Dr. Philip Payne, Professor and Chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics, has been appointed as the Inaugural Director of the Data Analytics Collaborative, which is part of the Discovery Themes Initiative at The Ohio State University. The
DAC, under the auspices of the broader OSU
Discovery Themes Initiative (https://discovery.osu.edu/), is the virtual and
physical foundation for the recruitment of up to 100 new faculty across the
campus, whose expertise focus in the data analytics domain. As the
Director of the DAC, I will be responsible for both overseeing the recruitment
of these new faculty members, as well as engaging the existing data analytics
community at OSU, in order to create a singular and preeminent presence in data
analytics at our university. This undertaking, as part of the
Discovery Themes Initiative, has the potential to fundamentally
reshape scholarship and innovation at OSU.
Dr. Payne’s background, research and experience align well
with the potential and promise of the Data Analytics Collaborative. He is
an internationally recognized leader in the field of clinical research
informatics and translational bioinformatics. His research has focused on
the use and application of knowledge engineering and human-computer interaction
design principles. And, his work has been published in more than 140
peer-reviewed journal and proceedings articles, books, book chapters and
technical reports.
In addition to serving as chair, he leads his department’s
Laboratory for Knowledge Based Applications and Systems
Engineering. He also serves as the co-director of Ohio State’s
Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Bioinformatics Shared Resource.
He is the associate director for data sciences in the Center forClinical and Translational Science (CCTS); the center is funded with assistance
from an NIH Clinical and Translational Science Award. CCTS is responsible
for the coordination and delivery of data analytics services and capabilities
to the university’s biomedical research community, Nationwide Children’s
Hospital, and a network of regional collaborators. He is also a
co-founder of Signet Accel, LLC, one of Ohio State’s largest software spin-off
companies.
He earned a BA in political science at the University of
California, San Diego. In addition, he earned an MA in medical
informatics, an M. Phil in biomedical informatics, and a PhD with distinction
from Columbia University. He is also an elected fellow of the American
College of Medical Informatics.