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Joseph Daniel Romano, PhD, MPhil, MA

Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Department: Biostatistics and Epidemiology
Graduate Group Affiliations

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403 Blockley Hall
423 Guardian Drive
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-573-5571
Education:
B.S. (Molecular Genetics)
University of Vermont, 2014.
M.A. (Biomedical Informatics)
Columbia University, 2016.
MPhil (Biomedical Informatics)
Columbia University, 2018.
PhD (Biomedical Informatics)
Columbia University, 2019.
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Selected Publications

Romano JD: Ista: An Ontology-Driven Toolkit for Biomedical Knowledge Base Assembly. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics May 2025 Notes: Accepted; in-press.

Donnelly HK, Ashcraft LE, Romano JD, Daniels S, and Mowery D: Using Topic Modeling to Understand Implementation Science in the Biomedical Literature. AMIA 2025 Informatics Summit March 2025.

Nguyen TA & Romano JD: Uterine Leiomyoma Prediction using Geometric Deep Learning and Freely Available Electronic Health Record Data. AMIA 2025 Informatics Summit March 2025.

Pan IT, & Romano JD: Enhancing Molecular Representation Learning through the Combination of 3D and 2D Graph Machine Learning. The 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence 39, February 2025 Notes: (accepted; in press).

Kumar R, Romano JD, & Ritchie MD: CASTER-DTA: Equivariant Graph Neural Networks for Predicting Drug-Target Affinity. bioRxiv Nov 2024 Notes: (bioRxiv preprint ahead of publication).

Li R, Romano JD, Chen Y, & Moore JH: Centralized and Federated Models for the Analysis of Clinical Data. Annual Review of Biomedical Data Science 7: 179-199, August 2024.

Albi G, Dagliati A, Vavassori C, Pisani L, Bellazzi R, Romano JD, & Colombo GI: Classification of Coronary Artery Disease Severity by Combining Clinical and Gene Expression Variables. 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 22, July 2024.

Romano JD, Truong V, Kumar R, Venkatesan M, Graham BE, Hao Y, Matsumoto N, Li X, Wang Z, Ritchie M, Shen L, & Moore JH: The Alzheimer's Knowledge Base: A Knowledge Graph for Alzheimer Disease Research. Journal of Medical Internet Research 26: e46777, April 2024.

Paris CF, Morales E, & Romano JD: Knowledge-driven artificial intelligence enables mechanistic computational toxicology. NIEHS Environmental Health Sciences Core Centers Annual Meeting October 2023.

Hao Y, Romano JD, & Moore JH: Knowledge Graph Aids Comprehensive Explanation of Drug and Chemical Toxicity. CPT: Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology. Wiley, 12(8): 1072-1079, August 2023.

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