The CDH represents a true institutional collaboration among three major UMass campuses with strong project leadership. The project brings together well-established computer scientists, biostatisticians, epidemiologists, clinical practitioners, biomedical researchers, and information security specialists, with a strong record of federal and industry funding and publications.

UMass Lowell

  • Yu Cao
    Yu Cao
    Professor; Director, UMass Center for Digital Health (CDH)
    Miner School of Computer & Information Sciences

    Medical Imaging, Multimodal Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Health

  • Katherine Tucker, Ph.D.
    Katherine Tucker, Ph.D.
    Emerita and Distinguished University Professor; Director Emeritus and Founder of the Center for Population Health (CPH)
    Biomedical & Nutritional Sciences, Health Assessment Laboratory (HAL), Center for Population Health (CPH)

    Nutritional Epidemiology, Dietary Assessment

  • Jong Soo Lee
    Jong Soo Lee
    Associate Professor
    Mathematics & Statistics

    Statistics, Applications of statistics

  • Benyuan Liu, Ph.D.
    Benyuan Liu, Ph.D.
    Professor, Director
    Miner School of Computer & Information Sciences, UMass Center for Digital Health (CDH), Computer Networking Lab, CHORDS

    Data and Computer Communication Networks, Mobile and Wireless Networks, Internet Technologies & Applications

  • Yan Luo, Ph.D.
    Yan Luo, Ph.D.
    Professor
    Electrical & Computer Engineering, Robotics

    Computer Architecture, Network Systems

  • Anna Rumshisky
    Anna Rumshisky
    Associate Professor
    Miner School of Computer & Information Sciences

    Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning

  • Wenjin Zhou
    Wenjin Zhou
    Assistant Professor
    Miner School of Computer & Information Sciences

    Computational Biomedicine, Visualization, Data Science, Machine Learning

Our center also has the following faculty from UMass Medical School and UMass Boston:

UMass Medical School (UMMS)

  • Yunsheng Ma, Ph.D., M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, PI of the NIH funded clinical trial “A simple dietary message to improve dietary quality for metabolic syndrome” and the Women’s Health Initiative ancillary studies
  • Hong Yu, Professor of Quantitative Health Sciences, PI of UMMS Biomedical Informatics Natural Language Processing Group, Elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics
  • J. Herbert Stevenson, M.D., Associate Professor of Family Medicine/Sports Medicine, Director of Sports Medicine and Sports Medicine Fellowship Program

UMass Boston (UMB)

  • Wei Ding, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Director of Knowledge Discovery Lab
  • Jill Macoska, Alton J. Brann Endowed Distinguished Professor in Science and Mathematics, Director of the Center for Personalized Cancer Therapy, and Professor of Biological Sciences
  • Suzanne Leveille, Ph.D., R.N., Professor of Nursing, Interim Associate Dean for Research, College of Nursing and Health Sciences