OMSCS Faculty Showcase

Dr. Jon Duke is Director of the Health Emerging and Advanced Technologies Division at the Georgia Tech Research Institute and Principal Research Scientist in the Georgia Tech College of Computing. Dr. Duke has led over $47 million in funded research for industry, government, and foundation partners. His research focuses on advancing techniques for integrating, analyzing, and communicating complex health data with applications spanning research, quality, public health, and clinical domains. Dr. Duke was a founding member of the OHDSI consortium, an open-source international health data analytics collaborative now in over 70 countries.

Dr. Duke graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed his internal medicine residency at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He completed fellowship training in Medical Informatics at the Regenstrief Institute and holds a master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction from Indiana University.

In addition to over 50 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Duke’s work has been featured in the lay media ranging from the New York Times to Consumer Reports.

Theodore (TJ) LaGrow is a Lecturer at Georgia Tech in the FlexStack Program within the Professional Education Department, where he’s been teaching and building learning experiences for the better part of the last decade.

He teaches graduate machine learning, including serving as the course instructor for OMSCS CS 7641: Machine Learning. He holds a PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering and an MBA from Georgia Tech, and his research spans computational neuroscience, signal processing, and brain network dynamics.

Originally from Portland, Oregon, he completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Oregon, studying Math, Computer & Information Sciences, Physics, and Theater. He has also co-founded a medical imaging startup and is an inventor on a patent for diagnosable image capture and storage.