Faculty Directory | Stony Brook Dept of Biomedical Informatics

Core Faculty

		Joel Saltz, MD, PhD Cherith Professor and Founding Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics Vice Chair for Laboratory Initiatives and Digital Medicine in the Department of Pathology Vice President for Clinical Informatics, Stony Brook Medicine Associate Director, Stony Brook Cancer Center Director of Institute for Engineering Medicine HSC L3-043 \| 631-638-1420 \| Joel.Saltz@stonybrookmedicine.edu High end and data intensive computing, Applications of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Pathology Informatics, Large Scale Data Analytics, Clinical Informatics

		Tahsin Kurc, PhD Research Associate Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics MART 7M-0804\| 631-638-0038 \| Tahsin.Kurc@stonybrook.edu High end and data intensive computing, Applications of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Pathology Informatics, Large Scale Data Analytics, Clinical Informatics

		Chao Chen, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics CS 2313C \| 631-632-2593 \| Chao.Chen.1@stonybrook.edu Biomedical image analysis, machine learning, topological data analysis, computer vision

		Ramana V Davuluri, PhD Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics MART \| 631-638-2590 \| Ramana.Davuluri@stonybrookmedicine.edu Bioinformatics; Cancer Genomics; Isoform-level Gene Regulation; Epigenetics; Alternative Promoters and Alternative Splicing.

		Rajarsi Gupta, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics Instructor of Clinical Pathology MART 7M-0806 \| 631-638-1330\| Rajarsi.Gupta@stonybrook.edu Medical Physics, Molecular Biophysics, and Biochemistry with an emphasis on spectroscopic molecular methods. Current work in Artificial Intelligence and Machine-Learning applications

		Janos Hajagos, PhD Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics Chief of Data Analytics BMI Chief Security Officer HSC L3-012 \| 631-444-1596 \| Janos.Hajagos@stonybrook.edu Healthcare Data Analytics

		Veena Lingam, MD Program Director, Clinical Informatics Fellowship HSC L3-045 \| 631-444-8478 \| Veena.Lingam@stonybrookmedicine.edu

		Tengfei Ma, Ph.D. Assistant Professor MART7M-0810 \| 631-638-2271 \| Tengfei.Ma@stonybrookmedicine.edu

		Rachel Wong, MD Assistant Program Director, Clinical Informatics Fellowship

		Prateek Prasanna, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics MART 7M-0808\| 631-216-2727 \| Prateek.Prasanna@stonybrook.edu Imaging Informatics, Radiomics, Multi-scale data integration, Applied Machine Learning

		Fusheng Wang, PhD Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics CS 2313D \| 631-632-2598 \| Fusheng.Wang@stonybrook.edu Scalable Big Data Management, GIS, Medical Imaging Informatics, Population Health and Opioid Epidemic Research, AI in Healthcare, Assistive Technologies

		Zhaozheng Yin, PhD SUNY Empire Innovation Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics CS 2313B \| 631-632-2595 \| Zhaozheng.Yin@stonybrook.edu Biomedical Image Analysis, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Cyber-Physical Systems, Human-Robot Collaboration
		Alisa Yurovsky, PhD IDEA Fellow, Lecturer 631-461-1280 \| Alisa.Yurovsky@stonybrookmedicine.edu

Affiliated Clinical Informatics Faculty

		Sritha Rajupet, MD Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Population & Preventive Medicine Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics Director of Population-Based Health Initiatives Deputy Director Graduate Medical Education Renaissance School of Medicine

		Laura Fochtmann, MD, MBI Professor, Department of Psychiatry Office \| 631-444-1607 \| Laura.Fochtmann@stonybrookmedicine.edu

		Gerald Kelly, DO, ABF Clinical Associate Professor Chief Medical Information Officer, Stony Brook Medicine Office \| 631-444-4644 \| Gerald.Kelly@stonybrookmedicine.edu

