AZBio Board of Directors

Vignesh Subbian, PhD

interim director

BIO5 Institute, The University of Arizona

Associate Professor of Systems and Industrial Engineering

Associate Director of Biomedical Informatics and Biostatistics (CB2)

Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Associate Professor of the BIO5 Institute

Associate Professor of Statistics – Graduate Interdisciplinary Program

Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics – Graduate Interdisciplinary Program

Associate Professor of Clinical Translational Sciences

Associate Professor of Medicine

Member of the Graduate Faculty

 

Vignesh Subbian was named  interim director of the BIO5 Institute, effective May 12, 2025. An associate professor of biomedical engineering and a BIO5 member, Subbian is a health systems scientist who routinely navigates the human-technology frontier in biomedicine. He brings interdisciplinary expertise in biomedical engineering, informatics, and systems science to the role. 

Vignesh Subbian works at the nexus of systems engineering, medicine, and informatics. As a health systems scientist and informatician, he studies clinical decision-making in the context of sociotechnical systems using both cognitive engineering and computational methods, with emphases on phenotyping, explainability, and health equity.

He is currently a joint associate professor of biomedical engineering, systems and industrial engineering, interim director of the BIO5 Institute, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Center for University Education Scholarship (CUES) at the University of Arizona.

His leadership experience and passion for education and mentoring align with BIO5’s mission of fostering collaborative, translational research across disciplines as well as engaging with and training the next generation of scientists.

In his role as associate director for the Center for Biomedical Informatics & Biostatistics, he leads informatics service cores for multiple, large-scale NIH initiatives in Arizona including the All of Us Research Program and the Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) Initiative. He is also the program director for two training programs: (1) Place-based Health Informatics Research Education (PHIRE; “fire”) program, a National Library of Medicine (NLM) initiative for undergraduate research training and (2) eCAMINOS (engineering pathways) program, supported by the National Science Foundation. His educational research as a part of these training programs is focused on asset-based practices, ethics education, and formation of professional identities.

Degrees

PhD Computer Science and Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

MS Electrical Engineering, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama, United States