Hong An

Dr. Hong An is the Assistant Director of the Bioinformatics and Analytics Core, with an Adjunct Assistant Professor appointment at the Division of Plant Science and Technology.

Edward Mirielli

Dr. Edward Mirielli joined our program as Associate Teaching Professor of Data Science and Analytics in June 2021 and brings years of industry and academic experience to the DSA Program. Ed holds a Master’s Degree in Sociology with emphasis in epidemiology/demography and a Ph.D. in Rural Sociology emphasizing applied statistics and the application of computing to the research process; both degrees are from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has engaged in demography & epidemiology of “big-data” during times when the health of the nation was of significant concern – both now, and in the past studying geographic patterns of mortality. …

Ilker Ersoy

Lori Popejoy

My professional nursing career has spanned about 30 years. In my early practice I worked primarily in intensive care nursing. The majority of that time I was in mid-level management. During my mid-career, I worked primarily in the nursing home setting as a study coordinator for several large nursing home research projects. From there, I reentered the management role as the Director of Nursing for Sinclair Home Care, which was the practice site for a study about aging in place. My work experience, which has included hospitals, nursing homes, and home health, has great depth and has inspired me to…

Timothy Green

Dr. Green is an instructor responsible for the development and teaching of an online health data science and predictive analytics course, covering health ethics and regulations, and basic and advanced statistical methods for health data analysis.at MU Institute for Data Science and Informatics. He is also the Chief Data Scientist at EquipmentShare.com responsible for the development of a data science, predictive analytics, and business intelligence program for the leading heavy equipment industry telematics platform.

Trupti Joshi

Dr. Trupti Joshi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics and Medical Epidemiology (BBME) in the School of Medicine (SOM), with a joint appointment with Department of Plant Sciences and Technology (DPST) at University of Missouri-Columbia (MU). She also has Core Faculty appointments with MU Data Science and Informatics Institute (MUIDSI), Interdisciplinary Plant Group (IPG), Christopher S. Bond Life Science Center (LSC), and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). Dr. Joshi served as Director of Translation Bioinformatics with School of Medicine from 2015-2020 and currently serves as a Faculty Lead for Translational Bioinformatics for…