I am a Professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) with a primary appointment in the Health Policy and Management Department under the College of Public Health and a secondary appointment in the Department of Biomedical Informatics under the College of Medicine (Jan '22 - present). With an educational background in informatics, software engineering, and computer science, I conduct translational informatics research to improve pressing healthcare challenges. My current research areas
I received my undergraduate and Master’s Degrees in Computer Engineering (Sep '92 - Dec '98) in Izmir, Turkey, where I was introduced to quality and process improvement research with a focus on organizations developing large-scale software products. I obtained my second Master's degree in Software Engineering from the Southern Methodist University (SMU), Dallas, TX, in 2002. During my Ph.D. in Computer Science at SMU, I focused on empirical software engineering research and applied various statistical and m
As a faculty member at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Aug '04 - Dec '21), I continued research in several areas, including empirical software engineering, software quality assurance in biomedical open-source software projects, health data de-identification, health information technology (IT) adoption and use, and data analytics to improve healthcare quality. Since 2008, health informatics, particularly, "home healthcare" informatics and IT has been my main area of interest. Over the years, I