Jake Luo

Associate Professor, Health Informatics & Administration
Affiliate Professor, Computer Science
Graduate Program Director, Health Care Informatics

Jake Luo’s research interest lies in data-driven predictive analysis using machine learning-based algorithms and technologies, such as data mining, natural language processing and knowledge representation and modelling. He is interested in investigating how these computing technologies can be used to improve health care by providing intelligent decision support for clinicians, medical researchers, patients, and policymakers.

Luo’s active research programs involve developing innovative heath data science technologies for knowledge discovery, adapting machine learning algorithms to enhance clinical data processing, implementing collaborative team science initiatives to improve health services and research, and creating intelligent clinical informatics tools to support evidence-based decision making.

Education

Postdoctoral Scientist Biomedical Informatics Columbia University New York

PhD Computer Science, Belfast, UK Queen’s University

MS Software Engineering, Xidian University China

BS Electronic Engineering, Xidian University China

Focus

Health Big Data and Predictive Analysis
Natural Language Processing
Health Informatics and Management
Text Mining and Information Extraction
Artificial Intelligence and machine learning

Selected Publications

Chesley, N. A., Meier, H., Luo, J., Apchemengich, I., & Davies, W. (2020, June). Social factors shaing the adoption of lead-filering point-of-use systems: an observational study of an MTurk sample. Journal of Water and Health.
Tong, L., Hernandez, L., & Luo, J. (2020, February). PREDICTING GASTROINTESTINAL (GI) HEMORRHAGE USING A MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH: RISK FACTORS AND PREDICTIVE ANALYSIS. Gastroenterology, 158(6), S-16.
Lu, Q., Zhou, S., Tao, F., Luo, J., & Wang, Z. (2020). Enhancing Gene Expression Programming based on Space Partition and Jump for Symbolic Regression. Information Sciences, 547, 553-567.
Alarifi, M., Patrick, T., Jabour, A., Wu, M., & Luo, J. (2020). Full Radiology Report through Patient Web Portal: A Literature Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Wu, M., & Luo, J. (2019, November). Wearable Technology Applications in Healthcare: A Literature Review. Online Journal of Nursing Informatics, 23(3).
Zolnoori, M., Fung, K. W., Patrick, T. B., Fontelo, P., Kharrazi, H., Faiola, A., Shirley Wu, Y. S., Eldredge, C. E., Luo, J., Conway, M., Zhu, J., Park, S. K., Xu, K., & Moayyed, H. (2019, March). The PsyTAR dataset: From patients generated narratives to a corpus of adverse drug events and effectiveness of psychiatric medications. Data in Brief, 103838.
Barzekar, H., Ebrahimzadeh, F., Luo, J., Karami, M., Robati, Z., & Goodarzi, P. (2019). Adoption of Hospital Information System Among Nurses: a Technology Acceptance Model Approach. Acta Informatica Medica, 27(5), 305.
Tong, L., Cisler, R. A., , M. C., & Luo, J. (2019, July (3rd Quarter/Summer)). Machine learning-based modeling of big clinical data for adverse outcome prediction: A case study of death events. Proceedings of IEEE 43rd Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), 269-274.
Benson, L. C., Cobb, S. C., Hyngstrom, A. S., Keenan, K. G., Luo, J., & O’Connor, K. M. (2019, April (2nd Quarter/Spring)). A Principal Components Analysis Approach to Quantifying Foot Clearance and Foot Clearance Variability. Journal of Applied Biomechanics, 35(2), 116-122.
Zolnoori, M., Wah Fung, K., Patrick, T. B., Fontelo, P., Kharrazi, H., Faiola, A., Shuan Shirley Wu, Y., Eldredge, C. E., Luo, J., Conway, M., Zhu, J., Kyung Park, S., Xu, K., Moayyed, H., & Goudarzvand, S. (2019, January (1st Quarter/Winter)). A Systematic Approach for Developing a Corpus of Patient Reported Adverse Drug Events: A Case Study for SSRI and SNRI Medications. Journal of biomedical informatics.
Benson, L. C., Cobb, S. C., Hyngstrom, A. S., Keenan, K. G., Luo, J., & O’Connor, K. M. (2018, December). Identifying trippers and non-trippers based on knee kinematics during obstacle-free walking. Human Movement Science, 62, 58-66.
Zhao, Y., Fesharaki, N. J., Liu, H., & Luo, J. (2018, December). Using data-driven sublanguage pattern mining to induce knowledge models: application in medical image reports knowledge representation. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 18(1).
Tang, T., Zhao, S., & Luo, J. (2018, June). A new support vector selection strategy and a local-global regularization method for improving online SVM learning. Electronics Letters, 53(12), 735-736.
Zhao, Y., Fesharaki, N. J., Li, X., Patrick, T. B., & Luo, J. (2018, April (2nd Quarter/Spring)). Semantic-Enhanced Query Expansion System for Retrieving Medical Image Notes. Journal of Medical Systems, 42(6), 105.
Luo, J., Erbe, C., & Friedland, D. R. (2018). Unique Clinical Language Patterns Among Expert Vestibular Providers Can Predict Vestibular Diagnoses. Otology & Neurotology, 39(9), 1163-1171.

Honors & Awards

Outstanding Clinical Research Informatics Paper Award Nominated (2014) AMIA.
Outstanding Reviewer Award (2013) MedInfo 2013.
Top hottest 25 paper (2012) Journal of Biomedical Informatics.
Distinguished paper award (2011) AMIA CRI summit.

Professional Memberships

Member of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), 2009-present
Member of Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2006-2010
Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2008-2009

Courses Taught

Health Big Data Processing
Introduction to Health Care Informatics
Biomedical Informatics Seminar
Fundamental Programming
Advanced Programming