Ankur Agrawal

Ankur Agrawal is the Chair and Professor of Computer Science at St. Edward's University, School of Natural Sciences. His research focuses on Biomedical Informatics with an emphasis on ontology engineering and quality assurance of healthcare terminologies like SNOMED CT. Dr. Agrawal also serves as CAC Commissioner and Team Chair at ABET, demonstrating leadership in accreditation and educational standards.

His work centers on improving healthcare data systems through machine learning applications, lexical analysis, and structural consistency checks in biomedical ontologies. Key contributions include developing tools for crowd-sourced ontology curation and visualizing SNOMED CT hierarchies.

Publications from 2013-2024 consistently address quality assurance challenges in healthcare terminologies, leveraging both algorithmic and contextual methods. No scholarly awards are explicitly mentioned in the provided texts.

Advising and grants: No specific student advisees or grant details provided in the text. His professional roles extend beyond academia to ABET, where he contributes to accreditation processes for engineering and technology programs.

Labs/teams: Involved with ABET's accreditation committees and maintains a research focus through BioPortal and SNOMED CT initiatives.