Dr. Alex Bui is a Professor of Radiological Sciences, Bioengineering & Bioinformatics at UCLA, where he serves as the Director for the Medical & Imaging Informatics (MII) Group. His research includes informatics and data science for biomedical research and healthcare in areas related to distributed information architectures and mHealth; methodological development, application, and evaluation of artificial intelligence (AI) methods, including machine and reinforcement learning; and data visualization. His work bridges contemporary computational approaches with the opportunities arising from the breadth of biomedical observations and the electronic health record (EHR), tackling the associated translational challenges. Dr. Bui has served as a Co-Director for the NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) Centers Coordination Center; Application Lead for the NSF-funded Expeditions in Computing Center for Domain-Specific Computing (CDSC), exploring cutting-edge hardware/software techniques for accelerating algorithms used in healthcare; and led the NIH-funded Los Angeles PRISMS Center, a U54 focused on mHealth informatics. Many of these efforts have set the foundation for our current progress in the development and application of computational methods in healthcare. He is presently the Director of UCLA’s Bridge2AI Coordination Center, a landmark NIH initiative to advance the use of AI/ML methods. He also presently Co-Chairs the University of California (UC) AI Council, which helps guide use of AI methods and tools across the UC’s 10 campuses.
