Polycarp Nalela

I have a Bachelors degree in Science Technology, Masters degree in Biotechnology, and currently pursing a PhD in Informatics. I have worked with data especially analytics for over 10 years. Initially, I started with R analyzing data from breeding trials…

Noah Marchel

My research interests are in the use pervasive computing and AI for the healthcare domain, with particular focus on novel ad-hoc machine learning models of multi-modal sensor and electronic medical records as components for augmented decision support interfaces. The primary…

Katrina Boles

Prior to receiving a MS in Data Science & Analytics at Mizzou in 2020, Katrina was a motion graphics artist and art director in marketing and communications. She is currently a PhD candidate and a Data Analyst with ECHO Autism.

Mohammad Beheshti

I’m a Health Informatician and PhD student in Health Informatics, specializing in data analytics and data science, with a keen focus on clinical and population data analysis. Currently, I’m a Graduate Research Assistant at the Missouri Cancer Registry and Research…

Sonia Akter

Sonia is pursuing her PhD in Health Informatics at the University of Missouri with a keen focus on the innovative application of machine learning techniques to enable early prediction of Alzheimer’s disease using healthcare data. Sonia completed her BS in…

Olabode Ogundele

I was born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria. I also had my undergraduate education in Nigeria. The Informatics PhD journey has been a huge learning curve, and the unlimited opportunities are inspiring. There are more fun things than studying and…

Trevor Mandy

As a Columbia Native I’ve been lucky enough to call Mizzou my home for 26 years! Coming from a background in healthcare management and finance, my focus area is health and biomedical informatics. My research interests include the application of…

Hua Qin

I am an environmental and resource sociologist with emphasis on human population dynamics and sustainable development. I have a diverse academic background in sociology, demography, geography, human ecology, environmental science, as well as mixed and spatial methodological research. My interdisciplinary…

Ram Raghavan

I am broadly interested in spatially-enabled computational epidemiology of vector-borne and infectious diseases and applications of geospatial approaches for enhancing animal/public health. I extensively use Geographic Information System (GIS) and remote-sensing concepts in my research alongside geo-statistical, correlative modeling, and…