Tsung-ting Kuo

Title(s)	Assistant Adjunct Professor, Medicine
School	Vc-health Sciences-schools
Address	9500 Gilman Drive # La Jolla CA 92093
ORCID	0000-0002-8728-4477
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Biography

Education and Training

University of California San Diego (UCSD), USA	Postdoc	01/2019	Biomedical Informatics
National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan	Ph.D.	01/2014	Networking and Multimedia
National Chao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan	M.S.	06/2003	Computer and Information Science
National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan	B.S.	06/2001	Computer Science and Information Engineering

Awards and Honors

UCSD	2023	Academic Senate Health Science Travel Award
UCSD	2021	Academic Senate Health Science Travel Award
UCSD Health Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI)	2020	Faculty of the Year
UCSD	2019	Academic Senate Health Science Travel Award
UCSD	2018	Chancellor's Outstanding Postdoctoral Scholar Award
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)	2016	Use of Blockchain in Health IT and Health-related Research Challenge Winner
Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP)	2014	Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, Runner-Up
Taiwan Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (TIEEE)	2014	Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, Runner-Up
Conference on Technologies and Applications of Artificial Intelligence (TAAI)	2014	Merit Paper Award
ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD)	2013	Student Travel Award
Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship (FAOS)	2013	Outstanding Students Conference Travel Grant
Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP)	2012	Outstanding Students Conference Travel Grant
ACM SIGKDD	2011	KDD Cup 2011 Champion of Track 1 and 2
NTU	2011	Outstanding Performance Scholarship
ACM Special Interest Group on Computer GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH)	2010	Student Research Competition Semi-Finalist
ACM SIGKDD	2010	KDD Cup 2010 Champion of All-Team and Student-Team
ACM SIGKDD	2009	KDD Cup 2009 3rd Place of Slow Track
CyberLink	2009	Outstanding Scholarship
ACM SIGKDD	2008	KDD Cup 2008 Co-Champion (with IBM Research)
NTU	2008	Outstanding Study Group Award
NCTU	2002	Presidential Award
Institute of Information & Computing Machinery (IICM)	2001	Technology Graduate Record Examinations Computer Science Contest 46th Place (Top 4.3% in Taiwan)
NCKU Computer Science and Information Engineering	2001	Graduation Project Contest Outstanding Award
NCKU Computer Science and Information Engineering	2001	Programming Contest 2nd Place

Overview

Dr. Tsung-Ting Kuo is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in University of California San Diego (UCSD) Health Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI). He earned his PhD from National Taiwan University (NTU) in the Institute of Networking and Multimedia. Prior to becoming a faculty member, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar at UCSD DBMI and received the UCSD Chancellor’s Outstanding Postdoctoral Scholar Award. He was a major contributor towards the UCSD DBMI team winning the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) healthcare blockchain challenge, and also the NTU team winning the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) Cup competition four times. He was awarded a NIH R01 Research Project Grant, a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award with an Administrative Supplement, a R13 Support for Conferences and Scientific Meetings Grant, as well as UCSD Academic Senate Health Science Research Grants, for blockchain-based and predictive biomedical, healthcare and genomic studies. His research focuses on blockchain technologies, machine learning, and natural language processing.

Interests

Blockchain Technology, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing

Websites

	Google Scholar (Full Publication List with Citations)
	NCBI Bibliography (Full Publication List)

In The News

UC San Diego selected to lead components of the NIH Common Fund's Bridge2AI program (Sep 13, 2022)

Research

Research Activities and Funding

Positive Clostridioides Difficile Test Results Prediction
UCSD Academic Senate RG114001Jun 1, 2023 - May 31, 2024
Role: Principal Investigator

iDASH Genome Privacy and Security Competition Workshop
NIH R13HG012902Feb 16, 2023 - Jan 31, 2028
Role: Contact Multiple Principal Investigator

SOCAL: Privacy-protecting Sharing Of Clinical Data Across Laboratories
NIH R01EB031030Sep 30, 2022 - Jun 30, 2026
Role: Principal Investigator

A FAIR Bridge2AI Center (FABRIC)
NIH U54HG012510Jul 8, 2022 - Apr 30, 2026
Role: Co-Investigator