		Kartik Mani, MD, PhD Clinical Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology HSC L2-643 \| Phone \| Kartik.Mani@stonybrookmedicine.edu

		Mary M. Saltz, MD Clinical Associate Professor, Departments of Radiology, Biomedical Informatics Chief Clinical Integration Officer for Community Practice Initiatives Stony Brook Cancer Center Chief Medical Information Officer Suffolk County DSRIP Chief Clinical Lead HSC L3-045 C \| Phone \| Mary.Saltz@stonybrookmedicine.edu

		A. Laurie W. Shroyer, PhD, MSHA Professor of Surgery Vice Chair for Research Assistant Dean for Educational Research HSC T19-07 \| 631-444-7680 \| AnnieLaurie.Shroyer@stonybrookmedicine.edu

		Mathew Tharakan, MD Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine HSC 020 \| Phone \| Mathew.Tharakan@stonybrookmedicine.edu

Affiliated Faculty

		Jonas Almeida, PhD Senior Investigator, NIH/NCI/DCEG Chief Data Scientist HSC L4-170 \| Phone \| Jonas.Almeida@stonybrookmedicine.edu

		Richard Moffitt, PhD Associate Professor, Hematology and Medical Oncology/Biomedical Informatics Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University 631-638-2271 \| Richard.Moffitt@stonybrookmedicine.edu

		James Davis, MD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology Medical Director, Stony Brook BioBank HSC L2 706 \| 631-444-3360 \| James.Davis@stonybrookmedicine.edu

		Dimitris Samaras, PhD Professor, Department of Computer Science CSE Room 263 \| 631-632-8464 \| samaras@cs.sunysb.edu

		Lourdes Bello-Espinosa, MD Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics HSC T12, Room 020 \| 631-444-2599 \| Lourdes.Bello-Espinosa@stonybrook.edu

		Mark Henry, MD Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine HSC L4-080 \| 631-444-2461 \| Mark.Henry@stonybrookmedicine.edu

		Lawrence Hurst, MD Professor, Department of Orthopaedics HSC T18-02 \| 631-444-3145 \| Lawrence.Hurst@stonybrookmedicine.edu

		Arie Kaufman, PhD Professor, Department of Computer Science 203G New Computer Science \| 631-632-8441 \| ari@cs.sunysb.edu

		I.V. Ramakrishnan, PhD Professor, Department of Computer Science Office \| 631-632-8451 \| ram@cs.stonybrook.edu Artificial Intelligence, Computational Logic, Machine Learning/Computational Logic Combination, Information Retrieval, Computer Accessibility

		Margaret Schedel, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Music Director, cDACT (Consortium for Digital Arts, Culture and Technology) 3304 Staller Center \| 631-632-8610 \| Margaret.Schedel@stonybrook.edu

		Elinor Schoenfeld, PhD Research Professor HSC L3-104 \| 631-632-2457 \| Elinor.Schoenfeld@stonybrookmedicine.edu Community Engaged Research; Addressing Health Disparities; Sensor Data Use for Health; Screening and Early Detection of Disease; Cancer Epidemiology; Cancer Prevention; Diabetes Epidemiology, Data management and informatics


		George Teodoro, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, UnB University of Brazil Office \| Phone \| Email

		Daniel Weymouth, PhD Associate Professor and Director of cDact 3332 Staller Center \| 631-632-7345 \| Daniel.Weymouth@stonybrook.edu

		Vincent Yang, MD, PhD Chair of Medicine HSC 022 \| 631-444-2066 \| Vincent.Yang@stonybrookmedicine.edu

		Wei Zhu, PhD Professor and Deputy Chair, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics 1-116 Mathematics Bldg \| 631-632-8374 \| Wei.Zhu@stonybrook.edu

		Hants Williams, PhD, RN Clinical Assistant Professor, Applied Health Informatics School of Health Professions hants.williams@stonybrook.edu
		Mehdi Damaghi, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology Stony Brook Cancer Center 631-216-2920 \| mehdi.damaghi@stonybrookmedicine.edu

