Joyce C Ho

Winship Distinguished Research Professor.
Associate Professor, CS@Emory University.
Director of Graduate Studies, CS MS Program.

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400 Dowman Dr

Atlanta, GA 30322

(404)-727-5605

I am an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Emory University. I have a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MA and BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. I previously co-founded a successful healthcare analytics company (Accordion Health) and worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

My research focuses on the development of novel data mining and machine learning algorithms to address problems in healthcare. Recent projects include identifying patient subgroups or phenotypes, integration of new streams of data, fusing different modalities of data (e.g., structured medical codes and unstructured text), and dealing with conflicting expert annotations.

My group is currently quite large, so I’m not actively recruiting new students this year. Visit my group page for the latest on openings and how to reach out.

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news

Jul 11, 2026 NSF funds a collaborative project with Xiao Feng and Adam Smith on “Biodiversity On Demand (BOND): A Web Platform for Discovering, Comparing, and Integrating Biodiversity Databases”.
Feb 10, 2026 Congratulations to Ran Xu for successfully defending her PhD dissertation!
Aug 12, 2025 NIH funds a joint project with Sharon Sonenblum (School of Nursing) on Pragmatic and automated pressure injury detection across a heterogeneous patient population.
May 12, 2025 Congratulations to Alex Belov, Dani Roytburg, and Yella Diekmann for graduating with highest honors.
Aug 01, 2024 Thrilled to be named to the inaugural FDA Digital Health Adivsory Committee.

selected publications

  1. Reasoning Traces Shape Outputs but Models Won’t Say So
    Yijie Hao, Lingjie Chen, Ali Emami, and Joyce C Ho
    In Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 2026
  2. Beyond Composite Indices: Comprehensive Social Determinants Improve Heart Failure Readmission Prediction
    Chase Fensore, Aniruddha Deshpande, Rodrigo M. Carrillo‐Larco, Shivani A. Patel, and Joyce C Ho
    Journal of the American Heart Association, 2026
  3. Beyond Random Splitting: Evaluating the Impact of Data Partitioning Strategies on Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Prediction Using EHRs
    Miriam Asare-Baiden, Wenhui Zhang, Vicki Stover Hertzberg, and Joyce C Ho
    In AMIA Annual Symposium Proceedings, 2025
  4. TransFed: cross-domain feature alignment for semi-supervised federated transfer learning
    Linghui Zeng, Ruixuan Liu, Li Xiong, and Joyce C Ho
    Machine Learning, 2025
  5. Best Paper
    Counterfactual and factual reasoning over hypergraphs for interpretable clinical predictions on EHR
    Ran Xu, Yue Yu, Chao Zhang, Mohammed K Ali, Joyce C Ho, and Carl Yang
    In Proceedings of the 2nd Machine Learning for Health symposium, 2022