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Faculty

Amit Noheria portraitAmit Noheria, MBBS, M.S.

Associate Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, KU School of Medicine

Dr. Noheria is the founding director of Program for AI Research in Cardiovascular Medicine and an associate professor in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine in the section of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology. He graduated medical school from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi and earned a Master of Science in Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. He finished his clinical training with internal medicine residency at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, cardiology fellowship at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles and electrophysiology fellowship at Mayo Clinic, Minnesota. Before joining KU Medical Center, he was an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis.

Dr. Noheria takes care of patients at The University of Kansas Health System who have complex heart rhythm disorders, including congenital heart disease and heart failure. He is passionate about teaching medical students, residents and fellows. He is committed to meaningful research and innovation that can improve the care and lives of patients. His research interests have evolved toward novel processing methods including AI in reexploring electrocardiography (ECG), cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) and other aspects of cardiovascular care including arrhythmia ablation and implantable cardiac electronic devices.


Zijun Yao portraitZijun Yao, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Dr. Yao is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Kansas. He received his Ph.D. in information technology from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey in 2018, and worked as a research staff member in AI for healthcare at IBM TJ Watson Research Center until 2021. His general interests lie in data mining, health informatics and natural language processing. Particularly, his research aims to develop personalized, transparent and trustworthy machine learning frameworks for real-world health care decision-support systems, such as treatment recommendation, disease progression modeling and time-to-event prediction. His works have been published in premier journals and top-tier conferences, including IEEE TKDE, ACM TOIS, ACM KDD, ACM WSDM, ACM CIKIM, and IJCAI.


Sumaiya Shomaji portraitSumaiya Shomaji, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Dr. Sumaiya Shomaji is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Kansas. Her area of expertise lies at the intersection of applied machine learning and image processing/computer vision in various domains of the internet of things, especially, biometric authentication, wearable health care system and blockchain for authentication and supply chain management.

Her research interests include: application of machine learning, image processing, computer vision and blockchain to solve emerging challenges in biometrics, hardware security, internet of things and health care.


Yongkuk Lee portraitYongkuk Lee, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Dr. Yongkuk Lee is an assistant professor in the College of Engineering at Wichita State University. His current research interests focus on fundamental studies of mechanics and materials in flexible and stretchable electronics. His lab designs, characterizes and implements those thin, soft, deformable biocompatible electronics. Those electronics have similar properties with human skin, so they have great potential for health care applications including real-time health monitoring, point of care, wearable biosensing, human-machine interfaces and soft robotics.


Faculty Advisors

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Jeffrey A. Thompson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Biostatistics & Data Science
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Pradeep Mammen, M.D.
Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine
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Madhu Reddy
Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine
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Seth Sheldon
Assistant Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine
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Kamal Gupta
Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine
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Mark Wiley
Professor and Chair, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
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Zeeshan Sattar, MBBS
Clinical Assistant Professor, General & Hospital Medicine
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Trainees/Students

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Chris Harvey

Student Research Assistant
Chris Harvey is a computer scientist who specializes in machine learning and AI. He has been doing work in the computer science field since 2015. He has experience in natural language processing, computer vision, computer recognition, signal processing, deep learning, reinforcement learning and programming. He has worked with health, financial, text, image, audio, video, signal and simulation data. When he isn’t doing research, Chris enjoys spending time with his family, cooking, gaming, practicing martial arts and rock climbing.


Volunteer Trainees

Over the last several years, the Program for AI and Research in Cardiovascular Medicine has welcomed an ever-growing list of graduate students, residents and fellows from the schools of Medicine and Engineering.

Ahmed Shahab, MBBS (Research Fellow, 2023-)
Arya Hadizadeh Moghaddam (CS PhD Student, 2023-)
Caroline Trupp (Medical Student, 2023)
David Fritz (Medical Student, 2023-)
Fairuz Shadmani Shishir (CS PhD Student, 2023-)
Hannah Zerr (Medical Student, 2023-)
Irfan Ansari (Medical Student, 2023-)
Jacob Cushing (Medical Student, 2023-)
Lauren St. Peter (Medical Student, 2023-)
Maci Clark (Medical Student, 2023-)
Mira Bhagat (Medical Student, 2023-)
Mohsen Nayebi (CS PhD Student, 2023-)
Mughees Choudhry (Medical Student, 2023-)
Nabil Hossain (Medical Student, 2023-)

Ben Ose, MPH (Medical Student, 2022-)
Carine Tabak (Medical Student, 2022-)
Christian C. Toquica Gahona, MD (Research Fellow, 2022-2023)
Ethan Morgan, DO (IM Resident, 2022-)
Jacob Baer, DO (IM Resident, 2022-)
Matthew Bajaj (Medical Student, 2022-)
Nicholas Kettelkamp, DO (IM Resident, 2022-)
Riya Parikh (Medical Student, 2022-)
Ross Smith (Medical Student, 2022-)
Sarah Baghdadi (Medical Student, 2022-)

Ashley DeBauge (Medical Student, 2021-)
Sania Jiwani, MBBS (CVM Fellow, 2021-)
Sean Lacy, DO (IM Resident, 2021-2022)
Tyan Fairbank (Medical Student, 2021-)

Nikhil Parimi, MD (IM Resident, 2020-2022)
Sagar Ranka, MBBS (CVM Fellow, 2020-2022)
Tucker Morey (Medical Student, 2020-2023)
Uzair Mahmood, MBBS (IM Resident, 2020-2022)

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