Conferences

 

Steering Committee Chair

IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI)

 

General Co-Chair
The 7th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Xi'an, China, June 10-13, 2019. (ICHI 2019)
http://www.ieee-ichi.org/2019/

Program Co-Chair
The 6th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics, Atlanta, September 9 - 12, 2015. (ACM BCB 2015)
http://acm-bcb.bme.gatech.edu/2015/

Workshop Chair
ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Healthcare Informatics, New York City, August 24, 2014. (HI-KDD 2014)
http://cci.drexel.edu/HI-KDD2014/

General Chair
International Conference on Commerce, Philadelphia, August 5-6, 2014. (ICEC 2014)
https://sites.google.com/site/icec2014/

 

General Chair

IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Philadelphia, September 9-11, 2013 (ICHI 2013)

http://cci.drexel.edu/ichi2013/

 

Books

Series Editor
CRC Healthcare Informatics Book Series

Journals

Editor-in-Chief
Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research

Editor-in-Chief
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

Recent Activities

• O. S. Liang, co-authored with M. Monselise and A. Jazayeri, has presented a full paper, titled "Identifying Important Risk Factors Associated with Vehicle Injuries using Driving Behavior Data and Predictive Analytics," a data analytics challenge paper as well as a doctoral consortium poster in IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2019), Xi'an, China, June 10 – 13, 2019.
• C. C. Yang, O. S. Liang, S. Ontanon, W. Ke, H. Loeb, and C. Klauer, “Predictive Modeling with Vehicle Sensor Data and IoT for Injury Prevention,” presented in IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing 2018 (IEEE CIC 2018), Philadelphia, PA, October 18 – 20, 2018.
• M. Zhao and C. C. Yang, “Automated Off-label Drug Use Detection from User Generated Content,” presented in the 8th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics 2017 (ACM BCB 2017), Boston, MA, August 20 – 23, 2017.
• M. Zhao and C. C. Yang , “Detecting Off-label Uses of Prescription Drugs with Meta-Path-Based Mining,” presented in the AMIA 2017 Annual Symposium, Washington, DC, November 4 – 8, 2017.
• M. Zhao and C. C. Yang, “Mining Online Heterogeneous Healthcare Networks for Drug Repositioning,” presented in IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Chicago, IL, October 4 – 7, 2016.
• H. Yang and C. C. Yang, “Discovering Drug-Drug Interactions and Associated Adverse Drug Reactions with Triad Prediction in Heterogeneous Healthcare Networks,” presented inIEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Chicago, IL, October 4 – 7, 2016.
• L. Jiang and C. C. Yang, “Personalized Recommendation in Online Health Communities with Heterogeneous Network Mining,” presented inIEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Chicago, IL, October 4 – 7, 2016.
• L. Jiang and C. C. Yang, “Determining User Similarity in Healthcare Social Media using Content Similarity and Structural Similarity,” presented in the 15th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2015), Pavia, Italy, June 17 - 20, 2015.
• C. C. Yang, E. Ip, N. Avis, Q. Ping, and L. Jiang, “A Comparative Study of Symptom Clustering on Clinical and Social Media Data,” presented in International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction 2015, Washington, D. C., April 1 - 3, 2015.
• L. Jiang and C. C. Yang, “Expanding Consumer Health Vocabularies by Learning Consumer Health Expressions from Online Health Social Media,” presented in PInternational Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction 2015, Washington, D. C., April 1 - 3, 2015.
• Q. Ping, C. C. Yang, D. E. Ramo, “Engagement in a Facebook Smoking Cessation Intervention for Young Adults: Effects of Motivation and Monetary Incentive,” presented in 2015 Society For Research On Nicotine And Tobacco (SRNT) 21ST Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, February 25-28, 2015.
• C. C. Yang, S. Lin, M. C. Kim, L. Jiang, “ACTONNECT: A Platform to Support Patients and Researchers Collaboration,” presented in IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics 2014 (ICHI 2014), Verona, Italy, September 15-17, 2014.
• M. Zhang and C. C. Yang, “Classifying User Intention and Social Support Types in Online Healthcare Discussions,”   presented in IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics 2014 (ICHI 2014), Verona, Italy, September 15-17, 2014.
• H. Yang and C. C. Yang, “Drug-Drug Interactions Detection from Online Heterogeneous Healthcare Network,”   presented in IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics 2014 (ICHI 2014), Verona, Italy, September 15-17, 2014.
• P. S. Sockolow, S Schug, T. J. Smith, J. Zhu, C. C. Yang, Y. Senathirajah, S. Bloom, “User-centered participatory design with at-risk teens of a psycho-educational mHealth interactive story to reduce risky sexual behavior,” presented in American Public Health Association Conference, November 2014, New Orleans, LA.
• M. Zhang and C. C. Yang, “Classification of Online Health Discussions with Text and Health Features Sets,”   presented in AAAI International Workshop on the World Wide Web and Public Health Intelligence 2014 (W3PHI 2014), Quebec City, Canada, July 27, 2014.
• M. Zhang and C. C. Yang, “A Comparative Study of Smoking Cessation Programs on Web Forum and Facebook,”   presented in International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction, Washington, D.C., April 2 - 4, 2014.
• L. Jiang and C. C. Yang, “Using Co-occurrence Analysis to Expand Consumer Health Vocabularies from Social Media Data,”  presented in IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Philadelphia, PA, September 8 - 11, 2013.
• H. Yang and C. C. Yang, “Harnessing Social Media for Drug-Drug Interactions Detection,” presented in IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Philadelphia, PA, September 8 - 11, 2013.
• M. Zhang and C. C. Yang, “Social Support and Exchange Patterns in an Online Smoking Cessation Intervention Program,” presented in IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, Philadelphia, PA, September 8 - 11, 2013.
• M. Zhang and C. C. Yang, “The Effectiveness of Smoking Cessation Intervention on Facebook: A Preliminary Study of Post and Users,” presented in International Conference on Smart Health, Beijing, China, August 3 - 4, 2013.
• X. Tang, M. Zhang, and C. C. Yang, “Leveraging User Interest to Improve Thread Recommendation in Online Forum,” presented in International Conference on Social Intelligence and Technology, State College, PA, May 8 – 9, 2013.
• H. Yang, J. Li, C. C. Yang, V. Kandadai, F. K. Winston, “A Content-Based Approach to Identify theTarget Users for Health Intervention in Social Media – A Case Study onSafetyMD,” presented in Medicine 2.0 Congress, London, England, September 23 – 24, 2013.