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
Research interests:
- Disruptive Innovation Evaluation in Health Technology
- GenAI and Quantum systems in support of human health and performance
Bing Hu
Research Interests:
- Synthetic Data
- Drug Discovery using AI
Christopher Lo
Research Interests:
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LLM-based analysis of online health discourse on Reddit, including vaccine hesitancy and public sentiment
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Digital health solutions to improve patient engagement and chronic disease management
Edson Kenzo Takei
Research Interests:
- AI in Healthcare
Genevieve Lee
Research Interest:
- Predictive abilities of anonymous online chat forums to study health behaviours
- Previously inaccessible minoritized group
Jacie Jermier
Research Interests:
- Advancing discovery through computational methods
- Whole-body metabolism models, with a particular emphasis on liver function and its role in metabolic processes
Joanna Dong
Research Interests:
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AI in Healthcare
- Applications of generative AI in public health
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Applications of ML healthcare
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Responsible use of LLMs in qualitative research
Jonathan Young-Man Lee
Research Interests:
- LLM‑based analysis of large‑scale Reddit data for public‑health signals and emotional trends.
- Clinical conversational AI for Parkinson’s disease using acoustic and linguistic biomarkers.
- Evaluation of GenAI and agentic systems for reliable, interpretable healthcare integration.
Mikayla Neeb
Research Interests
- Responsible use of LLMs, particularly in qualitative research
- Use of Reddit data for public sentiment analysis
- Long-term management of chronic pain
- Food safety
Nauman Shakeel
Research Interests:
- Applications of generative AI in public health
Onur Kilinc
Research Interests:
- Large scale scheduling
- Intersection of data, optimization and decision making within healthcare information technologies
- Agentic AI and optimization for real world challenges
Ping Yen
Research interests:
- Time-series data analysis
- Synthetic data generation
- Synthetic Data Privacy & Fidelity
Raushan Baisalova
Research Interests:
- AI in Healthcare
- Generative AI
Salman Basha Shaik
Research Interests:
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Generative AI and Synthetic Data
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Evaluation of Generative AI Systems
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Health Informatics
Saravana Rajan
Research interests:
- AI-Driven operational decision support systems
- AI-Native data architecture for healthcare systems
- Agentic AI systems for healthcare workflows and operations
Ying Zhu
Research Interests:
- Healthcare finances and digital transformation
- Role of governance in health data visualization
- AI-ready data repositories
Yixin Li
Research Interests:
- Synthetic data
- Machine learning for privacy
Ziting Shen
Research interests:
- Applications of ML healthcare
- Algorithmic fairness
- Data privacy rights