Each project is expected to have a clinical and an engineering mentor. You should designate one of them as a leading mentor as you see fit. You may select mentors from your own personal connections, from UIUC and Carle faculty in related and relevant domains, or from the mentor pool below. Mentors’ role may vary depending on their involvement in your project. They are responsible to advise the scope of your project proposals and meet you at least twice throughout the entire course to oversee the progression. They may meet you more frequently to help you with more specific tasks such as defining the medical question, interpreting results, or suggesting analytic tools. However, you should discuss with your mentors before having them submit the mentor confirmation form to have a mutual agreement on their involvement. Mentor expectations are described in more detail in the mentor confirmation form and in resources available from the course directors.
If you are interested in working on a specific area, or a particular faculty member at UIUC or Carle, The course directors would be happy to help you connect. Here is a non-exclusive list of units:
Also, here is a list of faculty members that served as a mentor in the previous year or expressed their willingness of being a mentor.
| Name | Department | Expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Juan Jose Jimenez | Carle | Imaging Analysis |
| Robert Healy | Carle | Electronic Medical Records |
| Aja Lystila | Carle | Electronic Medical Records |
| Tim Meneely | Carle | Population Health |
| Sinesa Stanic | Carle | Augmented & Virtual Reality |
| Sihai Dave Zhao | Statistics | Statistical Genomics |
| Shulei Wang | Statistics | Microbiome and Imaging Analysis |
| Carl Gunter | Computer Science | Security and Privacy in Healthcare |
| Hongye Liu | Computer Science | Bioinformatics and Computational Biology |
| Lui Sha | Computer Science | Systems and Networking |
| Madhusudan Parthasarathy | Computer Science | Machine Learning |
| Sarah Dee Geiger | Kinesiology and Community Health | Children’s Environmental Health |
| Mehmet Eren Ahsen | Gies College of Business | Machine Learning in Business and Healthcare |
| Daniel I. Warren | Carle | Neuroradiology and Computer Vision |
| Jimeng Sun | Computer Science | AI for Healthcare |
| Catherine Blake | Information Sciences | Biomedical informatics, Health systems |
| Jacinda Kay Dariotis | Consumer and Environmental Sciences | Decision-Making and Behaviors, Survey and Quantitative Analysis |
| Ujjal Mukherjee | Gies College of Business | Technology adoption and mediation in healthcare |
| Sridhar Seshadri | Gies College of Business | Stochastic modeling, supply chain and revenue management |
| Brad Sutton | Bioengineering | Biomedical imaging |