Dr. Oguz Akbilgic is a biomedical informaticist focusing on both methodology and healthcare applications of artificial intelligence and statistics. He earned his dotcoral degree from Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey in Quantitative Methods and carried out postdoctoral studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA and University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada. He worked at University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN and Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL as a biomedical informatics before joining Wake Forest School of Medicine. Currently, he is working at Wake Forest as an Associate Professor jointly at the Cardiology Section and Biomedical Informatics Center. He is also serving as an Associate Director for Epidemiological Cardiology Research Center (EPICARE). He has authored over 100 publications including two book chapters.