Suzanne Tamang

Suzanne Tamang is currently an Assistant Professor with the Stanford University School of Medicine and also a Computer Scientist with the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention. She works with interdisciplinary teams of experts on population health problems of public interest with a focus on chronic disease, disability, and mental health. Integral to her work is the analysis of large and complex population-based datasets, using techniques from natural language processing, machine learning, and deep learning. She brings extensive experience with U.S. and Danish population-based registries, Electronic Medical Records from various vendors, administrative claims, and other types of observational health and demographic data sources in the U.S. and internationally; also, constructing, populating, and applying knowledge-bases for automated reasoning. She has developed open-source tools for the extraction of health information from unstructured free-text patient notes and licensed machine learning prediction models to Silicon Valley health analytics startups. In addition to her more traditional research activities, she also functions as a Faculty Mentor for the Stanford Community Working Group Stats for Good.