Rameshbabu Manyam

Bio
Dr. Manyam's research focuses on data science, big data analytics, and risk models with cutting-edge machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and high-performance computing environments. Specific fields of interest include longitudinal electronic health records (EHR) data analytics using statistical and ML/AI algorithms (e.g., survival regression. decision trees, eXtreme Gradient Boosting, XGBoost, random survival forests, support vector machines, reinforcement learning, and neural networks).
Dr. Manyam is a trained computer scientist with over 20 years of experience in NIH-funded data-driven research projects, building custom databases, software applications, and data visualization portals. He has expertise in computationally efficient ML/AI approaches to time series analyses and risk prediction. He has hands-on experience with large-scale healthcare data sources, such as EPIC’s EHR, Emory clinical data warehouse, and national clinical and surgical databases.
Dr. Manyam's current research collaborative efforts include, but not limited to: 1) developing novel, scalable and portable ML/AI-powered risk models - via automated feature engineering, feature selection, ensemble learning and deep learning techniques - to accurately predict risk factors for outcomes such as, (a) suicidal ideation and behavior, b) primary care fragmentation in older adults, c) interhospital transfer among older adults, d) early mortality after interhospital transfer, e) maternal morbidly and mortality, f) mortality after surgery for femoral shaft fractures, g) perioperative blood transfusion in femoral shaft fracture patient cohort, h) hospital readmission after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), and i) failure-to-rescue after CABG.
Recent honors and awards
- 2025: Provost's Distinguished Teaching Award for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Education, Emory Univeristy
- 2024: 1st place Mike Kutner Faculty Poster Award Winner and Travel Award Recipient at the Southern Regional Council on Statistics (SRCOS) Summer Research Conference
- 2023: Dean's Pilot Innovation Award, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University
- 2022: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Faculty Mentor Award, Emory University
- 2021: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Distinguished Teaching Award, Emory University
- 2020: Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Dept.of Computer Science, Georgia State Univeristy
- 2019: Three Minute Thesis (3MT) event second place winner, Georgia State University
Areas of Interest
- Bioinformatics
- Maternal and Child Health
- Risk Assessment
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Analytics
- Health Informatics
- Health Services Research
- High Performance Computing
- Modeling
- Data Science
- Survival Analysis
- Longitudinal Analysis
- Machine Learning
- Data Mining
- Artificial Intelligence
Education
- PhD, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
- MS, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
- MTech, Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
- BTech, National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India
Affiliations
- Member, IEEE Computer Society
- Member, Eastern North American Region International Biometric Society
- Member, Society of Thoracic Surgeons Association
- Organizing Committee Member, 2024 Georgia Statistics Day, Emory University
- Publicity Co-chair, 2025 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine
- Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine
- Faculty Advisor, Emory Humphrey Fellowship Program, Emory University