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George Heintz

Advisor: Prof. Jimeng Sun

Education

  • Public Health Informatics, MSPHI, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health
  • Electrical Engineering, Dipl. Ing.,  University of Applied Sciences at KL, College of Engineering

 

Grants

  • 2022 Jump Arches Award | Few Shot Learning, Facial Expressions
  • 2022 Jump Arches Award | Detection and Prediction of Facial Expression for Parkinsonism Powered by Few-Shot Learning
  • 2022 Jump Arches Award | Improving the Lives of Children with Asthma by Individualizing the Asthma Care Plan Based on Children’s Home Exposure to Asthma Triggers
  • 2021 Jump Arches Award | Video Enhanced Neurology (Principal Investigator)
  • 2021 Jump Arches Award | 7T MRI Imaging of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
  • 2021 Jump Arches Award | Spatio-temporal Analysis with Tensor Factorization anD Visualization for Pediatric Mobile Vaccination
  • 2020 FDA | AFDO-Managed Retail Program Standards Grant Program: Towards a Uniform Inspection Program-Food Inspection Report Analytics Tool (FIRAT)
  • 2020 C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute research grant: Secure Federated Learning for Clinical Informatics with Applications to the COVID-19 Pandemic
  • 2020 Jump Arches Award | Secure Federated Learning for Collaborative Diagnostics
  • 2019 Jump Arches Award | Digitizing the Neurological Examination
  • 2019 Jump Arches Award | Steady, Reducing Falls of Older Adults in Rural Areas
  • 2019 FDA | AFDO-Managed Retail Program Standards Grant Program: Inspection Report Text Analysis - Towards a Uniform Inspection Program
  • 2019 UIUC Strategic Research Initiative Award | Digital Era Formats (Phase II)
  • 2018 UIUC Strategic Research Initiative Award | Genomic Data Compression (Phase I)

Awards and Honors

  • 2022 Named Fellow, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, NCSA
  • 2007 IBM Award for Excellence Achievements | Business Transformation Program, Process Management

Additional Campus Affiliations

  • Coordinated Science Laboratory, Health Care Engineering Systems Center 

Recent Publications

  • Junyi Gao, Chaoqi Yang, Joerg Heintz, Scott Barrows, Elise Albers, Mary Stapel, Sara Warfield, Adam Cross, Jimeng Sun; MedML: Fusing medical knowledge and machine learning models for early pediatric COVID-19 hospitalization and severity prediction, iScience, Volume 25, Issue 9, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.104970.
  • Hoang, Trung-Hieu; Zehni, Mona; Xu, Huaijin; Heintz, George; Zallek, Christopher; Do, Minh N. (2022) Towards a Comprehensive Solution for a Vision-based DigitizedNeurological Examination, arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.07209
  • Heintz, Joerg (2020), Predicting Parkinson’s Disease in Rural America Based on Initial Examination Data
  • Zhang, Y., Manjunath, M., Kim, Y., Heintz, J., & Song, J. S. (2018). SequencEnG: an Interactive Knowledge Base of Sequencing Techniques. BioRxiv, 319079. http://doi.org/10.1101/319079
  • Shoaib, T., Heintz, J., Lopez-Berganza, J. A., Muro-Barrios, R., Egner, S. A., & Espinosa-Marzal, R. M. (2018). Stick-Slip Friction Reveals Hydrogel Lubrication Mechanisms. Langmuir. http://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b02834