Portrait of Muhammad "Tuan" Amith, MS, PhD
Phone: (409) 772-6804
Fax: (409) 772-5272
Physical Address:
UHC, Suite 4.540
1005 Harborside Drive
Galveston, TX
Mailing Address:
301 University Boulevard
Galveston, TX 77555-1150

Muhammad "Tuan" Amith, MS, PhD

Assistant Professor
Department of Biostatistics & Data Science

About Me

Dr. Muhammad "Tuan" Amith is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biostatistics and Data Science at the University of Texas Medical Branch, focusing on public health and consumer health informatics research. Dr. Amith received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science and Software Engineering. Previously, he served as an Assistant Professor at UTHealth within the School of Biomedical Informatics, and he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Information Science at the University of North Texas.

Affiliations

  • UTMB Department of Internal Medicine
  • McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
  • Editorial Board, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Education

  • PhD, Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 2019
  • MS, Software Engineering, University of Houston-Clear Lake, 2010
  • BS, Computer Science (Science Concentration), University of Houston-Victoria, 2003

Research

Areas of Interest

  • Biomedical Ontologies and AI-based Semantic Application of Controlled Terminologies
  • Public Health and Consumer Health Informatics
  • Clinical Natural Language Processing and Text/Literature Mining
  • Development and Usability of mHealth Applications
  • FAIR and Open Science Data
  • Process Modeling for Clinical Procedures

Publications

Phone: (409) 772-6804
Fax: (409) 772-5272
Physical Address:
UHC, Suite 4.540
1005 Harborside Drive
Galveston, TX
Mailing Address:
301 University Boulevard
Galveston, TX 77555-1150

General Requests: (409) 772-1128
Applicants: (409) 747-7584