Gang Luo

Gang Luo, PhD

Languages spoken: English, Chinese

Academic Information

Departments Adjunct - Biomedical Informatics

Research Interests

  • Health Informatics
  • Information Storage and Retrieval
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Databases
  • Data Mining
  • Decision Support Techniques
  • Knowledge Management
  • Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Gang Luo earned his PhD degree in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Luo is an assistant professor in the University of Utah’s Department of Biomedical Informatics.

Dr. Luo's research interests include health/clinical informatics (software system design/development and data analytics), big data, information retrieval, database systems, machine learning, data mining, and natural language processing with a focus on health applications. He has more than 50 publications and over two dozen patents in these areas. He invented the questionnaire-guided intelligent medical search engine iMed, intelligent personal health record, and SQL and compiler progress indicators. He has also worked on brain-computer interface and EEG brain wave analysis.

Following his PhD study, Dr. Luo worked as a research staff member at the IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY (2004-2012). He joined the Department of Biomedical Informatics in August 2012 as an assistant professor.

More information about Dr. Luo is available at: http://home.chpc.utah.edu/~gangluo/

“As a computer scientist by training, as well as a self-educated mathematician, I choose to work on health informatics because of the large number of real problems in this area. I enjoy interacting with people from various areas and am interested in combining advanced computing techniques, mathematical theory, and healthcare knowledge. I believe this combination will lead to major advances in health informatics that will help improve people’s daily living.”

Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4MEAIU4AAAAJ

Education History

Doctoral Training University of Wisconsin-Madison
 PhD
Shanghai Jiaotong University
 BS

Selected Publications

Journal Article

  1. Luo G, Frey LJ (2016). Efficient Execution Methods of Pivoting for Bulk Extraction of Entity-Attribute-Value-Modeled Data. IEEE J Biomed Health Inform, 20(2), 644-654. (Read full article)
  2. Luo G (2016). Automatically explaining machine learning prediction results: a demonstration on type 2 diabetes risk prediction. Health Inf Sci Syst, 4, 2. (Read full article)
  3. Luo G, Stone BL, Johnson MD, Nkoy FL (2016). Predicting Appropriate Admission of Bronchiolitis Patients in the Emergency Department: Rationale and Methods. JMIR Res Protoc, 5(1), e41. (Read full article)
  4. Luo G, Stone BL, Sakaguchi F, Sheng X, Murtaugh MA (2015). Using Computational Approaches to Improve Risk-Stratified Patient Management: Rationale and Methods. JMIR Res Protoc, 4(4), e128. (Read full article)
  5. Luo G (2015). MLBCD: a machine learning tool for big clinical data. Health Inf Sci Syst, 3, 3. (Read full article)
  6. Luo G, Stone BL, Fassl B, Maloney CG, Gesteland PH, Yerram SR, Nkoy FL (2015). Predicting asthma control deterioration in children. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak, 15(1), 84. (Read full article)
  7. Luo G (2014). A roadmap for designing a personalized search tool for individual healthcare providers. J Med Syst, 38(2), 6. (Read full article)
  8. Luo G (2013). Open issues in intelligent personal health record - an updated status report for 2012. J Med Syst, 37(3), 9943. (Read full article)
  9. Luo G (2012). Triggers and monitoring in intelligent personal health record. J Med Syst, 36(5), 2993-3009. (Read full article)
  10. Luo G, Tang C, Thomas SB (2012). Intelligent personal health record: experience and open issues. J Med Syst, 36(4), 2111-28. (Read full article)
  11. Luo G, Thomas SB, Tang C (2012). Automatic home medical product recommendation. J Med Syst, 36(2), 383-98. (Read full article)
  12. Luo G, Min W (2012). Distance-constrained orthogonal Latin squares for brain-computer interface. J Med Syst, 36(1), 159-66. (Read full article)
  13. Luo G (2009). Design and Evaluation of the iMed Intelligent Medical Search Engine. Proc Int Conf Data Eng, 2009, 1379-1390.
  14. Luo G, Tang C (2009). Automatic home nursing activity recommendation. AMIA Annu Symp Proc, 2009, 401-5. (Read full article)
  15. Luo G, Tang C, Yang H, Wei X (2008). MedSearch: A Specialized Search Engine for Medical Information Retrieval. Proc ACM Int Conf Inf Knowl Manag, 2008, 143-152.
  16. Luo G, Min W (2007). Subject-adaptive real-time sleep stage classification based on conditional random field. AMIA Annu Symp Proc, 488-92. (Read full article)

Review

  1. Luo G, Nkoy FL, Gesteland PH, Glasgow TS, Stone BL (2014). A systematic review of predictive modeling for bronchiolitis. [Review]. Int J Med Inform, 83(10), 691-714. (Read full article)

Conference Proceedings

  1. Luo G, Tang C (2008). On Iterative Intelligent Medical Search. Proc ACM SIGIR, 2008, 3-10.
  2. Luo G, Tang C, Tian Y (2007). Answering Relationship Queries on the Web. Proc WWW, 2007, 561-570.

