Arash Shaban-nejad PhD, MSc

Arash Shaban-Nejad is an Associate Professor in the UTHSC-OAK-Ridge National Lab (ORNL) Center for Biomedical Informatics and the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC). He is also an adjunct faculty at the Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education, at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Before coming to UTHSC, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the McGill Clinical and Health Informatics Group at McGill University. Dr. Shaban-Nejad received his Ph.D. and MSc in Computer Science from Concordia University, Montreal, and Master of Public Health (MPH) from the University of California, Berkeley. Additional training was received at the Harvard School of Public Health. His primary research interest is Global and Population Health Intelligence, Clinical and Epidemiologic Surveillance, Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), and Big-Data Semantic Analytics using tools and techniques from Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Representation, and Semantic Web.