		Joel Saltz, MD, PhD Cherith Professor and Founding Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics Vice Chair for Laboratory Initiatives and Digital Medicine in the Department of Pathology Vice President for Clinical Informatics, Stony Brook Medicine Associate Director, Stony Brook Cancer Center Director of Institute for Engineering Medicine HSC L3-043 \| 631-638-1420 \| Joel.Saltz@stonybrookmedicine.edu High end and data intensive computing, Applications of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Pathology Informatics, Large Scale Data Analytics, Clinical Informatics

		Tahsin Kurc, PhD Research Associate Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics MART 7M-0804\| 631-638-0038 \| Tahsin.Kurc@stonybrook.edu High end and data intensive computing, Applications of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Pathology Informatics, Large Scale Data Analytics, Clinical Informatics

		Chao Chen, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics CS 2313C \| 631-632-2593 \| Chao.Chen.1@stonybrook.edu Biomedical image analysis, machine learning, topological data analysis, computer vision

		Ramana V Davuluri, PhD Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics MART \| 631-638-2590 \| Ramana.Davuluri@stonybrookmedicine.edu Bioinformatics; Cancer Genomics; Isoform-level Gene Regulation; Epigenetics; Alternative Promoters and Alternative Splicing.

		Rajarsi Gupta, MD, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics Instructor of Clinical Pathology MART 7M-0806 \| 631-638-1330\| Rajarsi.Gupta@stonybrook.edu Medical Physics, Molecular Biophysics, and Biochemistry with an emphasis on spectroscopic molecular methods. Current work in Artificial Intelligence and Machine-Learning applications

		Janos Hajagos, PhD Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics Chief of Data Analytics BMI Chief Security Officer HSC L3-012 \| 631-444-1596 \| Janos.Hajagos@stonybrook.edu Healthcare Data Analytics

		Veena Lingam, MD Program Director, Clinical Informatics Fellowship HSC L3-045 \| 631-444-8478 \| Veena.Lingam@stonybrookmedicine.edu

		Tengfei Ma, Ph.D. Assistant Professor MART7M-0810 \| 631-638-2271 \| Tengfei.Ma@stonybrookmedicine.edu

		Rachel Wong, MD Assistant Program Director, Clinical Informatics Fellowship

		Prateek Prasanna, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics MART 7M-0808\| 631-216-2727 \| Prateek.Prasanna@stonybrook.edu Imaging Informatics, Radiomics, Multi-scale data integration, Applied Machine Learning

		Fusheng Wang, PhD Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics CS 2313D \| 631-632-2598 \| Fusheng.Wang@stonybrook.edu Scalable Big Data Management, GIS, Medical Imaging Informatics, Population Health and Opioid Epidemic Research, AI in Healthcare, Assistive Technologies

		Zhaozheng Yin, PhD SUNY Empire Innovation Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics CS 2313B \| 631-632-2595 \| Zhaozheng.Yin@stonybrook.edu Biomedical Image Analysis, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Cyber-Physical Systems, Human-Robot Collaboration
		Alisa Yurovsky, PhD IDEA Fellow, Lecturer 631-461-1280 \| Alisa.Yurovsky@stonybrookmedicine.edu

		Sritha Rajupet, MD Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Population & Preventive Medicine Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics Director of Population-Based Health Initiatives Deputy Director Graduate Medical Education Renaissance School of Medicine

		Laura Fochtmann, MD, MBI Professor, Department of Psychiatry Office \| 631-444-1607 \| Laura.Fochtmann@stonybrookmedicine.edu

		Gerald Kelly, DO, ABF Clinical Associate Professor Chief Medical Information Officer, Stony Brook Medicine Office \| 631-444-4644 \| Gerald.Kelly@stonybrookmedicine.edu

		Kartik Mani, MD, PhD Clinical Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology HSC L2-643 \| Phone \| Kartik.Mani@stonybrookmedicine.edu

