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Dr. Hua Xu is an assistant professor of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). He co-directs the Biomedical Language Processing Laboratory and the Discovery System Laboratory at VUMC. Dr. Xu received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics from Columbian University in New York City in 2008. In addition, he holds a B.S. degree in Biochemistry from Nanjing University in China, an M.S. in Computer Science from New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Dr. Xu is an expert in biomedical text processing and data mining. His primary research interests include: 1) natural language processing (NLP) of clinical text; 2) text mining of biomedical literature; 3) Healthcare data mining. He is the author of many publications on biomedical NLP and text mining, and his research on medication extraction received the Homer Warner Award from the American Medical Informatics Association in 2009. His team participated in the 2009 i2b2 NLP challenge and their system was ranked as the second best system among 20 participating teams. Dr. Xu has been principal investigator on a number of grants, including R01s from National Library of Medicine (NLM) and National Cancer Institute (NCI).
Research Projects:
- Clinical NLP systems
- EMR-based epidemiological studies of cancers
- Informatics approaches to Pharmacogenomics
- Drug-ADE detection (pharmacovigilance) from EMR
- Literature mining of genes and environmental factors
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NLP of clinical notes
Text mining of biomedical literature
Healthcare data mining
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Son Doan, PhD, research fellow
Mei Liu, PhD, research fellow
Yanxin Lu, PhD student
Min Jiang, MS, Programmer
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