Vignesh Subbian, PhD

Vignesh Subbian works at the nexus of systems engineering, medicine, and informatics. As a health systems scientist and informatician, he studies clinical decision-making in the context of sociotechnical systems using both cognitive engineering and computational methods, with an emphases on phenotyping, explainability, and health equity.

He is currently a Joint Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Systems and Industrial Engineering, a member of the BIO5 Institute, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Center for University Education Scholarship (CUES) at the University of Arizona. In his role as Associate Director for the Center for Biomedical Informatics & Biostatistics, he leads informatics service cores for multiple, large-scale NIH initiatives in Arizona including the All of Us Research Program and the Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) Initiative.

He is also the program director for two training programs: (1) Place-based Health Informatics Research Education (PHIRE, “fire”) program, a National Library of Medicine (NLM) initiative for undergraduate research training and (2) eCAMINOS (engineering pathways) program, supported by the National Science Foundation. His educational research as a part of these training programs is focused on asset-based practices, ethics education, and formation of professional identities.