Fuchiang (Rich) Tsui, PhD, FAMIA, IEEE Senior Member
Associate Professor of Informatics and Anesthesiology and Critical Care/Endowed Chair in Biomedical Informatics and Entrepreneurial Science
Dr. Tsui is an engineer, computer scientist, and biomedical informatician. His research focuses on three areas: 1) Developing methods using AI, machine learning, natural language processing, data science, data engineering, and signal processing for healthcare needs; 2) Implementing, deploying, and analyzing real-time production systems and data warehouse; 3) Supporting biomedical informatics education. The Tsui Lab develops and deploys healthcare AI systems aiming to improve patient care and address the needs of clinicians.
He has served as a principal investigator and a co-investigator in multiple research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Department of Defense, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), and philanthropic foundations. Dr. Tsui has published 100+ peer-reviewed papers and has been working in the healthcare field for more than 25 years.
Dr. Tsui serves as an Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare and the Journal of Medical Systems. He is also an editorial board member of the Journal of American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) and an inaugural editorial board member of the JAMIA OPEN. Additionally, he is an inaugural advisory board member of the Advancing Patient Safety through Technology Challenge by the Jewish Healthcare Foundation and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Dr. Tsui teaches the course of €œIntroduction to Biomedical and Health Informatics€ (BMIN 5010) at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. He has served as a dissertation advisor to doctoral students and a mentor to post-doctoral fellows and junior faculty members. Additionally, the Tsui Lab the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania has been hosting international visiting scholars from different countries to work on various biomedical informatics research projects. His laboratory welcome (international) visiting scholars and research collaboration.