Protiva Rahman, PhD | Department of Biomedical Informatics

Protiva Rahman, PhD, is a Research Assistant Professor in the Health Outcomes and Biomedical Informatics Department at the University of Florida, with an adjunct appointment in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at VUMC. Previously Dr. Rahman completed her postdoctoral fellowship in Biomedical Informatics at VUMC and received her PhD in Computer Science from the Ohio State University in 2020.

Dr. Rahman is interested in building tools to democratize data science, with a focus on empowering domain experts in healthcare. Her research spans the disciplines of data science, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction in domains of infectious diseases and cancer. Her overarching goal is to bridge the gap between data and domain experts. To this end, her PhD thesis presented a framework to amplify expertise in clinical data pipelines while her postdoctoral work aimed to automate data extraction from unstructured texts such as EHR notes and biomedical literature using NLP.