Vignesh Subbian, PhD

Vignesh Subbian works at the nexus of systems engineering, medicine, and informatics. As a health systems scientist and informatician, he studies clinical decision-making in the context of sociotechnical systems using both cognitive engineering and computational methods, with emphases on phenotyping, explainability, and health equity. He is currently a joint associate professor of biomedical engineering, systems and industrial engineering, a member of the BIO5 Institute, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Center for University Education Scholarship (CUES) at the University of Arizona. In his role as associate director for the Center for Biomedical Informatics & Biostatistics, he leads informatics service cores for multiple, large-scale NIH initiatives in Arizona including the All of UsResearch Program and the Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) Initiative. He is also the program director for three training programs: (1) Place-based Health Informatics Research Education (PHIRE; "fire") program, a National Library of Medicine (NLM) initiative for undergraduate research training, (2) eCAMINOS (engineering pathways) program, supported by the National Science Foundation, and (3) Strengthening Arizona's Biomedical Engineering Research Workforce (SABER) Program, supported by National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. He is passionate about and committed to mentoring the next generation of translational and interdisciplinary scientists in biomedicine.