June 23, 2025
Qian Liu
Dr. Liu received her Ph.D. degree of Earth System and Geoinformation Science in May 2022 from George Mason University (GMU). Her research focuses on four aspects: 1. Climate and atmospheric factor detection, segmentation, and retrieval using artificial intelligence (AI) technologies; 2. Spatiotemporal theories and analysis in big earth data; 3. Remote sensing and climate/environmental data record processing and generation; 4. The ability of using the above to solve pressing issues in extreme weather events, climate change and natural disasters.
June 23, 2025
James McClay
Dr. McClay is a professor in the newly organized Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics, and Medical Epidemiology department at the University of Missouri. He is the Chief Research Informatics Officer for the School of Medicine and the Co-principal investigator for the Greater Plains Collaborative Research Network, a PCORnet Clinical Data Research Network. His research and advocacy focus on standardizing evidence-generation pipelines for learning health systems. Dr. McClay is a long-standing Health Level Seven (HL7) workgroup chair, instructor, and advocate for the HL7 FHIR specifications. He has practiced Emergency Medicine for 30 years and is a Fellow and informatics leader for the…
April 8, 2025
Hatef Dastour
Dr. Hatef Dastour joined the MU Institute for Data Science and Informatics as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Data Science and Analytics in April 2025. He specializes in geomatics, remote sensing, data fusion, geospatial analytics, big data analytics, and mathematical and statistical modeling. His research integrates advanced computational methods to address critical challenges in environmental processes, climate change, water resources, and natural hazard management. He holds dual Ph.D. degrees in Applied Mathematics and Geomatics Engineering, with a focus on computational methods and geospatial analysis for environmental sustainability, climate change adaptation, and water resource management. His interdisciplinary research applies…
Nov. 18, 2024
Chau Tong
My current research in computational health communication involves applying natural language processing and other computational methods to analyze the vicissitudes of user-generated health content and the diffusion of such content on social media. I direct the Computational Communication and Technology lab at Mizzou; our research team includes undergraduate RAs, graduate RAs, and PhD students. The lab is an interdisciplinary hub for the organization, curation, and processing of digital trace and social media data. Together, we develop and implement rigorous research to produce insights into the digital landscape of health content and estimated impact of such communication flows across news,…
June 27, 2024
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.
June 26, 2024
John Robert Bautista
Dr. John Robert Bautista uses a socio-technical strategy to understand the role and impact of technologies (smartphones, social media, blockchain, and artificial intelligence) among health professionals and consumers. As an interdisciplinary researcher, he utilizes concepts from communication, information, psychological, and organizational sciences to understand the use of health information technology based on qualitative and quantitative data. His current research focuses on designing, developing, and deploying AI in health that is effective, efficient, and ethical. His articles appear in Computers in Human Behavior, International Journal of Medical Informatics, JAMIA, New Media & Society, JMIR Public Health and Surveillance and Telematics…
Feb. 13, 2024
Mai-Lan Ho
Mai-Lan Ho, MD, is an accomplished neuroradiology physician-scientist and leader specializing in the full scope of advanced imaging. Dr. Ho has clinical expertise in advanced neuroimaging techniques and genotype-phenotype correlation in complex diseases. Her research focus involves radiologic technology development, quantitative image analysis and imaging genomics. Dr. Ho also leads multiple national and international initiatives for data science and precision health and serves on national/international society committees and editorial boards dedicated to advanced imaging and AI. Dr. Ho’s research program involves the three key focus areas of translational advanced imaging, imaging genomics and artificial intelligence, improving imaging technology, implementation…
Feb. 12, 2024
Baekkwan Park
Dr. Park is an Associate Professor in the Truman School of Government & Public Affairs and the Institute for Data Science and Informatics. He received his Ph.D. from Emory University. His research focuses on human rights, international relations, and research methods.
Nov. 29, 2023
Kannappan Palaniappan
Kannappan Palaniappan is a Curators’ Distinguished Professor in electrical engineering and computer science. He has received several notable awards, including the National Academies Jefferson Science Fellowship (first in Missouri), the NASA Public Service Medal for pioneering contributions to (Big Data) scientific visualization of petabyte-sized archives, the Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship, the Boeing Welliver Summer Faculty Fellowship, and MU’s William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence. At NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, he co-founded the Visualization and Analysis Lab that has produced a number of spectacular Digital Earth visualizations used by search engines (BlueMarble), museums, magazines and broadcast television. He…