Anthony Rios, PhD

Dr. Anthony Rios is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Dr. Rios received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky in 2018 and his B.S. in Computer Science from Georgetown College in 2011. His broad multidisciplinary research interests include biomedical and social applications of machine learning and natural language processing (NLP). He has published numerous refereed technical papers in prestigious venues in NLP and biomedical informatics, including AAAI, EMNLP, ACL, NAACL, AMIA, JAMIA, and Bioinformatics. Dr. Rios also received the NSF CRII and CAREER awards, a distinguished poster finalist award at AMIA 2014, and a best paper finalist award in the best technical paper category at ICHI 2015.