V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran

Dr. V.G.Vinod Vydiswaran is an Assistant Professor of Learning Health Sciences at the University of Michigan Medical School. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois (2012) and has held roles including Postdoctoral Researcher at the Information Trust Institute (2013) and Research Fellow at the School of Information (2013-2015).

His research focuses on information trustworthiness, health informatics, and NLP applications in healthcare. Notable projects include analyzing medical text credibility, mining health forums for consumer vocabulary, and developing bias mitigation systems.

Key awards include the 2005 COMAD Best Paper Award and recognition for teaching excellence. He has served on program committees for AAAI, CIKM, and AMIA, and contributed tutorials on Information Trustworthiness and Recognizing Textual Entailment.

His work bridges computer science and healthcare, with publications in venues like ACL, KDD, and JASIST.