Özlem Uzuner

Özlem Uzuner is a tenured Professor and Department Chair of Information Sciences and Technology at George Mason University's College of Engineering and Computing. She is an expert in Natural Language Processing and its applications to healthcare and policy, with a focus on translating fragmented clinical narratives into actionable data.

Research Interests: Her work spans Health Informatics, Public Health Informatics, Mental Health Informatics, and Computational Social Science. She develops algorithms for information extraction, semantic representation, and applications in phenotype prediction, fraud detection, and topic modeling.

Funding & Affiliations: Uzuner's research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, National Institute of Mental Health, Office of the National Coordinator, and industry partners. She is also a research affiliate at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

Scientific Awards:

• NSF grant for supporting socioeconomically disadvantaged students