		Mary M. Saltz, MD Clinical Associate Professor, Departments of Radiology, Biomedical Informatics Chief Clinical Integration Officer for Community Practice Initiatives Stony Brook Cancer Center Chief Medical Information Officer Suffolk County DSRIP Chief Clinical Lead HSC L3-045 C \| Phone \| Mary.Saltz@stonybrookmedicine.edu

		A. Laurie W. Shroyer, PhD, MSHA Professor of Surgery Vice Chair for Research Assistant Dean for Educational Research HSC T19-07 \| 631-444-7680 \| AnnieLaurie.Shroyer@stonybrookmedicine.edu

		Mathew Tharakan, MD Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine HSC 020 \| Phone \| Mathew.Tharakan@stonybrookmedicine.edu

		Jonas Almeida, PhD Senior Investigator, NIH/NCI/DCEG Chief Data Scientist HSC L4-170 \| Phone \| Jonas.Almeida@stonybrookmedicine.edu

		Richard Moffitt, PhD Associate Professor, Hematology and Medical Oncology/Biomedical Informatics Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University 631-638-2271 \| Richard.Moffitt@stonybrookmedicine.edu

		James Davis, MD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology Medical Director, Stony Brook BioBank HSC L2 706 \| 631-444-3360 \| James.Davis@stonybrookmedicine.edu

		Dimitris Samaras, PhD Professor, Department of Computer Science CSE Room 263 \| 631-632-8464 \| samaras@cs.sunysb.edu

		Lourdes Bello-Espinosa, MD Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics HSC T12, Room 020 \| 631-444-2599 \| Lourdes.Bello-Espinosa@stonybrook.edu

		Mark Henry, MD Professor and Chair, Department of Emergency Medicine HSC L4-080 \| 631-444-2461 \| Mark.Henry@stonybrookmedicine.edu

		Lawrence Hurst, MD Professor, Department of Orthopaedics HSC T18-02 \| 631-444-3145 \| Lawrence.Hurst@stonybrookmedicine.edu

		Arie Kaufman, PhD Professor, Department of Computer Science 203G New Computer Science \| 631-632-8441 \| ari@cs.sunysb.edu

		I.V. Ramakrishnan, PhD Professor, Department of Computer Science Office \| 631-632-8451 \| ram@cs.stonybrook.edu Artificial Intelligence, Computational Logic, Machine Learning/Computational Logic Combination, Information Retrieval, Computer Accessibility

		Margaret Schedel, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Music Director, cDACT (Consortium for Digital Arts, Culture and Technology) 3304 Staller Center \| 631-632-8610 \| Margaret.Schedel@stonybrook.edu

		Elinor Schoenfeld, PhD Research Professor HSC L3-104 \| 631-632-2457 \| Elinor.Schoenfeld@stonybrookmedicine.edu Community Engaged Research; Addressing Health Disparities; Sensor Data Use for Health; Screening and Early Detection of Disease; Cancer Epidemiology; Cancer Prevention; Diabetes Epidemiology, Data management and informatics


		George Teodoro, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, UnB University of Brazil Office \| Phone \| Email

		Daniel Weymouth, PhD Associate Professor and Director of cDact 3332 Staller Center \| 631-632-7345 \| Daniel.Weymouth@stonybrook.edu

		Vincent Yang, MD, PhD Chair of Medicine HSC 022 \| 631-444-2066 \| Vincent.Yang@stonybrookmedicine.edu

		Wei Zhu, PhD Professor and Deputy Chair, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics 1-116 Mathematics Bldg \| 631-632-8374 \| Wei.Zhu@stonybrook.edu

		Hants Williams, PhD, RN Clinical Assistant Professor, Applied Health Informatics School of Health Professions hants.williams@stonybrook.edu
		Mehdi Damaghi, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology Stony Brook Cancer Center 631-216-2920 \| mehdi.damaghi@stonybrookmedicine.edu