Francisco Iacobelli

Francisco Iacobelli is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Informatics and Data Science and the Department of Surgery at Loyola University Chicago. He is also affiliated with the Center for Advancing Safety and Machine Intelligence (CASMI) at Northwestern University. His research focuses on equitable AI applications to address health disparities, particularly for marginalized and low-literacy communities. He holds a B.S. in Systems Engineering from Universidad Diego Portales (Chile), an M.Sc. in Computer Science from DePaul University, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Northwestern University.

Education:

• B.S. Systems Engineering, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile
• M.Sc. Computer Science, DePaul University, Chicago, U.S.
• Ph.D. Computer Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, U.S.

Research Interests:

• Designing AI systems for health literacy in underserved populations
• Intelligent tutoring systems for low-literacy groups
• Natural Language Processing for healthcare communication
• Applications of machine learning to social determinants of health

Publications reflect a focus on equitable AI solutions for healthcare challenges, including interventions for breast cancer survivors, cultural adaptation of technologies, and foundational work in human-computer interaction.

Labs/Teams: Active contributor to Loyola's Health Informatics initiatives and collaborator with CASMI on safety-critical AI systems.