Director of GenAI Health lab
Helen Chen, Professor of Practice; Director Professional Practice Centre In Health Systems
Office: Toby Jenkins Building (TJB) 2272
Phone: 519-888-4567, ext. 42131
Email: helen.chen@uwaterloo.ca
Beth Horodyski
PhD Candidate
Research interests:
- Disruptive Innovation Evaluation in Health Technology
- GenAI and Quantum systems in support of human health and performance
Bing Hu
PhD Candidate
Research Interests:
- Synthetic Data
- Drug Discovery using AI
Edson Kenzo Takei
Student Member
Research Interests:
- AI in Healthcare
Genevieve Lee
Student Member
Research Interest:
- Predictive abilities of anonymous online chat forums to study health behaviours
- Previously inaccessible minoritized group
Jacie Jermier
MSc Candidate
Research Interests:
- Advancing discovery through computational methods
- Whole-body metabolism models, with a particular emphasis on liver function and its role in metabolic processes
Mikayla Neeb
MSc Candidate
Research Interests
- Responsible use of LLMs in qualitative research
- Long-term management of chronic pain
Nauman Shakeel
PhD Candidate
Research Interests:
- Applications of generative AI in public health
Ping Yen
MSc Candidate
Research interests:
- Time-series data analysis
- Synthetic data generation
Raushan Baisalova
MSc Candidate
Research Interests:
- AI in Healthcare
- Generative AI
Ying Zhu
PhD Candidate
Research Interests:
- Healthcare finances and digital transformation
- Role of governance in health data visualization
- AI-ready data repositories
Yixin Li
MSc Candidate
Research Interests:
- Synthetic data
- Machine learning for privacy
Ziting Shen
PhD Candidate
Research interests:
- Applications of ML healthcare
- Algorithmic fairness
- Data privacy rights