Toufeeq Ahmed Syed

Dr. Syed is an Associate Professor and Assistant Dean of Education Informatics at McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston. He is also an Associate Professor at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston. Before joining UTHealth in 2023, he was Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Dr. Syed has more than a decade of experience serving in Informatics and Artificial Intelligence leadership roles: He was Chief Technology Officer for an NSF-funded AI startup, Founding Director and Executive Director at Health IT at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and Assistant Dean of Education Informatics for Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and has developed many innovative technology platforms including VSTAR, QuizTime, TurnOut, and Spark. He has over 15 years of experience developing national online platforms. He actively leads education informatics research and innovations and is active in national and international medical education technology and data standards committees. Dr. Syed is a computer scientist by training with expertise in Artificial Intelligence, education technology, social network analysis, student portfolio systems, natural language processing, information retrieval, data integration, ontologies, and adaptive recommender systems. Syed Lab is leading Precision Education in Healthcare and Mentoring Networks research by developing innovative AI-based national online platforms (National Research Mentoring Network, AIM-AHEAD Connect) to deliver personalized education, mentoring, and career growth, thereby enabling intervention-based research and increasing the nation's biomedical and Artificial Intelligence workforce. He will contribute to AI/ML/NLP and focus on the dissemination effort of ReCARDO.