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
Research interests
Artificial intelligence (AI) for public and population health; real world evidence; health data quality and analytics; generative AI and synthetic data; AI for learning health systems
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:
- Real world evidence and data analytics
- Large scale health data query federation
- Health data quality
- Mobile health technology and home monitoring service
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.