About

The DSI Health Analytics Center works to improve the health of individuals and the health care system through data-driven methods and understanding of health processes.

Poster Session Playlist

Watch an introduction from the Center Chair, followed by several short explainer videos from the participating research teams. The direct link to to the playlist on YouTube is here.

Participating Research

Posters linked below are research as of April 2, 2021. Contact the teams for updates.

Using Social Network Analysis to Compare Hispanic and Black Dementia Caregiving Networks in Twitter

  • Sunmoo Yoon, Associate Research Scientist, General Medicine, `Department of Medicine; and The Data Science Institute, Columbia University
  • Haseeb Asim, MS Candidate, Applied Analytics, School of Professional Studies, Columbia University
  • Nanyi Deng, MS Candidate, Applied Analytics, School of Professional Studies, Columbia University
  • Peter Broadwell, Research Developer, Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research, Stanford University
  • Michelle Odlum, EdD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
  • Nicole J Davis, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Clemson University.
  • Carmela Alcantara, PhD, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, CU.
  • Mary Mittelman, Dr. PH, Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Grossman Department of Medicine, NYU

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Digital Phenotyping of Sleep Patterns Among Heterogenous Samples of Latinx Adults using Unsupervised Learning

  • Ipek Ensari, Associate Research Scientist, The Data Science Institute, Columbia University
  • Billy Caceres, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Columbia University
  • Kasey Jackman, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Columbia University
  • Niurka Suero-Tejeda, Project Director, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Columbia University
  • Additional Team Members: Ari Shechter, Michelle Odlum, Suzanne Bakken

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The HHEAR Data Repository: Facilitating Environmental Health and Exposome Research Through Data Science, Harmonization, and Accessibility

  • Jeanette Stingone, Assistant Professor, Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

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Using ‘Big Data’ To Explore and Identify Potential Risk Factors for Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer

  • Lulu Zhang, Data Associate, Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
  • Jianjiu Chen, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
  • Piero Dalerba, Assistant Professor, Dept of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
  • Mary Beth Terry, Professor of Epidemiology (in Environmental Health Sciences), Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
  • Faculty Advisor: Wan Yang, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

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Supervised Topic Modeling for Predicting Chemical Substructure from Mass Spectrometry

  • Jaan Altosaar, Postdoctoral Officer of Research, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  • Faculty Advisor: Noémie Elhadad, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University

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Exploring Gender Disparities in Time to Diagnosis

  • Tony Sun, PhD Candidate, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  • Jennifer Chen, MA Student, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  • Oliver Bear Don’t Walk, PhD Candidate, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  • Harry Reyes Nieva, PhD Candidate, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  • Jaan Altosaar, Postdoctoral Officer of Research, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  • Faculty Advisor: Noémie Elhadad, Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University

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UltraProcessed Food Proxy Gene Signature Associated with Inflammation in Patients with Crohn’s Disease

  • Kathryn Whyte, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
  • Faculty Advisor: Dympna Gallagher, Professor of Nutritional Medicine (in Medicine and in the Institute of Human Nutrition) at the Columbia University Medical Center

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A Neuro-Symbolic Method for Understanding Free-text Medical Evidence

  • Tian Kang, PhD Candidate, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Graduate School of Arts and Science
  • Ali Turfah, MA Candidate, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Graduate School of Arts and Science
  • Jaehyun Kim, Research Scientist, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Graduate School of Arts and Science
  • Adler Perotte, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Graduate School of Arts and Science
  • Faculty Advisor: Chunhua Weng, Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University

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Heat Stress Non-Linear, Exposure-Lag-Response Case-Crossover Analysis

  • Stephen Lewandowski, PhD Candidate, Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
  • Faculty Advisor: Jeffrey Shaman, Professor, Environmental Health Sciences (in the International Research Institute for Climate and Society/Earth Institute); and Director, Climate and Health Program, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

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Evaluation of Effectiveness of Mitigation Strategies for COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Shanghong Xie, Postdoctoral Researcher, Biostatistics, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
  • Qinxia Wang, PhD Candidate, Biostatistics, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
  • Faculty Advisor: Yuanjia Wang, Professor, Biostatistics, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

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Aligned Accelerometer Data Can Improve Understanding of Chronotypes

  • Erin McDonnell, PhD Candidate, Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
  • Vadim Zipunnikov, Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
  • Jennifer Schrack, Associate Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
  • Julia Wrobel, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
  • Faculty Advisor: Jeff Goldsmith, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health

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FlyBrainLab: a Complete Programming Environment for Discovering the Functional Logic of the Fruit Fly Brain

  • Aurel A. Lazar, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Co-Director of the Center for Neural Engineering and Computation, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia Engineering
  • Tingkai Liu, PhD Candidate, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia Engineering
  • Mehmet Kerem Turkcan, PhD Candidate, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
  • Yiyin Zhou, Associate Research Scientist, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia Engineering

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Classifying Coding and Noncoding Regions of the Genome Using Only Sequence Data: A Study using Deep and Interpretable Neural Networks

  • Shruti Verma, Undergraduate Student, Computer Science Department, Columbia Engineering
  • Faculty Advisor: Xuebing Wu, Assistant Professor, Department of Systems Biology and Department of Medicine

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Emotional Brain State Classification on fMRI data using 3D Residual Neural Networks

  • Xiaofu He,Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
  • Maxime Tchibozo, Data Science Institute, Columbia University (Alumni)
  • Zijing Wang, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
  • Donggeun Kim, New York State Psychiatric Institute

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Temporal Signal Within Vital Signs Precedes Delayed Cerebral Ischemia Diagnosis

  • Kalijah Terilli,Research Assistant, Program for Hospital and Intensive Care Informatics, Columbia University Medical Center
  • Murad Megjhani, Associate Research Scientist, Program for Hospital and Intensive Care Informatics, Columbia University Medical Center
  • Faculty Advisor: Soojin Park, Associate Professor of Neurology, Program for Hospital and Intensive Care Informatics, Columbia University Medical Center

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