Gang Luo

Gang Luo, PhD

Languages spoken: English, Chinese

Academic Information

Departments Adjunct - Biomedical Informatics

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

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

Selected Publications

Journal Article

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

Review

  1. Luo G, Nkoy FL, Gesteland PH, Glasgow TS, Stone B (2014). A systematic review of predictive modeling for bronchiolitis. International journal of medical informatics, 83(10), 691-714.

Conference Proceedings

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