Center for Health Informatics & Analytics (CHIA)
Engineering Solutions for Clinical Problems
Mission
Center for Health Informatics and Analytics (CHIA) strives to develop easy, low-cost, and deployable wearable-sensor systems for the assessment of life-threatening events in the vulnerable population like preterm infants, elderly, individuals with mental illness, and patients recovering from substance use disorder.
About CHIA
The Center for Health Informatics & Analytics (CHIA) was established in Fall 2020 with the mission of 鈥淓ngineering Solutions to Clinical Problems.鈥� The center aims to develop wearable sensor systems and associated machine learning algorithms for the prediction of life-threatening events in humans. East Texas has the highest suicide rate and the second-highest infant mortality rate among all regions in the state.
CHIA focuses on creating AI-based, edge-intelligent wearable sensor systems for:
Predicting apnea, bradycardia, and hypoxia in preterm infants
Detecting suicidal ideation in individuals with mental health conditions
Identifying cravings in individuals with substance use disorders
In addition, CHIA is committed to training high school and college students in emerging technologies at the intersection of engineering and medicine.
CHIA Director
Associate Department Chair and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Director of Center for Health Informatics & Analytics (CHIA),
MSEE Graduate Coordinator, The University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, USA.
Dr. Indic completed his postdoctoral training in medicine from Harvard Medical School in 2004. He obtained his Ph.D. from the faculty of technology at the Cochin University of Science and Technology, India in 2001. He also holds an M. Tech. degree in electrical engineering and a B. Tech. degree in electrical & electronics engineering, both from the University of Calicut, India. Prior to joining 黑料专区 Tyler, he served as a faculty member in the Department of Neurology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
CHIA Associate Director
Dr. Pravitha Ramanand
Assistant Research Professor,
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
The University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, Texas, USA.