Research Associate Professor
Tezcan Ozrazgat-Baslanti, PhD
Dr. Tezcan Ozrazgat-Baslanti is a Research Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at the University of Florida. She earned her PhD degree in Statistics at the University of Florida. She worked as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Florida under the supervision of Dr. Azra Bihorac from 09/2011 to 04/2015. She serves as a key faculty in the Data Management and Biostatistics Core of the University of Florida Sepsis and Critical Illness Research Center (SCIRC) and as the liaison between the Department of Anesthesiology’s research in perioperative outcomes in critical illness led by Dr.Bihorac and the director of the Data Management and Biostatistics Core, Dr.Brumback.
Research AssisTant Professor
Zhenhong Hu, PhD
Dr. Zhenhong Hu is currently serving as a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at the College of Medicine and the Intelligent Clinical Care Center (IC3), University of Florida. His academic journey began with a bachelor’s degree in Electronic Information Engineering, followed by a Master’s in Computer Science. Dr. Hu earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering. His research mainly focuses on leveraging machine learning, AI, multimodal representation learning, AR/VR/XR, digital twin, and HCI to advance clinical decision making, precision medicine, and improve patient care.
Data Scientist II
Esra Adiyeke, PhD
Esra received her PhD in industrial engineering (IE) from Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey in 2020. She started MSc studies in IE at Galatasaray University, İstanbul, Turkey in 2011. In 2012, she transferred to Bahçeşehir University (BAU), İstanbul, Turkey and earned her MSc degree in IE from BAU in 2014. She received her BSc in mathematical engineering from Yıldız Technical University, İstanbul, Turkey in 2011.
Postdoctoral Associate
Ceyhun Haziroglu, MD
Ceyhun Haziroglu is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Florida’s Intelligent Clinical Care Center (IC3). He graduated with high honors from medical school in Istanbul. At IC3, Dr. Haziroglu works on the development of a digital twin and its digital companion, conducting user studies to evaluate interaction within the system. His work also includes digital-twin hospital simulations, pathology digitization, and large-scale LLM instructional fine-tuning. In addition, he contributes to the UF AI Passport, supporting the integration of AI literacy, competency training, and medical education innovation. Dr. Haziroglu’s professional interests center on how AI and emerging technologies can enhance clinical practice, strengthen medical education, and improve the daily workflow and experience of healthcare providers.
Postdoctoral Associate
Rushi Patel, M.B. Chir.
Rushi is interested in AI in healthcare, clinical decision support and predictive analytics, and digital twin systems for critical and perioperative medicine. He is currently working on autonomous delirium monitoring and adaptive prevention, AI Passport for Biomedical and Clinical Research program, and an AI-enabled intelligent virtual hospital.
Senior Project Manager
Cora Hart, PhD
Cora Hart manages all current PRISMAp and several IC3 research projects. She is interested in AI in medicine, clinical research management, and translational biomedical science with a focus on rare diseases and cardiopulmonary health.
Administrative Specialist III
Alicia Antone, MLIS, MPA, CFRM
Alicia is currently working on mid-year progress reports, updating IC3 annual membership webpages, standard operations manual for IC3, and coordinating IC3 social media posts. She is interested in writing, developing quality AI programs to foster collaboration between researchers, developing evaluation tools to determine program outcomes, research grant funding, and grant writing.
PhD Student
Ahmed Soliman, MS
Ahmed is interested in AI, data science, biomedical informatics, agentic AI, explainable AI, and language models. He is currently working on OncoPilot.
Applications Developer Analyst V
Divya Vellanki, MS
Data Scientist III
Ziyuan Guan
Applications Developer Analyst V
Akshith Ullal, PhD
Akshith is interested in mixed reality, augmented reality, and generative AI. He is currently working on AI Passport for Biomedical and Clinical Research program, an ICU digital twin, and integrating data, algorithms, and clinical reasoning for surgical risk assessment.
