Health Information Privacy Laboratory

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

Core Students & Staff
Victor Borza
M.D./Ph.D. Student in
Biomedical Informatics
 James (Thomas) Brown, M.S.
Ph.D. Student in
Biomedical Informatics
Jia Guo, M.S.
Ph.D. Student in
Computer Science
 Zhouhang Li, M.S.
Ph.D. Student in
Computer Science
Steve Nyemba, M.S.
Research Engineer
 Zhiyu Wan
Post-doctoral Research
Fellow
Weiyi Xia, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral
Research Fellow		 Stanley Xiang
Undergrad Intern
Chao Yan, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research
Fellow

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 Merative (formerly IBM Watson)
Charles Keil
(Undergrad Intern)
now a software engineer at Vanderbilt
 Yongtai Liu, Ph.D.
(Ph.D. in Computer Science)
Now a Data Scientist
at Google
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 Data Scientist at Apple
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, Ph.D.
(M.S. in Biomedical Informatics)
now an Assistant Professor of
Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt
Acar Tamersoy, Ph.D.
(M.S. in Biomedical Informatics)
now a Research Scientist
at Norton Labs		 Jian Tian
(Undergrad Researcher)
now a software engineer at CGI
Michelle Tin
(Undergrad Intern)
became 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. in Computer Science)
Now at a start-up in stealth mode		 Reyyan Yeniterzi, Ph.D.
(Visiting student)
now Lead Data Scientist at
Quantum Black (McKinsey)
Zhijun Yin, Ph.D.
((Ph.D. in Computer Science)
Now an Assistant Professor of Biomedical
Informatics and Computer Science
at Vanderbilt University		 Weijie Yu
(M.S. in Computer Science)
Wen Zhang, Ph.D.
(Ph.D. in Computer Science)
now a Data Scientist at
Facebook 		Ziqi Zhang, Ph.D.
(Ph.D. in Computer Science)
Now a Data Scientist
at Amazon