Dr. Bhavnani is professor of biomedical informatics in the department of biostatistics and data science, director of the Discovery and Innovations through Visual Analytics (DIVA) Laboratory, senior fellow at the Sealy Center on Aging, member of the Institute for Translational Sciences, and adjunct faculty at the School of Biomedical Informatics in UT Houston.
Dr. Bhavnani obtained a PhD in Computational Design and Human-Computer Interaction from Carnegie Mellon University and specializes in network visualization and analysis of biomedical data, with translation to the design of healthcare policies and clinical decision-support systems. His research has received five distinguished paper awards in biomedical informatics from the American Medical Informatics Association. In addition, he has received an outstanding research mentorship award from the University of Michigan, the Rising STARs award from the University of Texas Systems, the Outstanding Paper Award at the Science of Team Science conference, and twice received the Educator of the Month award from the Academy of Master Teachers at UTMB. Bhavnani is PI/MPI/Co-PI of grants from NIH, PCORI, CDC, NSF, and the AGING Initiative.
This video provides examples of Dr. Bhavnani’s research and applications.
Areas of Interest
- Biomedical Informatics
Affiliations
- UT Health Science Center in Houston
- Discovery and Innovation through Visual Analytics (DIVA Lab)