Health Information Privacy Laboratory

Faculty
Bradley Malin, Ph.D.
Professor, Director

Core Students & Staff
Victor Borza
Ph.D. Student in
Biomedical Informatics		 Thomas Brown
Ph.D. Student in
Biomedical Informatics
Jia Guo, M.S.
Ph.D. Student in
Computer Science
 Yongtai Liu
Ph.D. Student in
Computer Science
Steve Nyemba, M.S.
Research Engineer
 Zhiyu Wan, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral
Research Rellow
Weiyi Xia, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral
Research Fellow		 Chao Yan, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral
Research Fellow
Ziqi Zhang
Ph.D. Student in
Computer Science

Alumni
Rueben Banalagay
(Undergrad Intern)
now an Electrical Engineering Ph.D.
student at Vanderbilt		 Kathleen Benitez
(Software Engineer)
Jenna Careccia
(Undergrad Intern)
now a software developer
 Doxa Chatzopoulou, M.S.
(Software Engineer)
now a software engineer at UCLA
You Chen, Ph.D.
(Post-docoral Fellow)
Now an Assistant Professor of Biomedical
Informatics and Computer Science at Vanderbilt 		Yuhao Chen
(Undergrad Intern)
now a software engineer at Microsoft
Ezra Chu
(Undergrad Intern)
now a senior software engineer
at Salesforce		 Alec Coston
(Undergrad Intern)
Elizabeth Ashley Durham, Ph.D.
(Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics)
now a Director for Real World Evidence
at AstraZeneca 		Eli Gadd
(Undergrad Intern)
now a Senior Software Engineer at Apple
James Gaupp
(Software Engineer)
Now a software engineer at Kansas
University Medical Center 		Abinitha Gourabathina
(Undergrad Intern)
Visiting from Princeton
Raymond Heatherly, Ph.D.
(Post-doctoral Fellow)
now a Data Scientist at Realtor.com
 Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis, Ph.D
(Post-doctoral Fellow)
now a Research Scientist
at IBM Watson Health
Charles Keil
(Undergrad Intern)
now a software engineer at Vanderbilt
 Grigorios Loukides, Ph.D.
(Post-doctoral Fellow)
now an Associate Professor
at King's College London
Muqun (Rachel) Li, Ph.D.
(Ph.D. in Computer Science)
Now a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Apple		 Thomas Li
(Undergrad Intern)
Visiting from Duke
now an M.D./Ph.D. Student at Vanderbilt
Khanhly Nguyen
(Undergrad Intern)
Visiting from Utah
Now a Software Engineer at PluralSight 		John Paulett
(M.S. in Biomedical Informatics)
now CTO at Equium Intelligence
Grayson Ruhl
Nowa Product Analyst at
HCA Healthcare		 Mostafa Shamsuddin
(Undergrad Intern)
now an electrical engineer
Adarsh Subbaswamy
(Undergrad Intern)
now a CS Ph.D. student at
Johns Hopkins University 		Lina Sulieman, Ph.D.
(M.S. in Biomedical Informatics)
now a Research Assistant Professor of
Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt
Acar Tamersoy, Ph.D.
(M.S. in Biomedical Informatics)
now a Research Scientist
at NortonLifeLock Research Group		 Jian Tian
(Undergrad Researcher)
Michelle Tin
(Undergrad Intern)
visiting from Notre Dame		 Csaba Toth
(Software Engineer)
now coding in California
Wei Xie, Ph.D.
(Ph.D. Student in Computer Science)
Now at a start-up in stealth mode		 Reyyan Yeniterzi, Ph.D.
(Visiting student)
now an Assistant Professor at
Sabanci University
Zhijun Yin, Ph.D.
((Ph.D. Student in Computer Science)
Now an Assistant Professor of Biomedical
Informatics and Computer Science at
Vanderbilt University		 Stanley Xiang
Undergrad Intern
Weijie Yu
(M.S. in Computer Science)		 Wen Zhang, Ph.D.
(Ph.D. in Computer Science)
now a Data Scientist at
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