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

Kolluru, Ramesh, Ph.D.
Vice President for Research, Innovation, and Economic Development
Director (2003- 2014), Center for Business & Information Technologies
Executive Director (2007-2014), National Incident Management Systems and Advanced Technologies (NIMSAT) Institute
Site Director (2012), Center for Visual and Decision Informatics

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

Leatham-Boe, Peyton
Artificial Intelligence Research Scientist

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

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"
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