Patent

  1. Luo G, Yan R, Yu PS (2013). System and Method for Real-Time New Event Detection on Video Streams. U.S. Patent No. 8,428,360. Washington, D.C.:U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  2. Luo G, Watzke MW, Ellmann CJ, Naughton JF (2012). Rescheduling of Modification Operations for Loading Data into a Database System. U.S. Patent No. U.S. Patent No. 8,156,110. Washington, D.C.:U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  3. Luo G, Biem A, Dinger T, Halim N, Sow DM, Turaga DS (2012). Hypothesis-Driven, Real-Time Analysis of Physiological Data Streams Using Textual Representations. U.S. Patent No. YOR8-2011-0818, 2012. Washington, D.C.:U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  4. Luo G, Wu K, Yu PS (2012). System and Method for Indexing a Data Stream. U.S. Patent No. 7,552,099. Washington, D.C.:U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  5. Luo G, Naughton JF, Ellmann CJ, Watzke MW (2012). Providing a Progress Indicator in a Database System. U.S. Patent No. U.S. serial 8,255,388. Washington, D.C.:U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  6. Luo G., Watzke M.W., Ellmann C.J (2010). Grouping Database Queries and/or Transactions. U.S. Patent No. 7,814,080. Washington, D.C.:U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  7. Luo G, Min W (2009). Method and System for Subject-Adaptive Real-Time Sleep Stage Classification. U.S. Patent No. 7,509,163. Washington, D.C.:U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  8. Luo G, Watzke MW, Ellmann CJ, Naughton JF (2008). Locking Mechanism for Materialized Views in a Database System. U.S. Patent No. 7,321,898. Washington, D.C.:U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  9. Luo G, Yu PS (2008). Systems and Methods for Resource Adaptive Workload Management. U.S. Patent No. 7,379,953. Washington, D.C.:U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  10. Luo G, Naughton JF, Ellmann CJ, Watzke MW (2008). Rescheduling Table Scan Transactions. U.S. Patent No. 7,418,706. Washington, D.C.:U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  11. Luo G, Watzke MW, Ellmann CJ, Naughton JF (2007). Locking Mechanism for Views Associated with B-tree Indexes. U.S. Patent No. 7,174,331. Washington, D.C.:U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  12. Luo G, Ellmann CJ, Watzke MW (2007). Locking Mechanism Using Predefined Locks for Aggregate Materialized Views in a Database System. U.S. Patent No. 7,181,452. Washington, D.C.:U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  13. Luo G, Ellmann CJ, Naughton JF, Watzke MW (2006). Locking Mechanism Employing a Name Lock for Materialized Views. U.S. Patent No. 7,155,434. Washington, D.C.:U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  14. Luo G, Shatdal A (2006). Parallel Moving Aggregate Computation. U.S. Patent No. 7,051,021. Washington, D.C.:U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  15. Luo G, Watzke MW, Ellmann CJ, Naughton JF (2006). Locking Mechanism Using a Predefined Lock for Materialized Views in a Database System. U.S. Patent No. 7,149,737. Washington, D.C.:U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  16. Luo G, Ellmann CJ, Naughton JF (2006). Method and Apparatus for Performing Hash Join. U.S. Patent No. 7,085,769. Washington, D.C.:U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  17. Luo G, Tang C, Yu PS (2006). System and Method for Resource-Adaptive, Real-Time New Event Detection. U.S. Patent No. YOR820060388. Washington, D.C.:U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  18. Luo G, Ellmann CJ, Naughton JF, Watzke MW (2006). Rescheduling Transactions in a Database System. U.S. Patent No. 6,990,503. Washington, D.C.:U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  19. Luo G, Ellmann CJ, Naughton JF (2006). Auxiliary Relation for Materialized View. U.S. Patent No. 7,092,951. Washington, D.C.:U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  20. Luo G, Shatdal A (2005). Parallel Random Sampling. U.S. Patent No. 6,889,221. Washington, D.C.:U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  21. Luo G, Yu PS (2005). System and Method for Real-time Materialized View Maintenance. U.S. Patent No. YOR820050223. Washington, D.C.:U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  22. Luo G, Ellmann CJ, Naughton JF (2004). Non-blocking Parallel Band Join Algorithm. U.S. Patent No. 6,804,678. Washington, D.C.:U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  23. Luo G, Ellmann CJ, Naughton JF (2004). Parallel Spatial Join Index. U.S. Patent No. 6,745,198. Washington, D.C.:U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  24. Luo G, Ellmann CJ, Naughton JF (2004). Spatial Join Method and Apparatus. U.S. Patent No. 6,732,107. Washington, D.C.:U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
  25. Luo G, Watzke MW, Ellmann CJ, Naughton JF (2002). Locking Mechanism for a Materialized View That Does Not Employ Locks on the Materialized View.
  26. Luo G, Ellmann CJ, Naughton JF, Watzke MW (2002). Transaction Grouping and Rescheduling in a Database System.