Congratulations to graduate students Nitya Singh, Matthew Ruppert and Eliot Spector for earning their master’s degrees this spring from HOBI’s Biomedical Informatics program.
Meet Our Graduates
Graduate: Nitya Singh
M.S. in Medical Sciences with a concentration in Biomedical Informatics
Chair: William Hogan, M.D., M.S.
Capstone project: Singh developed the Genomics Integrated Biobanking Ontology (GIBO) and used it to integrate data from public health case reporting, biobanking, genomics, clinical laboratories, and public pathogen sequence databases. This powerful data integration process leverages the power of the semantic web and GIBO to answer questions previously impossible to address. For example, she was able to list the five most commonly detected Salmonella serotypes in Florida overall and by county.
Graduate: Matthew Ruppert
M.S. in Medical Sciences with a concentration in Biomedical Informatics
Chair: Jiang Bian, Ph.D.
Thesis: “Optimization of Inpatient Level of Care through Multi-Task Learning”
Ruppert created a computed decision support (CDS) algorithm to continuously optimize a patient’s location in the hospital for surgical inpatients. It was found to be able to reliably identify the need for ICU vs. ward care at 4, 24, and 48 hours in the future and, when compared to physicians, reduced ICU consumption from 5-10%.
Graduate: Eliot Spector
M.S. in Medical Sciences with a concentration in Biomedical Informatics
Chair: Jiang Bian, Ph.D.
Thesis: N/A