Genetic & Social Determinants of Health: Center for Admixture Science and Technology
NIH RM1HG011558Sep 22, 2021 - Jun 30, 2026
Role: Co-Investigator

COVID-19 Image Sharing with Improved Availability, Provenance, and Immutability
UCSD Academic Senate RG100836Mar 1, 2021 - Feb 28, 2022
Role: Principal Investigator

RADx-Rad Discoveries & Data: Consortium Coordination Center Program Organization
NIH U24LM013755Dec 21, 2020 - Nov 30, 2024
Role: Co-Investigator

iAGREE: A Multi-Center, Networked Patient Consent Study
NIH R01HG011066May 1, 2020 - Feb 28, 2025
Role: Co-Investigator

All-of-Us Phase II Consortium Demo Project (Parent: California Precision Medicine Research Program Consortium)
NIH OT2OD026552 D040Nov 1, 2019 - Mar 31, 2020
Role: Co-Investigator

Blockchain-based Predictive Modeling on Real-World Networks
UCSD Academic Senate RG084150Jun 1, 2019 - May 31, 2020
Role: Principal Investigator

BECKON - Block Estimate Chain: creating Knowledge ON demand & protecting privacy
NIH R00HG009680May 1, 2019 - Apr 30, 2022
Role: Principal Investigator

CALIFORNIA: Cloud-agnostic Architecture to Locate Indexed FAIR Objects and safely Reuse them in New Integrated Analyses
NIH OT3OD025462Sep 30, 2017 - Nov 30, 2018
Role: Co-Investigator

BECKON - Block Estimate Chain: creating Knowledge ON demand & protecting privacy
NIH K99HG009680Aug 24, 2017 - Jun 30, 2019
Role: Principal Investigator

Bibliographic

Publications

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Biomedical blockchain with practical implementations and quantitative evaluations: a systematic review. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2024 May 20; 31(6):1423-1435. Lacson R, Yu Y, Kuo TT, Ohno-Machado L. PMID: 38726710; PMCID: PMC11105130.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 2 Fields:
Med Medical Informatics
Translation:Humans
Early prediction of long hospital stay for Intensive Care units readmission patients using medication information. Comput Biol Med. 2024 May; 174:108451. Zhang M, Kuo TT. PMID: 38603899; PMCID: PMC11385457.

View in: PubMed Mentions: Fields:
Bio Biology Med Medical Informatics Med Medicine (General)
Translation:Humans
Profiling Clinical Researchers Effectively using Embeddings and Clustering. medRxiv. 2024 Jan 17. Sharma A, Edelson M, Kuo TT. PMID: 38293223; PMCID: PMC10827253.

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Blockchain-enabled immutable, distributed, and highly available clinical research activity logging system for federated COVID-19 data analysis from multiple institutions. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2023 05 19; 30(6):1167-1178. Kuo TT, Pham A, Edelson ME, Kim J, Chan J, Gupta Y, Ohno-Machado L, R2D2 Consortium. PMID: 36916740; PMCID: PMC10198529.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 6 Fields:
Med Medical Informatics
Translation:Humans
A hierarchical strategy to minimize privacy risk when linking "De-identified" data in biomedical research consortia. J Biomed Inform. 2023 03; 139:104322. Ohno-Machado L, Jiang X, Kuo TT, Tao S, Chen L, Ram PM, Zhang GQ, Xu H. PMID: 36806328; PMCID: PMC10975485.

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Med Medical Informatics
Translation:Humans
The evolving privacy and security concerns for genomic data analysis and sharing as observed from the iDASH competition. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2022 11 14; 29(12):2182-2190. Kuo TT, Jiang X, Tang H, Wang X, Harmanci A, Kim M, Post K, Bu D, Bath T, Kim J, Liu W, Chen H, Ohno-Machado L. PMID: 36164820; PMCID: PMC9667175.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 5 Fields:
Med Medical Informatics
Quorum-based model learning on a blockchain hierarchical clinical research network using smart contracts. Int J Med Inform. 2023 01; 169:104924. Kuo TT, Pham A. PMID: 36402113; PMCID: PMC9984225.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 1 Fields:
Med Medical Informatics
Translation:Humans
Predicting COVID-19 county-level case number trend by combining demographic characteristics and social distancing policies. JAMIA Open. 2022 Oct; 5(3):ooac056. Li MM, Pham A, Kuo TT. PMID: 35855422; PMCID: PMC9278037.

