Bradley Malin, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of biomedical informatics at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. His primary research focus is on data privacy and management issues in biomedical research and clinical management systems. He is the author of numerous scientific articles on data privacy, fraud detection, and surveillance within various technologies, including text databases, biomedical databases, and face recognition systems. His research on the re-identification and privacy protection of patient-specific genomic database records has received several awards from the American Medical Informatics Association and International Medical Informatics Association. Brad holds a bachelor¹s in molecular biology, a master¹s in public policy and management, a master¹s in computer science ("data mining and knowledge discovery"), and a doctorate in computer science ("computation, organizations, and society") from Carnegie Mellon University.

Prior to joining Vanderbilt, he was a graduate researcher in the Data Privacy Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University.

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