Health Information Privacy Laboratory

Faculty
Bradley Malin, Ph.D.
Professor, Director		 You Chen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Co-Director

Core Students & Staff
James Gaupp
Software Engineer		 Muqun (Rachel) Li
Ph.D. Student in
Computer Science
Yongtai Liu
Ph.D. Student in
Computer Science		 Zhiyu Wan
Ph.D. Student in
Computer Science
Wei Xie
Ph.D. Student in
Computer Science		 Weiyi Xia, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral
Research Fellow
Stanley Xiang
Undergrad Intern
 Chao Yan
Ph.D. Student in
Computer Science
Zhijun Yin
Ph.D. Student in
Computer Science

HIPLAB 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
(Software Engineer)
now a software engineer
Yuhao Chen
(Undergrad Intern)
now a software engineer at Microsoft 		Ezra Chu
(Undergrad Intern)
now a software developer at Dell
Alec Coston
(Undergrad Intern) 		Elizabeth Ashley Durham, Ph.D.
(Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics)
now an Associate Program Officer at the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Eli Gadd
(Undergrad Intern)
now an engineer at Google 		Raymond Heatherly, Ph.D.
(Post-doctoral Fellow)
now Lead Data Scientist at Shyft Analytics
Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis, Ph.D.
(Post-doctoral Fellow)
now a Research Scientist
at IBM (Cambridge, MA) 		Charles Keil
(Undergrad Intern)
now a software engineer at Vanderbilt
Grigorios Loukides, Ph.D.
(Post-doctoral Fellow)
now faculty at King's College London 		Steve Nyemba
(Software Engineer)
now a Software Engineer at UBS
John Paulett
(M.S. in Biomedical Informatics)
now the lead software engineer at
Health IT startup		 Mostafa Shamsuddin
(Undergrad Intern)
now an electrical engineer
Adarsh Subbaswamy
(Undergrad Intern)
now a CS Ph.D. student at
Johns Hopkins University 		Lina Sulieman
(M.S. in Biomedical Informatics)
now a Ph.D. student at Vanderbilt
Acar Tamersoy, Ph.D.
(M.S. in Biomedical Informatics)
now a Research Scientist
at Symantec Labs		 Jian Tian
(Undergrad Researcher)
now a software engineer at CGI
Michelle Tin
(Undergrad Intern)
now a master's student in Applied Statsistics
at University of Alabama		 Csaba Toth
(Software Engineer)
now coding in California
Reyyan Yeniterzi
(Visiting student)
now an Assistant Professor at
Ozyegin University 		Weijie Yu
(M.S. in Computer Science)
Wen Zhang, Ph.D.
(Ph.D. in Computer Science)
now a Data Scientist at
American Express

Collaborators (Vanderbilt University - School of Medicine)
Ellen Wright Clayton, M.D., J.D.
Nancy Cox, Ph.D.
Josh Denny, M.D.
Todd Edwards, Ph.D.
Daniel Fabbri, Ph.D.
Paul Harris, Ph.D.
Tom Lasko, M.D., Ph.D.
Nancy Lorenzi, Ph.D. (and the Implementation Sciences Laboratory)
Trent Rosenbloom, M.D., M.P.H.
Dan Roden, M.D.

Collaborators (Vanderbilt University - School of Engineering)
Gautam Biswas, Ph.D.
Janos Sztipanovits, Ph.D.
Yevgeniy Vorobeychik, Ph.D.
Yuan Xue, Ph.D.

Collaborators (Beyond Vanderbilt)
Edoardo Airoldi, Ph.D. (Harvard University)
John Aberdeen (MITRE, Corp)
Will Bush, Ph.D. (Case Western Reserve University)
David Carrell, Ph.D. (Group Health Research Institute)
Anupam Datta, Ph.D. (Carngie Mellon University)
Khaled El Emam, Ph.D. (University of Ottawa)
Joydeep Ghosh, Ph.D. (University of Texasa at Austin)
Carl Gunter, Ph.D. (University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champagne)
Lynette Hirschman, Ph.D. (MITRE, Corp)
Wei Jiang, Ph.D. (MUST)
Murat Kantarcioglu, Ph.D. (University of Texas @ Dallas)
Abel Kho, M.D. (Northwestern University)
Jiuyong Li, Ph.D. (University of South Australia)
David Liebovitz, M.D. (Northwestern University Medical Center)
Sanjay Mehrotra, Ph.D. (Northwestern University)
Yucel Saygin, Ph.D. (Sabanci University)
Jimeng Sun, Ph.D. (Georgia Institute of Technology)