Syed Ahmad Chan Bukhari

Syed Ahmad Chan Bukhari is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Science at The Lesley H. and William L. Collins College of Professional Studies, St. John's University, New York. He also serves as the Director of Research and Director of Healthcare Informatics at CCPS. Bukhari holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of New Brunswick and a postdoctoral fellowship from Yale University, with additional work at Stanford University's CEDAR Metadata Center.

His research focuses on biomedical informatics, trustworthy AI, machine learning, and healthcare data standards. He teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in healthcare informatics and computer science. Bukhari leads an NSF-funded lab (bukharilab.org) and has developed protocols for biomedical data standardization with NCBI, including MiAIRR and CEDAR-to-NCBI pipelines.

Notable awards include ACM Distinguished Speaker, Senior Member IEEE, and an NIH-NCBI Fellowship (2016). His work emphasizes reproducibility in biomedical data and FAIR principles. Recent projects include federated knowledge graphs, AI-driven tutoring systems, and sustainable AI in finance.