Guy C. Hembroff

Dr. Guy C. Hembroff is an Associate Professor in the College of Computing at Michigan Technological University, serving as the founding director of the MS in Health Informatics Program and director of the Computational Science & Engineering PhD Program. He leads the Biomedical Data Science (BDS) Lab, focusing on healthcare innovation through AI, cybersecurity, and data science. His expertise spans machine learning, medical image analysis, and healthcare interoperability.

Education: PhD in Computational Science & Engineering (Michigan Tech), MPA in Public Administration (Northern Michigan University), BS in Finance and Economics (Michigan Tech).

Research interests include human health-focused AI/ML models, cybersecurity in healthcare, medical image segmentation, and public health surveillance. His work emphasizes collaboration with medical institutions like Henry Ford Hospital to develop clinical decision support systems and improve disease surveillance. Recent projects include AI-driven fracture risk prediction from knee radiographs and enhancing mental health intervention efficacy through multi-source data integration.

Advising includes four doctoral students in areas like medical image analysis, blockchain for patient data security, and cost-effective mental health modeling. His software projects include FHIR-enabled health information exchange systems and Tick-Talk, a crowdsourced tick disease monitoring platform.

Labs/Teams: The BDS Lab integrates expertise in medicine, AI, and cybersecurity to tackle healthcare challenges, emphasizing real-world impact through industry and academic partnerships.