational research, precision oncology, precision medicine

Tal Korem PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Biology
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microbiome analysis, machine learning, women’s health, bioinformatics

Itsik Pe'er PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
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machine learning, genomewide association studies, microbiome, time series analysis, population genomics

Michael Yin MD

Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases
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Jason Zucker MD

Instructor in Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases
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electronic health records, machine learning, clinical decision support, patient reported outcomes, dashboard development, implementation science, adult and pediatric infectious diseases, sexual health care