UROP Research Mentor Project Submission Portal: Submission #1157 | Center for Undergraduate Research and Academic Engagement

Submission information

Submission Number: 1157

Submission ID: 20381

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Submission URI: /urop-research-mentor-project-submission-portal

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Language: English

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Research Mentor Information

Primary Research Mentor Name Zhe He

Research Mentor Preferred Pronouns He, His, Him

When potential research assistants are reaching out via email, what is your preferred honorific? Dr.

Contact Email (FSU Email if affiliated) zhe@fsu.edu

Position Title Faculty

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Additional Research Mentor(s)

Research Assistant Supervisor (if different from above) Balu Bhasuran

Research Assistant Supervisor Preferred Pronouns He, Him, His

Research Assistant Supervisor Preferred Honorific? Prof.

Contact Email (FSU Email if affiliated) bb23u@fsu.edu

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Overall Project Details

Title of the Project Health Informatics Project in the eHealth Lab

Project Keywords Health Informatics, Data Science, Machine Learning, AI

Are you currently looking for research assistants? Yes

Number of Research Assistants Needed 4

Relevant Research Assistant Major(s) Public Health, Computer Science, Information Technology, Premed, Biology, Biochemistry, Psychology

Project Location: On FSU Main Campus

If the project location is off campus, does the research assistant(s) need to provide their own transportation? Yes

Please select the choice that most accurately describes your expectations for the research assistant(s): Partially Remote

Approximately how many hours a week would the research assistant(s) need to work? 5

Roughly what time frame do you expect research assistant(s) to work? During business hours

Overall Research Project Description The research in the eHealth Lab directed by Dr. Zhe He is meticulously designed to foster health education, empower patient self-management, enhance the efficiency of healthcare delivery, and elevate the standards of clinical research by leveraging the power of big health data. Employing user-centered and participatory approaches, we are dedicated to developing AI-powered health delivery platforms and tools that are as innovative as they are inclusive. Our machine learning and natural language processing expertise enables us to extract actionable insights from complex healthcare systems, thereby informing medical decision-making and exploring the nuances of clinical trial participation. Research areas include: Our specialized research areas span across Biomedical and Health Informatics, Clinical Research Informatics, Consumer Health Informatics, as well as Knowledge Representation and Biomedical Ontologies. We are also deeply engaged in advancing the fields of Biomedical Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Health Data Analytics with a multidisciplinary approach.

Research Tasks Assist with on-going biomedical and health informatics projects: (1) literature review; (2) data collection; (3) annotation; (4) preparing manuscripts for academic journals and conferences.

Skills that research assistant(s) may need: Python (recommended)
MS Excel (required)
R (recommended)
MS Word (required)
MS PowerPoint (required)
Interview (required)

Mentoring Philosophy I believe as a mentor, students’ success is my success. I have been closely supervising students at all levels in the iSchool and other departments. In iSchool, new faculty are not eligible to supervise doctoral students until after they have undergone a successful third year review. Currently, I am the chair of the supervisory committee of two doctoral students and a member of supervisory committees of 18 doctoral students. My supervision of graduate student research through directed independent studies and research collaborations has resulted in more than 30 journal articles (e.g., JAMIA, JMIR, JBI, JMIR), 30 conference papers (e.g., AMIA, BIBM, MEDINFO), and 20 conference posters (e.g., ASIST, AMIA, ICHI, MEDINFO). In addition, I have mentored 9 undergraduate students in many different majors including Computer Science, Pre-med, Chemistry, and Biology, to name a few, through FSU’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP). My UROP mentees have presented their research projects in FSU’s Undergraduate Research Symposium and Florida Undergraduate Research Conference (FURC).

Please provide a link to your publications, a video clip, or a website for your research project (if applicable): https://sites.google.com/site/henryhezhe2003/publications

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Are you interested in participating in the UROP Research Mentor Roundtable? Yes

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Roundtable Info

Day: Tuesday, September 2
Start Time: 12:00
End Time: 12:30
Zoom Link: https://fsu.zoom.us/j/98641012433

UROP Program Elements

Mentor Handbook, FAQs, and Communication Yes

UROP Performance Evaluation Yes

Materials Grant Yes

UROP Poster Presentation Yes

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Year 2025

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