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Generalizable prediction of COVID-19 mortality on worldwide patient data. JAMIA Open. 2022 Jul; 5(2):ooac036. Edelson M, Kuo TT. PMID: 35663116; PMCID: PMC9129227.

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NLM's sponsorship of research in biomedical informatics (1985-2016). Inf Serv Use. 2022; 42(1):61-70. Kuo TT, Ohno-Machado L. PMID: 35600120; PMCID: PMC9108565.

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CertificateChain: decentralized healthcare training certificate management system using blockchain and smart contracts. JAMIA Open. 2022 Apr; 5(1):ooac019. Tellew J, Kuo TT. PMID: 35571362; PMCID: PMC9097703.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 6
Detecting model misconducts in decentralized healthcare federated learning. Int J Med Inform. 2021 Dec 09; 158:104658. Kuo TT, Pham A. PMID: 34923447; PMCID: PMC10017272.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 4 Fields:
Med Medical Informatics
Previewable Contract-Based On-Chain X-Ray Image Sharing Framework for Clinical Research. Int J Med Inform. 2021 12; 156:104599. Li MM, Kuo TT. PMID: 34628257; PMCID: PMC8479449.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 5 Fields:
Med Medical Informatics
Translation:Humans
Benchmarking blockchain-based gene-drug interaction data sharing methods: A case study from the iDASH 2019 secure genome analysis competition blockchain track. Int J Med Inform. 2021 10; 154:104559. Kuo TT, Bath T, Ma S, Pattengale N, Yang M, Cao Y, Hudson CM, Kim J, Post K, Xiong L, Ohno-Machado L. PMID: 34474309; PMCID: PMC9933142.

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Med Medical Informatics
Translation:Humans
Privacy-protecting, reliable response data discovery using COVID-19 patient observations. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2021 07 30; 28(8):1765-1776. Kim J, Neumann L, Paul P, Day ME, Aratow M, Bell DS, Doctor JN, Hinske LC, Jiang X, Kim KK, Matheny ME, Meeker D, Pletcher MJ, Schilling LM, SooHoo S, Xu H, Zheng K, Ohno-Machado L, R2D2 Consortium. PMID: 34051088; PMCID: PMC8194878.

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Med Medical Informatics
Translation:Humans
Hypertension prevalence in the All of Us Research Program among groups traditionally underrepresented in medical research. Sci Rep. 2021 06 22; 11(1):12849. Chandler PD, Clark CR, Zhou G, Noel NL, Achilike C, Mendez L, Ramirez AH, Loperena-Cortes R, Mayo K, Cohn E, Ohno-Machado L, Boerwinkle E, Cicek M, Qian J, Schully S, Ratsimbazafy F, Mockrin S, Gebo K, Dedier JJ, Murphy SN, Smoller JW, Karlson EW, All of Us Research Program Investigators. PMID: 34158555; PMCID: PMC8219813.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 4 Fields:
Sci Science
Translation:Humans
Predictive Analytics for Glaucoma Using Data From the All of Us Research Program. Am J Ophthalmol. 2021 07; 227:74-86. Baxter SL, Saseendrakumar BR, Paul P, Kim J, Bonomi L, Kuo TT, Loperena R, Ratsimbazafy F, Boerwinkle E, Cicek M, Clark CR, Cohn E, Gebo K, Mayo K, Mockrin S, Schully SD, Ramirez A, Ohno-Machado L, All of Us Research Program Investigators. PMID: 33497675; PMCID: PMC8184631.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 22 Fields:
Oph Ophthalmology
Translation:Humans
iDASH secure genome analysis competition 2018: blockchain genomic data access logging, homomorphic encryption on GWAS, and DNA segment searching. BMC Med Genomics. 2020 07 21; 13(Suppl 7):98. Kuo TT, Jiang X, Tang H, Wang X, Bath T, Bu D, Wang L, Harmanci A, Zhang S, Zhi D, Sofia HJ, Ohno-Machado L. PMID: 32693816; PMCID: PMC7372776.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 14 Fields:
Gen Genetics
Translation:Humans
The anatomy of a distributed predictive modeling framework: online learning, blockchain network, and consensus algorithm. JAMIA Open. 2020 Jul; 3(2):201-208. Kuo TT. PMID: 32734160; PMCID: PMC7382618.

