Vignesh Subbian
Vignesh Subbian works at the nexus of systems engineering, medicine, and informatics. As a health systems scientist and informatician, he studies clinical decision-making in the context of sociotechnical systems using both cognitive engineering and computational methods, with an emphases on phenotyping, explainability, and health equity. He is currently a Joint Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Systems and Industrial Engineering, a member of the BIO5 Institute, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Center for University Education Scholarship (CUES) at the University of Arizona. In his role as Associate Director for the Center for Biomedical Informatics & Biostatistics, he leads informatics service cores for multiple, large-scale NIH initiatives in Arizona including the All of Us Research Program and the Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) Initiative. He is also the program co-director for three training programs:
- PHIRE ("fire"; Place-based Health Informatics Research Education) program, a National Library of Medicine (NLM) initiative for undergraduate research training in health informatics.
- eCAMINOS (engineering pathways) program, supported by the National Science Foundation.
- SABER (Strengthening Arizona's Biomedical Engineering Research Workforce) Program, supported by National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering.
Subbian's educational research as a part of these training programs is focused on asset-based practices, ethics education, and formation of professional identities.