Anthony Rios

Dr. Anthony Rios is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), affiliated with the Alvarez College of Business. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky (2018) and a B.S. in Computer Science from Georgetown College (2011). His research focuses on biomedical informatics, computational social science, natural language processing (NLP), and machine learning, with applications in healthcare and social media analysis. Dr. Rios has published extensively in top venues such as EMNLP, NAACL, AMIA, and JAMIA, and has received awards including a distinguished poster finalist award at AMIA 2014 and a best paper finalist at ICHI 2015.

His work includes developing robust NLP systems for electronic medical records (EMR) coding, combating bias in AI systems (e.g., dialect biases in privacy policies), and enhancing cybersecurity through SQL-based threat detection frameworks. He leads the UTSA-NLP team, contributing to projects like ArchEHR-QA and Chemotimelines. Current research explores large language model (LLM) validation, ethical AI, and scalable evaluation of data visualization systems.

• Education:
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Kentucky, 2018
  • B.S. in Computer Science, Georgetown College, 2011
• Awards:
  • 2014: Distinguished Poster Finalist Award, AMIA
  • 2015: Best Technical Paper Finalist, ICHI
• Labs/Teams:
  • UTSA-NLP Lab, focused on NLP applications in healthcare and cybersecurity