Helen Chen

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Director, Professional Practice Centre In Health Systems

Cross appointments with Statistics and Actuarial Science, and Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Helen Chen

Contact information

Office: TBJ 2272

Phone: 519-888-4567, ext. 42131

Fax: 519-888-4362

Email: helen.chen@uwaterloo.ca

Website: Professional Practice Centre in Health Systems

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.