June 18, 2025

Joe Emanuel

Joe Emanuel is a PhD Student in Informatics. His research interests include geospatial data privacy, differential privacy, and cybersecurity.

June 18, 2025

Zaynab Shakkour

I am a PhD student in Bioinformatics with a Master’s degree in Neuroscience from the University of Missouri. My scientific interests center on leveraging cutting-edge tools in bioinformatics and AI to enhance personalized diagnoses and improve treatment strategies. My current research focuses on autism and rare diseases, combining neurogenomics and informatics to uncover genetic underpinnings that enable subgroup discovery and advance precision medicine through drug repurposing. I am excited to serve as Secretary of the Graduate Student Organization and look forward to helping build a more connected and supportive student community!

June 18, 2025

Maryam Seifaddini

I’m Maryam, a researcher focused on subgroup discovery and pattern mining in health data. My work centers on developing innovative, AI-driven methods to integrate and extract meaningful insights from diverse omics datasets.

June 18, 2025

Tiyasha Guha

I’m Tiyasha Guha, a Master’s student in Data Science and Analytics at the University of Missouri – Columbia. As the MS Representative for the Graduate Student Organization (MUIDSI-GSO), I aim to foster collaboration among students across healthcare, engineering, and data science domains. My current research focuses on geospatial analysis of leukemia risk factors using national health datasets, and I bring prior industry experience as a Software Development Engineer. I’m passionate about applying data-driven approaches to solve real-world problems and supporting a vibrant, inclusive academic community.

Nov. 28, 2023

Deshan Wattegama

Deshan Wattegama is a Ph.D. student in the IDAS lab following a health informatics Ph.D. program. He worked as a senior software engineer for over 4 years and has domain knowledge in supply chain management, stock brokering, etc. He is interested in the usage of blockchain and AI in healthcare systems and using VR, and AR technologies to improve the quality of healthcare systems.

Dec. 28, 2016

Chi-Ren Shyu

Chi-Ren Shyu (he/him/his) is Director of MUIDSI, Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Strategic Initiatives, and Chair of the Executive Committee for the Mizzou Quantum Innovation Center. Dr. Shyu has organized and chaired technical program committees for several IEEE conferences, including IEEE HealthCom, IEEE BigMM, IEEE BIBM, and IEEE BIBE. He represents MU on the Southeast Conference (SEC) Artificial Intelligence Consortium and the Missouri Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development’s Advisory Committee for Building Missouri’s AI Talent Pipeline (2026). He is the PI of Mizzou’s NSF CyberCorps SFS project ($3.6M). Since joining MU in 2000, Dr. Shyu has…