Political Science and Public Administration

Associate Professor
Department of Political Science and Public Administration

My research has focused on the intersectionality of emerging technologies and health data privacy and protection and emphasized privacy conceptualizations and health technology acceptance in comparative cultures. [read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’] I am particularly interested in the application of technologies such as radio frequency identification (RFID), biometrics, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and blockchains and protecting and preserving data privacy in healthcare in diverse, regulatory systems. I examine the role of ethics-by-design in building trust and technology acceptance. I presented two research projects, “Building Bi-level Awareness and Public Trust to Implement Big Data in Mitochondrial Health and Disease Research: Comparing Privacy and Ethics in Global Research” and “Vascular Inflammation and Cardiovascular Risk Quantification and Monitoring in Internet of Vehicle Participant Technologies: Layered Privacy, Trust, and Security in Precision Care,” at the National Institutes of Health in 2016. The vascular inflammation research abstract was selected one of the twelve notable abstracts/posters among the 110 accepted scientific abstracts. I presented “RFID Implant Technology and Artificial Intelligence: Can We Spell Ethics and Trust?” at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Southeastern Michigan Conference on Ethics in Engineering in 2017. Related articles include “Health-care Data Protection and Biometric Authentication Policies: Comparative Culture and Technology Acceptance in China and the United States” in Review of Policy Research and the co-authored “Privacy-preserving Techniques of Genomic Data–A Survey” in Briefings in Bioinformatics, https://doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbx139 . As an invited participant, I contributed to the design of the health privacy sector of the 5th Cybersecurity Framework Workshop of the U. S. Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology in 2013. I was the lead PI in the big data and health disparities interdisciplinary team’s application for the National Science Foundation South Hub Big Data Awards in 2016. I am currently researching the role of privacy and ethics in healthcare data using blockchain technology and collaborating on the study of assistive technologies and robotic density in long-distance caregiving.[/read]

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