Dr. Zhe He is Interim Director for Florida State University Institute for Successful Longevity and an Associate Professor in the School of Information (iSchool) at Florida State University. He is also Director of Biostatistics, Informatics, and Research Design (BIRD) Program in the University of Florida-Florida State University Clinical and Translational Science Award Hub. His research expertise includes machine learning, natural language processing, and knowledge representation. The overarching goal of his research is to improve population health and advance biomedical research through the application of informatics and data science. He received his BS from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, his MS from Columbia University, and PhD from New Jersey Institute of Technology, all in Computer Science. He was previously a Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Columbia University Irving Medical Center before joining FSU in 2015. He has published over 130 papers in leading biomedical informatics venues, including JAMIA, JBI, Nature Digital Medicine, JMIR, AMIA, and MEDINFO. His research has been funded by National Institute on Aging, National Library of Medicine, National Institute of Mental Health, and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, including a recently funded NIMH R21/R33 grant on HIV prevention. He is an elected fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association.
