Masoud Rouhizadeh

Dr. Masoud Rouhizadeh is an Assistant Professor in the AI in Health Sciences initiative at the University of Florida's College of Pharmacy and Associate Director of the Intelligent Critical Care Center (IC3). He also holds an Adjunct Assistant Professor position at Johns Hopkins Medicine. His expertise spans biomedical informatics, natural language processing (NLP), and artificial intelligence (AI) applied to healthcare.

• Education: PhD and M.Sc. in Computer Science from Oregon Health & Science University, M.A. in Human Language Technology from University of Trento, and additional degrees in Linguistics and Computer Science.
• Leadership: Co-founder of Johns Hopkins' Center for Clinical NLP (C2NLP), core member of UF's AI Task Force, and leads the AI Collaboration Hub at IC3.

Research focuses on AI-driven analyses of healthcare data, particularly leveraging LLMs/NLP for mental health outcomes, substance use patterns, and Alzheimer’s risk identification. His work emphasizes translational science and clinical application, supported by grants from CDC, NIA, FDA, and PCORI.

Teaching includes courses on AI in pharmacy, pharmaceutical outcomes, and data interpretation, with a focus on curriculum development and interdisciplinary education. He has mentored over 30 students and clinicians, many securing positions at Harvard, UCLA, FDA, and tech giants like Google and NVIDIA.

Key grants include the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (NIA) and a CDC-funded study on lifestyle intervention barriers. His labs develop informatics infrastructure for multi-site healthcare networks and scalable NLP solutions for unstructured medical data.