Healthcare Technology

Civil engineering professor David Lattanzi teams up with colleagues in the College of Public Health to help build a new tool that will help clinicians identify bruises and injuries from domestic violence in a new way.

Sindhu Mallala's mission to study health informatics fueled her move to America to gain a deeper understanding of how technology can transform the way health systems operate, especially in storing, managing, and accessing critical patient data more quickly and securely. While at Mason, Mallala pursued opportunities that gave her insight into just how impactful technology can be—not just for hospital operations but also for training the next generation of health care providers.

Innovate for Good is a new ongoing series that examines how faculty in the College of Health and Human Services are improving health outcomes using technology such as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and personal apps. Part I explores two social work faculty who are using apps and virtual reality to improve the lives and health of those they work with.

Bioengineering professor Siddhartha Sikdar is using technology to help individuals with limb loss better control their prostheses.

Research Interests: Data science, statistics for big or high-dimensional data, simultaneous inference, multiple comparisons, selection bias, measurement errors, mixtures, causal inference, semi and nonparametric analysis, machine learning, biostatistics, random fields, crowdsourcing, EHR and Text analysis, the interface of statistics and computer science, and other interdisciplinary work.

Research Interests: Self-propelled nanoparticles, mechanobiology, extracellular matrix, microbiology, fluid dynamics, heat transfer

Research Interests: Health Informatics, public health informatics, mental health informatics, and computational social science.

Research Interests: Multi-hazard civil infrastructure resilience quantification, disaster planning and response, sustainability, network algorithms, transportation systems optimization, intermodal and freight transport, supply chains, public transit and alternative modes.

Research Interests: Biostatistics, modern inference, probability theory, stochastic processes.