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This Directory includes Faculty, Staff, Students, and Alumni selectable by category, search or alphabetical by last name. Over 110 students have graduated from the Department of Biomedical Informatics (25+ PhD, 50+ MS, 25+ Certificate). The diversity of careers available to DBMI alumnus is evident in their biographies. Many of our graduates are teaching and performing research in academic institutions, such as Vanderbilt University, Arizona State University, and New York University while others have entered private industry with companies such as Cerner Corporation and Boston Scientific; some have positions in government agencies, such as the NIH and AHRQ, while others are at major medical centers, serving in roles such as Chief Medical Information Officer. We maintain a database of the career paths of our graduates. If you are an alumnus, please contact us if you would like to submit or update information!
Ye Ye
Biography
Titles:
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Research Interests:
Dr. Ye research mainly focused on developing and applying artificial intelligence techniques and statistical methods to analyze large-scale healthcare data and social media data for infectious disease population surveillance, population health informatics, clinical decision support, health care quality improvement, healthcare cost reduction, and pathology informatics.
Education
· Ph.D., Intelligent Systems 2018
School of Computing and Information, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
· MSPH, Public Health Informatics 2011
Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
· MS, Epidemiology and Health Statistics 2009
School of Public Health, Health Science Center, Peking University, Beijing, China
· Bachelor of Medicine, Preventive Medicine 2006
School of Public Health, Health Science Center, Peking University, Beijing, China
Research Grants
· R00LM013383 Transfer learning to improve the re-usability of computable biomedical knowledge https://reporter.nih.gov/search/iUXvwIHfkU62mTbGsuCZYg/project-details/10589998 2022-2025
Role: PI
· K99LM013383 (2020-2022) Transfer learning to improve the re-usability of computable biomedical knowledge https://grantome.com/grant/NIH/K99-LM013383-01 2020-2022
Role: PI, Primary Mentor: Dr. Michael Becich
Collaborative Grants
· R01LM013509 Automated Surveillance of Overlapping Outbreaks and New Outbreak Diseases (PI: Dr. Gregory F. Cooper) 2021-2024
· U24 OH009077 National Mesothelioma Virtual Bank, Continued Innovation (PI: Dr. Michael J. Becich) 2022-
· R01 LM011370 Probabilistic Disease Surveillance (PI: Michael Wagner) 2013-2017 (finished)
Honors
2011 Delta Omega Honor Society in Public Health
2013 Finalist in Michael G. Wells Student Health Care Entrepreneurship Competition, University of Pittsburgh
2014 Best Statistical Science Theoretical Paper (3rd author), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2014 Distinguished Poster Award (2nd author), American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium
2015 Distinguished Poster Award (3rd author), American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium
2016 Innovator Award, University of Pittsburgh
2019 American Medical Informatics Association Doctoral Dissertation Award Finalist
Service
Editorial Board. Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 2017 – Present
Reviewer. Journal of Biomedical Informatics
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
American Journal of Public Health
The BMJ
Journal of Medical Internet Research
Online Journal of Public Health Informatics
Journal of Innovation in Health Informatics International Journal of Medical Informatics
Journal of Public Health Management and Practice
Computers in Biology and Medicine
American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium