Javed Mostafa

Javed Mostafa is a Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto since September 2023. He previously served as Professor and founding Director of UNC's Carolina Health Informatics Program (2011-2023), Deputy Director for Education & Training at UNC's Biomedical Informatics unit (2010-2023), and as Victor H. Yngve Endowed Professor and Associate Dean at Indiana University (2000s).

• Education: PhD in Information Science (1994) from The University of Texas at Austin, MA from The Ohio State University, BSc from Northwestern Oklahoma State University
• Companies: Co-founder of KeonaHealth (2010-present) and Cymantix (2018-present)

His research focuses on multimedia information retrieval, personalization/user modeling, and cyberinfrastructure for research. Key contributions include:

• Development of neurophysiologically-informed information retrieval systems
• Creation of the Health Data Exchange platform for expert identification
• Advancements in SNOMED CT-based clinical cohort identification
• Editorial leadership as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology
• Establishment of the Laboratory of Applied Informatics Research (LAIR) at U of T

Mostafa's scientific awards include:

• Victor H. Yngve Endowed Professorship
• McColl Term Professorship

His work spans interdisciplinary collaborations with grants like the Sponsored Research Agreement (2025-2026) for the Society 2025 project. He has authored over 105 peer-reviewed publications and contributed to policy development for health data systems in India, Malawi, and Bangladesh.