Research Team

Bhupatiraju, Ravi Teja MBBS, PhD
Health Informatics Research Scientist, Accessible Healthcare Through AI-Augmented Decisions Center

Research Interests: Clinical decision-making using LLMs, Biomedical information retrieval, clinical education standards, clinical cognition.

Chu, Henry, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Informatics Research Institute
Professor, School of Computing and Informatics

Research Interests: Machine learning and Computer vision (Medical imaging), Clinical Trials, Pattern recognition.

Gottumukkala, Raju, PhD
Director, Accessible Healthcare through AI-Augmented Decisions (AHeAD) Center; Director of Research; Informatics Research Institute; AAMA/LEQSF Regents Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
337.482.0632

Research Interests: Human-centric intelligent systems, multimodal sensing and learning, privacy-aware methods for human behavior sensing, cyber-physical system security, AI/ML for emergency management and public health.

Guidry, Alicia, PhD
Health IT Specialist

Research Interests:public health informatics, global health

Hosseini, Majid, PhD
Artificial Intelligence Research Scientist
Accessible Healthcare through AI-Augmented Decisions (AHeAD) Center

Research Interests: Multimodal learning, human-centric intelligent systems (multimodal learning, real-world implementation science, federated Learning, telehealth.

Kolluru, Ramesh, Ph.D.
Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Economic Development

Research Interests: Control Systems, Health Informatics, Social Computing

LaCombe, Micah
Chief Technology Officer

Lakhotia, Arun, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Critical Infrastructure and Cybersecurity
Professor, Lockheed Martin/BORSF Endowed Professor, School of Computing and Informatics

Research Interests: Software engineering, security and trusted computing

Leathem-Boe, Peyton
Artificial Intelligence Research Scientist

Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, AL/ML in Renewable Natural Resources, and AI Literacy

Rizk, Frederic, PhD
Cybersecurity Research Scientist (Critical Infrastructure)

Research Interests: Machine learning and deep learning, VLSI, Embedded Systems, Architecture, Sensor-based systems, Intelligent Systems, and the Internet of Things (IoT) and their applications to solve interesting problems in life sciences.

Sakhamuri, Sahithya
Health Innovation Research Associate

Research Interests: Cancer risks and food insecurities

Sanchez, Angie V., MD, MPH
Health Innovation Officer
Louisiana Center for Health Innovation

Research Interests: Equity in science, health, and community development.

Smith, Sadie, MPH
Health Innovation Research Scientist

Research Interests: Community mobilization, patient advocacy, and health education

Strother, Shannon, PhD
Director, National Incident Management Systems & Advanced Technologies (NIMSAT) Institute
337.482.0609

Williams, James "Jim", MBA, LEM-B
Public-Private Partnership Officer

Wilson, Gabriela, PhD
Director, Louisiana Center for Health Innovation;
Dr. J. Robert Rivet Endowed Chair;
Acadian Ambulance Service/BORSF Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Health Informatics; Professor, College of Nursing and Health Sciences

Research Interests:Health and pharmaco-informatics, interprofessional education and multidisciplinary research with community, academic, and industrial partners, and social media analytics.

Zhang, Yihe, PhD
Cybersecurity Research Scientist (Cyber-Physical Systems)

Research Interests: Online Social Network Security , AI Security, and Social Goods