Team
Rishikesan Kamaleswaran
Principal Investigator
Rishikesan (Rishi) Kamaleswaran is an Associate Professor at Emory University, Department of Biomedical Informatics, with secondary appointments in Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Canada. He is the Director of Translational Informatics within the School of Medicine and the Georgia CTSA. He is the Co-Director of the NIH P30 Georgia Cystic Fibrosis Research and Translation Core Center where he oversees a number of clinical informatics research. He also oversees the Emory Real-Time Data Science and Decision Support (RADS2) center that advances AI/ML applications at the bedside. His research is funded by a number of federal and regional agencies including the National Institutes of Health, Veteran's Affairs, Department of Defence, Michael J. Fox Foundation, and the CF foundation.
Kim Tierney
Research Manager
Kim Tierney has worked in a variety of positions over the years promoting public health both domestically and internationally. Kim holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina Asheville where she double majored in French and International Studies and minored in Africana Studies. She most recently worked as a Program Associate for the International Trachoma Initiative, a program of the Task Force for Global Health. During her time there, she supported the program team through their yearly cycle of country applications, facilitated the distribution and receipt of trachoma monitoring forms in collaboration with the WHO, and helped with meeting support for the Trachoma Expert Committee meetings, as well as regional cross-border meetings in sub-Saharan Africa.
Among other jobs, she has previously worked as a nutrition and culinary instructor for both children and adults with a non-profit that provides increased access to healthy, fresh food; taught yoga and provided communications support for a non-profit yoga studio that offers entirely donation classes; and served as a Communications Manager and French translator for a machinery company operating primarily in Guinea.
When she’s not working, Kim enjoys spending time outside hiking and backpacking, cooking and baking for loved ones, dancing, practicing yoga, and hanging out with her two cats, Sebastian and Linguine.
Current Team Members
Post-Doctoral Research Fellows
Graduate Research Students
Mehak Arora
PhD Student
GT ECE
Ashwin Pathak
Master Student
GT CS
Clinicians and Engineers
Jeffery Wang
Cardiologist/ Cardiac ICU Fellow
Emory
Ryan Birmingham
System Software Engineer
Emory
Undergraduates Students
Alumni
Saideep Narendrula, MS
Palak Aggarwal, MS
Azade Tabaie, PhD (Scientist, MedStar Health Research Institute)
Chris Josef, MD (Consultant)
Ian A. Wong, MD PhD (Faculty, Duke University)
Hayoung Jeong, MS, (PhD Student, Duke University)
Yi Chieh Liu, MS (Applied Scientist, Amazon)
Pratik Ramesh, MS (PhD Student at GT ECE)
Kushal Kodnad, AMIA High School Scholar 2021 (Undergrad, UC Berkeley)
Swethasree Bhattaram, MS
Xiyang Wu, MS (PhD Student at University of Maryland)
Yash Garg, Undergraduate (Masters student , UC Irvine)
Lakshya Singhal, Undergraduate (Masters student, Brown University)
Isha Naidu, Undergraduate (Masters UGA)
Lawrence L. He, Undergraduate (GT BME)
Mary Bell, Undergraduate (GT BME)
Cheryl Huang, Undergraduate (GT BME)
Ishan Doma, Undergraduate (GT BME)
Joao Gabriel De Souza, Undergraduate (University of Brasília Production Engineering)
Angana Mondal, Undergraduate (IIT Kharagpur EE)
Raghav Mahajan, High School (West Windsor)
Aryan Kumar, High School (South Forsyth)
Collaborators
Dr. Craig M. Coopersmith
Director, Emory Critical Care Center
Emory Unviersity School of Medicine
Dr. Tim G. Buchman
Former Director Emory Critical Care Center, Senior Advisor to DHHS BARDA
Dr. Arlene Stecenko
Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Immunology, Cystic Fibrosis, and Sleep
Department of Pediatrics
Emory University School of Medicine
Dr. Gari D. Clifford
Chair, Department of Biomedical Informatics, Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Biomedical Engineering at Emory University and the Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Yao Xie
Associate Professor,
Nash Early Career Professor
Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Omer Inan
Professor, Linda J. and Mark C. Smith Chair,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Annette Esper
Associate Professor,
Emory University
Dr. Andre Holder
Assistant Professor,
Emory University
Dr. Greg Martin
Professor and former President SCCM,
Emory University
Dr. Jocelyn Grunwell
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University
Dr. Xiao Hu
Professor, School of Nursing
Emory University
Dr. Andrea Newsome
Clinical Associate Professor Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy, Augusta
University of Georgia
Dr. Rafick Sekaly
Professor, Vice-Chair of Translational Medicine in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Emory University
Dr. Miriam Vos
MSPH Co-Director, Center for Clinical and Translational Research (CCTR) Professor of Pediatrics
Emory University
Dr. Michael R. Pinsky
Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Bioengineering, Anesthesiology, Cardiovascular Diseases, and Clinical & Translational Science
University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Gilles Clermont
Professor of Critical Care Medicine, Mathematics, Clinical and Translational Science, and Industrial Engineering
University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Mihir R. Atreya
Attending Physician, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU),
Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati
Dr. Hector R. Wong
Director, Division of Critical Care Medicine, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati