Alan Zhang

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2ranked-venue papers in the field
1as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
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Big Data, Cloud & Distributed Data Systems · 2 (1 first)
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Visualizing Asthma-Related Digital Health Data for Everyday Users
Alan Zhang, Hamid Mansoor
IEEE Big Data1
2024 Natural Language Processing for Extracting Rich Disease Data Aligned To Satellite Meteorological Data
abstract
Global climate change is redefining our understanding of how diseases spread. In Sri Lanka, vector-borne diseases such as dengue fever historically surged during the monsoon seasons when temperatures were high enough for mosquito eggs to hatch. Unfortunately, due to rising temperatures and more erratic rainfall patterns, mosquito eggs can now hatch year-round making outbreaks increasingly unpredictable, leading to an alarming rise in hospitalizations and deaths. More data is needed to adapt our response to these diseases in an increasingly warmer world. In the contemporary landscape, a wealth of disease information is available, yet accessibility remains limited due to unstructured data formats such as PDFs. Therefore, converting unstructured disease reports into structured formats is necessary for effectively leveraging data. This paper introduces a comprehensive framework for collecting unstructured disease reports and transforming them into analyzable formats. By creating separate models tailored to each data format, we can ensure accuracy compared to general models. These straightforward models enhance accessibility and empower other researchers to use our tools. The returned structured data can then be harnessed for analysis, statistical purposes, and informing evidence-based public health interventions, thus facilitating more informed decision-making in healthcare. We deploy this framework to produce geospatial data for Sri Lanka and Brazil for many different conditions and align these data with satellite environmental data, providing for the first time a structured, aligned powerful dataset for disease modeling.
Mahi Pasarkar, Junseob Kim, Eoin O'Gara, Alan Zhang, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Thilanka Munasinghe, Jiaqi Weng, David Qiu, Ethan Cruz, Jennifer C. Wei, Ashan Pathirana
IEEE Big Data4