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EXpectation Propagation LOgistic REgRession on permissioned blockCHAIN (ExplorerChain): decentralized online healthcare/genomics predictive model learning. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2020 05 01; 27(5):747-756. Kuo TT, Gabriel RA, Cidambi KR, Ohno-Machado L. PMID: 32364235; PMCID: PMC7309256.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 22 Fields:
Med Medical Informatics
Translation:Humans
Comparison of Smart Contract Blockchains for Healthcare Applications. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2019; 2019:1266-1275. Yu H, Sun H, Wu D, Kuo TT. PMID: 32308924; PMCID: PMC7153130.

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Med Medical Informatics
Translation:Humans
Privacy-preserving model learning on a blockchain network-of-networks. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2020 03 01; 27(3):343-354. Kuo TT, Kim J, Gabriel RA. PMID: 31943009; PMCID: PMC7025358.

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Med Medical Informatics
Machine Learning-Based Predictive Modeling of Surgical Intervention in Glaucoma Using Systemic Data From Electronic Health Records. Am J Ophthalmol. 2019 12; 208:30-40. Baxter SL, Marks C, Kuo TT, Ohno-Machado L, Weinreb RN. PMID: 31323204; PMCID: PMC6888922.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 27 Fields:
Oph Ophthalmology
Translation:Humans
Fair compute loads enabled by blockchain: sharing models by alternating client and server roles. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2019 05 01; 26(5):392-403. Kuo TT, Gabriel RA, Ohno-Machado L. PMID: 30892656; PMCID: PMC7787356.

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Med Medical Informatics
Translation:Humans
Comparison of blockchain platforms: a systematic review and healthcare examples. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2019 05 01; 26(5):462-478. Kuo TT, Zavaleta Rojas H, Ohno-Machado L. PMID: 30907419; PMCID: PMC7787359.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 45 Fields:
Med Medical Informatics
'Fit-for-purpose?' - challenges and opportunities for applications of blockchain technology in the future of healthcare. BMC Med. 2019 03 27; 17(1):68. Mackey TK, Kuo TT, Gummadi B, Clauson KA, Church G, Grishin D, Obbad K, Barkovich R, Palombini M. PMID: 30914045; PMCID: PMC6436239.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 50 Fields:
Med Medicine (General)
Translation:Humans
Identifying and characterizing highly similar notes in big clinical note datasets. J Biomed Inform. 2018 06; 82:63-69. Gabriel RA, Kuo TT, McAuley J, Hsu CN. PMID: 29679685.

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Med Medical Informatics
Translation:Humans
Blockchain distributed ledger technologies for biomedical and health care applications. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2017 Nov 01; 24(6):1211-1220. Kuo TT, Kim HE, Ohno-Machado L. PMID: 29016974; PMCID: PMC6080687.

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Med Medical Informatics
Ensembles of NLP Tools for Data Element Extraction from Clinical Notes. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2016; 2016:1880-1889. Kuo TT, Rao P, Maehara C, Doan S, Chaparro JD, Day ME, Farcas C, Ohno-Machado L, Hsu CN. PMID: 28269947; PMCID: PMC5333200.

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Med Medical Informatics
Translation:Humans
Finding Related Publications: Extending the Set of Terms Used to Assess Article Similarity. AMIA Jt Summits Transl Sci Proc. 2016; 2016:225-34. Wei W, Marmor R, Singh S, Wang S, Demner-Fushman D, Kuo TT, Hsu CN, Ohno-Machado L. PMID: 27570676; PMCID: PMC5001748.

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Weakly supervised learning of biomedical information extraction from curated data. BMC Bioinformatics. 2016 Jan 11; 17 Suppl 1:1. Jain S, Tumkur KR, Kuo TT, Bhargava S, Lin G, Hsu CN. PMID: 26817711; PMCID: PMC4847485.

View in: PubMed Mentions: 3 Fields:
Com Computational Biology
Translation:Humans