Gondy Leroy, PhD

Gondy Leroy, Ph.D., is Professor of MIS and Associate Dean for Research at the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management and Research Director of the Center for Management Innovations in Healthcare. Her research focuses on natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) and has been funded by NIH, AHRQ, NSF, Microsoft Research, and several foundations. She earned a combined BS-MS (1996) in cognitive, experimental psychology from the Catholic University of Leuven (1996) in Belgium and a MS (1999) and PhD (2003) in management information systems from the University of Arizona. She serves on the editorial board of several journals, co-chairs special issues, sessions, tracks, workshops, and conferences, and serves as a standing member of the NIH Clinical Data Management and Analysis (CDMA) Study Section. She is the author of the book “Designing User Studies in Informatics (Springer, 2011). Finally, she mentors students from high school and through graduate school.