Professor of Practice
Director, Professional Practice Centre In Health Systems
Cross appointments with Statistics and Actuarial Science, and Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Contact information
Office: TBJ 2272
Phone: 519-888-4567, ext. 42131
Fax: 519-888-4362
Email: helen.chen@uwaterloo.ca
Websites: Professional Practice Centre in Health Systems, Digital Intelligence for Public Health
Research interests
- Artificial intelligence (AI) for public and population health
- Real world evidence
- Health data quality and analytics
- Generative AI (GenAI) and synthetic data
- AI for learning health systems
- Evaluation of GenAI in health
- Algorithm and application of clinical language processing and understanding
- AI in drug discovery
Teaching interests
- Health informatics
- AI for public health
- Information system design and management
- Health data standards
- Health data security
- Patient consent
Graduate supervision and student opportunities
I am accepting applications from graduate students with research interests related to:
- Generative AI in Health
- Synthetic data generation and evaluation
- Clinical natural language processing and understanding
- Real world data and real world evidence generation
- Advanced health data analytics
- Health data quality
Graduate studies application details
Education
BA Engineering Mechanics (with Honours), Tsinghua University - Beijing, China
MS Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University - Beijing, China
PhD Computational Biomechanics, University of Waterloo
Selected recent publications
See Google Scholar for full list of publications.