Health Information Privacy Laboratory

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

Core Students & Staff
Steve Nyemba, M.S.
Research Engineer
 Yongtai Liu
Ph.D. Student in
Computer Science
Grayson Ruhl
Ph.D. Student in
Biomedical Informatics		 Zhiyu Wan
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		 Ziqi Zhang
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 		James Gaupp
(Software Engineer)
Now a software engineer at Kansas
University Medical Center
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
Muqun (Rachel) Li, Ph.D.
(Ph.D. in Computer Science)
Now a Data Scientist at Privacy Analytics, Inc.		 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		 Wei Xie, Ph.D.
(Ph.D. Student in Computer Science)
Now at a start-up in stealth mode
Reyyan Yeniterzi
(Visiting student)
now an Assistant Professor at
Ozyegin University 		Zhijun Yin, Ph.D.
((Ph.D. Student in Computer Science)
Now an Assistant Professor of Biomedical
Informatics at Vanderbilt University
Weijie Yu
(M.S. in Computer Science)		 Wen Zhang, Ph.D.
(Ph.D. in Computer Science)
now a Data Scientist at
Morgan Stanley

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)