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Maulik Kamdar PhD is the Director of Clinical Informatics at Optum Health.
His research interests include biomedical informatics, semantic web technologies, information retrieval, AI/ML/NLP, graph analytics, visualization, and operationalized data science. Through previous roles at Kaiser Permanente, Elsevier Health, Stanford University, NUI Galway, and Reactome Consortium, Maulik has worked to develop novel data science methods, enterprise knowledge graphs, and features within Web-based applications that have 10K+ users, such as KPOrg Digital Platform, Elsevier’s ClinicalKey Search, WebProtégé, Data.Gov.IE and the Reactome.Org Pathway Browser. Through previous roles at KP and Elsevier Health, Maulik has led industry-academic collaborations with Stanford University, University of Amsterdam, VU Amsterdam, University of Southern California, and Georgia Institute of Technology.
Maulik has a PhD in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford University, and his dissertation research was awarded the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) 2020 Dissertation Award. Maulik has widely collaborated with researchers from several institutes on interdisciplinary projects and has published more than 35 papers (including 5 best paper awards) in several venues. Maulik resides in the city of Atlanta with his wife and Golgappi, their Sheepadoodle, and they love exploring the US national parks, running long distances, and cooking new cuisines.