Data Scientist
Die Hu, MS
Die is interested in bioinformatics, machine learning, and computational phenotypying. She is currently working on CHoRUS, pervasive sensing and AI for augmented clinical decision-making, and integrating data, algorithms, and clinical reasoning for surgical risk assessment.
Academic Program Specialist
Dre Coleman, MS
Dre is working on the AI Passport for Biomedical and Clinical Research program. He is interested in AI, extended reality, and robotics.
Scientific Writer
Kim Espinoza Pereira, PhD
Kim Espinoza Pereira is the scientific writer for the PRISMAp lab and she currently focuses on managing the editorial process for manuscripts, presentations, and social media. She graduated with her PhD in Biomedical Sciences (Cancer Biology) from the University of Florida.
OPS
Omer Kahveci, BS
Omer is interested in software development, AI, and machine learning. He is currently working on fixing an AKI/CDK algorithm, improving documentation, reviewing and testing code, contributing to front-end and back-end, and maintaining codebases.
Student Assistant
Anina Pillai, MS
Student Assistant
Sonaiya Brown
Sonaiya is interested in writing, copy editing, and healthcare date. She is currently working on writing, editing, and social media for PRISMAp.
Student Assistant
Anna Khan
Anna is currently working as a Student Office Assistant for the AI Passport for Biomedical and Clinical Research Initiative at the PRISMAp Lab. She is interested in learning how to transition AI into healthcare effectively, efficiently, and ethically. Anna is currently pursuing her B.S. degree in psychology, with a minor in business administration, at the University of Florida.
Volunteer
Abigail Rosario
Student Assistant
Gabriel Suvajdziv, BS
Gabriel is interested in digital twins and is currently working on an ICU digital twin.
Student Assistant
Ankith Subhanpuram
Ankith is currently working on the Virtual Avatars digital twin project, driven by his fascination with AI applications in healthcare. He is passionate about learning how AI is transforming our world every day, and he believes that while NLP has made significant strides, its image and video perception will truly advance AI to the next level. Outside the lab, he enjoys exploring emerging AI technologies and their potential to reshape various industries. He is pursuing a masters degree in AI Systems at UF.
Student Assistant
Nirvisha Soni, MS
Nirvisha’s interests span large language models, agentic AI, and scalable software systems. She is currently working on data processing and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines for a hospital digital twin project, focusing on reliable, interpretable, and source-grounded AI for clinical decision support.
Student Assistant
Varun Vemuri
Student Assistant
Joleene Bessada
Student Assistant
Anay Sinhal
Student Assistant
Nishalle A. Uthuppan
Student Assistant
Joshua Thomas, BS
Joshua noted he is interested in the PrismaP Lab for its focus on applying AI in ways that create tangible, real world impact within clinical and research settings. The opportunity to work closely with clinicians and researchers to design intelligent systems that support decision making, reduce friction in workflows, and improve efficiency strongly aligns with his interest in building AI solutions that are both innovative and human centered. Joshua is driven by using AI to solve meaningful problems in complex, high stakes environments. He enjoys bridging technical development with real user needs, and the clinical context pushes him to think deeply about usability, trust, and responsible innovation. Joshua is currently pursuing an M.S. in Artificial Intelligence Systems at the University of Florida, with hands on experience building innovative AI driven products across healthcare, robotics, and digital twin platforms.
Student Assistant
Pritika Kannapiran, MS
Pritika is a highly motivated professional with a strong passion for emerging technologies. She is an early adopter of artificial intelligence and has authored a couple of publications in the areas of deep learning and natural language processing. At the lab, she collaborates closely with healthcare professionals and developers to unlock new possibilities through agentic AI-driven systems.
Past Members
Former Student Assistant
Neel Malwatkar
Neel is passionate about generative AI and agentic systems, with a strong interest in applying them to real-world challenges. He is currently working on retrieval-augmented generation pipelines for the hospital digital twin project, focusing on building scalable and reliable AI systems for clinical applications. Beyond the lab, Neel actively explores emerging technologies, regularly experimenting with new tools and frameworks to strengthen his approach to developing robust AI systems. He has since left after graduation and has a job at Bloomberg in NYC!