Brad Malin, PhD, was recently elected a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for his contributions to data engineering, privacy and security in biomedicine.
“It is a wonderful feeling to be recognized by this community for my accomplishments in the field of computing,” said Malin, Accenture Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Biostatistics and Computer Science, vice chair for Research Affairs in the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) and founder and director of the Vanderbilt Health Data Science Center. “It motivates me to continue to work to integrate the fields of computation and biomedicine.”
Malin’s research focuses on big data management, health data analytics, data privacy and security and has received funding through various grants from the National Science Foundation, NIH, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute and more. He’s received numerous awards for his work, including the Alexander Heard Distinguished Service Professor Award, the Lasting Research Award from the Association for Computing Machinery’s Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy, and more.
He is currently the principal investigator (PI) of the Ethical and Trustworthy AI Core for the NIH’s Bridge2AI Center and one of the PIs of the Infrastructure Core of the NIH’s Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD). He’s also a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Center for Health Statistics of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.