Bradley Malin, Ph.D.
Vanderbilt University

Associate Professor of
Biomedical Informatics &
Computer Science

Vice Chair for Research in the
Dept. of Biomedical Informatics

Director of the
Health Information Privacy Laboratory

Research (Areas: Data Mining, Privacy, Biomedical Informatics)

I have broad research interests in data mining, management, and trustworthy computing. The majority of my research focuses on the construction and evaluation of data privacy models for personal information that is collected, stored, and shared in large complex systems. My goal is to design technology that is accountable to organizational, social, and legal regulations. I am particularly interested in 1) anomaly detection strategies for electronic medical records and 2) sharing clinical and genetic information for research purposes without violating privacy expectations.

Students

Check out the people page at the lab's home on the Web.

Teaching

Fall 2012: Foundations of Biomedical Informatics (BMIF-300) [team taught]
Spring 2013: Data Privacy in Biomedicine (BMIF-380 / CS-396)

Service

Editorial Board, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Guest editorial for the special issue on biomedical data privacy

Editorial Board, Methods of Information in Medicine

Editorial Board, Transactions on Data Privacy

Editorial Board, Proceedings of the Very Large Data Bases Endowment (PVLDB)

Scientific Program Co-Chair

PriSMO: IEEE Workshop on Privacy and Security for Moving Objects (@MDM 2013)

Scientific Program Committee

AMIA: 2013 American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium
BigData: IEEE International Conference on Big Data
DILS: 9th International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences
DPM: International Workshop on Data Privacy Management (@ ESORICS)
ICHI: IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics
ISI: IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics
MEDINFO: World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics
PST: 11th International Conference on Privacy, Security, and Trust
SEHC: 5th International Workshop on Software Engineering in Health Care

Positions Available

Post-doctoral researchers, Ph.D. students, and programmers. Work on biomedical data privacy, data mining, and systems implementation. Contact me for details.

News Story ...

... on my work with the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (12/2012)

Invited Talk ...

... at Harvard University's Ethics of Re-identification Workshop (5/10/2013)

News...

... I was featured in Genome Technology magazine's cover story on privacy (5/1/2011)

Recent Letter to Science...

"Data Re-identification: Societal Safeguards"

Recent Accepted Papers...

...to PLoS One:
"Enabling Genomic-Phenomic Association Discovery Without Sacrificing Anonymity"

...to the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association:
"Hiding in Plain Sight: Use of Realistic Surrogates to Reduce Exposure of Protected Health Information in Clinical Text"

...to the 16th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT):
"Efficient Privacy-Aware Record Integration"

Bradley Malin, Ph.D. Vanderbilt University

Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics & Computer Science

Vice Chair for Research in the Dept. of Biomedical Informatics

Director of the Health Information Privacy Laboratory