Bio 

Dr. Hegler Tissot is a senior research fellow in Health Informatics. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Universidade Federal do Paraná in 2016, as a member of the C3SL Labs, and was a postdoctoral researcher at Macquarie University, in 2017. He mostly works with knowledge engineering, and his main research interest is about improving public health services by applying natural language processing to extract structured information from electronic health records and using machine learning to design classifiers, prediction models and risk assessment applications within the clinical domain.

* * *

With over 30 years of experience in computer science, he worked in designing large transactional and analytical database systems in many industry sectors. He also has large experience in data mining and data visualization techniques, both applied in several projects, mostly within the Telecom and Healthcare industry sectors for more than 15 years.

* * *

His main interests in Data Science range from Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Ontologies, Pattern Recognition, and Information Extraction. His research is mostly focused on applying those technologies to unlock clinical evidence from patient data and improve healthcare related services within the clinical domain, targeting the design and development of clinical predictive and risk assessment models.

* * *

Journal of Digital Health's Editorial Board Member.

* * *

Please use the icons below to now more about this project and get in touch.