Tsung-Ting Kuo, PhD, FAMIA

Dr. Tsung-Ting Kuo is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science (BIDS) and of Surgery at Yale School of Medicine and a Fellow of American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA). He earned his PhD from National Taiwan University (NTU) in the Institute of Networking and Multimedia. He was previously an Assistant Professor of Medicine in University of California San Diego (UCSD) Health Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI). Prior to becoming a faculty member, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSD DBMI and received the UCSD Chancellor’s Outstanding Postdoctoral Scholar Award. He was a major contributor towards the UCSD DBMI team winning the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) healthcare blockchain challenge, and the NTU team winning the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) Cup competition four times. He was awarded NIH R01 Research Project Grants, K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award with an Administrative Supplement, R13 Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings Grant, as well as UCSD Academic Senate Health Science Research Grants, for blockchain-based and predictive studies in biomedical, healthcare and genomic fields. His research focuses on distributed private modeling, blockchain, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing.