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Dr Juan Quiroz Aguilera
Research Fellow

Dr Juan Quiroz Aguilera

University of Nevada, Reno

Computer Science and Engineering

PhD (2010)

University of Nevada, Reno

Computer Science

MS (2007)

University of Nevada, Reno

Mathematics and Computer Science

BS (2005)
Medicine & Health
Centre for Big Data Research in Health

Juan Quiroz is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Big Data Research in Health (CBDRH) at UNSW Australia. His research focuses on causal inference of observational data, machine learning for health applications, and leveraging machine learning for mental health applications.
Location
Level 2 AGSM Building (G27) Gate 11 Botany St Kensington Campus UNSW Australia 2052
  • Book Chapters | 2013
    Banerjee A; Quiroz JC; Louis SJ, 2013, 'A Computational Model of Collaborative Creativity', in Multidisciplinary Studies in Knowledge and Systems Science, IGI Global, pp. 132 - 152, http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3998-0.ch010
    Book Chapters | 2013
    Banerjee A; Quiroz JC; Louis SJ, 2013, 'A computational model of collaborative creativity: A meta-design approach', in Multidisciplinary Studies in Knowledge and Systems Science, pp. 132 - 152, http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-3998-0.ch010
  • Journal articles | 2023
    Liu W; Laranjo L; Klimis H; Chiang J; Yue J; Marschner S; Quiroz JC; Jorm L; Chow CK, 2023, 'Machine-learning versus traditional approaches for atherosclerotic cardiovascular risk prognostication in primary prevention cohorts: a systematic review and meta-analysis', European Heart Journal - Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes, 9, pp. 310 - 322, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehjqcco/qcad017
    Journal articles | 2022
    Hwang H; Quiroz JC; Gallego B, 2022, 'Assessing the effectiveness of empirical calibration under different bias scenarios', BMC Medical Research Methodology, 22, pp. 208, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-022-01687-6
    Journal articles | 2022
    Kusuma K; Larsen M; Quiroz JC; Gillies M; Burnett A; Qian J; Torok M, 2022, 'The performance of machine learning models in predicting suicidal ideation, attempts, and deaths: A meta-analysis and systematic review', Journal of Psychiatric Research, 155, pp. 579 - 588, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2022.09.050
    Journal articles | 2022
    Quiroz JC; Brieger D; Jorm LR; Sy RW; Falster MO; Gallego B, 2022, 'An Observational Study of Clinical and Health System Factors Associated With Catheter Ablation and Early Ablation Treatment for Atrial Fibrillation in Australia', Heart Lung and Circulation, 31, pp. 1269 - 1276, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hlc.2022.04.049
    Journal articles | 2022
    Quiroz JC; Chard T; Sa Z; Ritchie A; Jorm L; Gallego B, 2022, 'Extract, transform, load framework for the conversion of health databases to OMOP', PLoS ONE, 17, pp. e0266911, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266911
    Journal articles | 2022
    Rezazadegan D; Berkovsky S; Quiroz JC; Kocaballi AB; Wang Y; Laranjo L; Coiera E, 2022, 'Symbolic and Statistical Learning Approaches to Speech Summarization: A Scoping Review', Computer Speech and Language, 72, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.csl.2021.101305
    Journal articles | 2022
    Tong HL; Quiroz JC; Kocaballi AB; Ijaz K; Coiera E; Chow CK; Laranjo L, 2022, 'A personalized mobile app for physical activity: An experimental mixed-methods study', Digital Health, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20552076221115017
    Journal articles | 2021
    Feng YZ; Liu S; Cheng ZY; Quiroz JC; Rezazadegan D; Chen PK; Lin QT; Qian L; Liu XF; Berkovsky S; Coiera E; Song L; Qiu XM; Cai XR, 2021, 'Severity assessment and progression prediction of COVID-19 patients based on the lesionencoder framework and chest CT', Information (Switzerland), 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/info12110471
    Journal articles | 2021
    Laranjo L; DIng D; Heleno B; Kocaballi B; Quiroz JC; Tong HL; Chahwan B; Neves AL; Gabarron E; Dao KP; Rodrigues D; Neves GC; Antunes ML; Coiera E; Bates DW, 2021, 'Do smartphone applications and activity trackers increase physical activity in adults? Systematic review, meta-analysis and metaregression', British Journal of Sports Medicine, 55, pp. 422 - 432, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2020-102892
    Journal articles | 2021
    Quiroz J; Brieger D; Jorm L; Sy R; Falster M; Gallego Luxan B, 2021, 'An observational study of clinical and health system factors associated with catheter ablation and early ablation treatment for atrial fibrillation in Australia', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.03.21263104
    Journal articles | 2021
    Quiroz JC; Feng YZ; Cheng ZY; Rezazadegan D; Chen PK; Lin QT; Qian L; Liu XF; Berkovsky S; Coiera E; Song L; Qiu X; Liu S; Cai XR, 2021, 'Development and validation of a machine learning approach for automated severity assessment of COVID-19 based on clinical and imaging data: Retrospective study', JMIR Medical Informatics, 9, pp. e24572, http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/24572
    Journal articles | 2021
    Quiroz JC; Laranjo L; Tufanaru C; Kocaballi AB; Rezazadegan D; Berkovsky S; Coiera E, 2021, 'Empirical analysis of Zipf's law, power law, and lognormal distributions in medical discharge reports', International Journal of Medical Informatics, 145, pp. 104324, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2020.104324
    Journal articles | 2021
    Tong HL; Quiroz JC; Kocaballi AB; Fat SCM; Dao KP; Gehringer H; Chow CK; Laranjo L, 2021, 'Personalized mobile technologies for lifestyle behavior change: A systematic review, meta-analysis, and meta-regression', Preventive Medicine, 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2021.106532
    Journal articles | 2020
    Baki Kocaballi A; Ijaz K; Laranjo L; Quiroz JC; Rezazadegan D; Tong HL; Willcock S; Berkovsky S; Coiera E, 2020, 'Envisioning an artificial intelligence documentation assistant for future primary care consultations: A co-design study with general practitioners', Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 27, pp. 1695 - 1704, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocaa131
    Journal articles | 2020
    Kocaballi AB; Quiroz JC; Rezazadegan D; Berkovsky S; Magrabi F; Coiera E; Laranjo L, 2020, 'Responses of conversational agents to health and lifestyle prompts: Investigation of appropriateness and presentation structures', Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/15823
    Journal articles | 2020
    Laranjo L; Quiroz JC; Tong HL; Bazalar MA; Coiera E, 2020, 'A mobile social networking app for weight management and physical activity promotion: Results from an experimental mixed methods study', Journal of Medical Internet Research, 22, pp. e19991, http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/19991
    Journal articles | 2020
    Quiroz JC; Bongolan T; Ijaz K, 2020, 'Alexa depression and anxiety self-tests: A preliminary analysis of user experience and trust', UbiComp/ISWC 2020 Adjunct - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, pp. 494 - 496, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3410530.3414374
    Journal articles | 2020
    Quiroz JC; Laranjo L; Kocaballi AB; Briatore A; Berkovsky S; Rezazadegan D; Coiera E, 2020, 'Identifying relevant information in medical conversations to summarize a clinician-patient encounter', Health Informatics Journal, 26, pp. 2906 - 2914, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1460458220951719
    Journal articles | 2019
    Kocaballi AB; Berkovsky S; Quiroz JC; Laranjo L; Tong HL; Rezazadegan D; Briatore A; Coiera E, 2019, 'The personalization of conversational agents in health care: Systematic review', Journal of Medical Internet Research, 21, http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/15360
    Journal articles | 2019
    Kocaballi AB; Coiera E; Tong HL; White SJ; Quiroz JC; Rezazadegan F; Willcock S; Laranjo L, 2019, 'A network model of activities in primary care consultations', Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 26, pp. 1074 - 1082, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocz046
    Journal articles | 2019
    Quiroz JC; Laranjo L; Kocaballi AB; Berkovsky S; Rezazadegan D; Coiera E, 2019, 'Challenges of developing a digital scribe to reduce clinical documentation burden', npj Digital Medicine, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41746-019-0190-1
    Journal articles | 2019
    Tong HL; Coiera E; Tong W; Wang Y; Quiroz JC; Martin P; Laranjo L, 2019, 'Efficacy of a mobile social networking intervention in promoting physical activity: Quasi-experimental study', JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/12181
    Journal articles | 2018
    Quiroz JC; Banerjee A; Dascalu SM; Lau SL, 2018, 'Feature Selection for Activity Recognition from Smartphone Accelerometer Data', Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, 24, pp. 1 - 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10798587.2017.1342400
    Journal articles | 2018
    Quiroz JC; Geangu E; Yong MH, 2018, 'Emotion recognition using smart watch sensor data: Mixed-design study', JMIR Mental Health, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/10153
    Journal articles | 2018
    Quiroz JC; Mariun N; Mehrjou MR; Izadi M; Misron N; Mohd Radzi MA, 2018, 'Fault detection of broken rotor bar in LS-PMSM using random forests', Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation, 116, pp. 273 - 280, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.measurement.2017.11.004
    Journal articles | 2017
    Quiroz JC; Dascalu SM, 2017, 'Interactive Shape Perturbation', IJCA, 24, pp. 1, http://arxiv.org/abs/1706.04077v1
    Journal articles | 2017
    Quiroz JC; Dascalu SM, 2017, 'Interactive shape perturbation', International Journal of Computers and their Applications, 24, pp. 4 - 11
    Journal articles | 2016
    Banerjee A; Quiroz JC; Abu-Mahfouz I, 2016, 'Statistical comparison of feature sets for time series classification of dynamic system response', ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part B: Mechanical Engineering, 2, http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.4033542
    Journal articles | 2016
    Lee MY; Iranmanesh V; Quiroz JC, 2016, 'A New Approach to SMS Steganography using Mathematical Equations', , http://arxiv.org/abs/1607.07947v1
    Journal articles | 2015
    Quiroz JC; Banerjee A; Louis SJ; Dascalu SM, 2015, 'Collaborative Evolution of 3D Models', Quiroz J.C., Banerjee A., Louis S.J., Dascalu S.M. (2015) Collaborative Evolution of 3D Models. In: Gero J., Hanna S. (eds) Design Computing and Cognition '14. Springer, Cham, pp. 493 - 510, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14956-1_28
    Journal articles | 2011
    Banerjee A; Quiroz JC; Louis SJ, 2011, 'A Computational Model of Collaborative Creativity: A Meta-Design Approach', INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF KNOWLEDGE AND SYSTEMS SCIENCE, 2, pp. 68 - 87, http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jkss.2011040105
    Journal articles | 2009
    Quiroz JC; Banerjee A; Louis SJ; Dascalu SM, 2009, 'Document design with interactive evolution', Studies in Computational Intelligence, 226, pp. 309 - 319, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02937-0_28
    Journal articles | 2007
    Nicolescu M; Leigh R; Olenderski A; Louis S; Dascalu S; Miles C; Quiroz J; Aleson R, 2007, 'A training simulation system with realistic autonomous ship control', Computational Intelligence, 23, pp. 497 - 516, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8640.2007.00318.x
    Journal articles | 1998
    Quiroz JC, 1998, 'Mexican political groups and the impact of the Spanish American War', CUADERNOS HISPANOAMERICANOS, pp. 59 - 72, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000075523700004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
  • Preprints | 2022
    Quiroz JC; Brieger D; Jorm L; Sy RW; Hsu B; Gallego B, 2022, Predicting adverse outcomes following catheter ablation treatment for atrial fibrillation, , http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11965v2
    Preprints | 2021
    Hwang H; Quiroz JC; Gallego B, 2021, Assessing The Effectiveness of Empirical Calibration Under Different Bias Scenarios, , http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-1058822/v1
    Preprints | 2021
    Quiroz J; Chard T; Sa Z; Ritchie A; Jorm L; Gallego B, 2021, Extract, Transform, Load Framework for the Conversion of Health Databases to OMOP, , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.08.21255178
    Conference Papers | 2021
    Tong HL; Quiroz JC; Laranjo L, 2021, 'IMPACT OF COVID-19 ON YOUNG ADULTS' PHYSICAL ACTIVITY: WHAT IS THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGIES?', in ANNALS OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE, OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, pp. S271 - S271, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000648922700548&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Preprints | 2020
    Feng Y-Z; Liu S; Cheng Z-Y; Quiroz J; Rezazadegan D; Chen P-K; Lin Q-T; Qian L; Liu X-F; Berkovsky S; Coiera E; Song L; Qiu X-M; Cai X-R, 2020, Severity Assessment and Progression Prediction of COVID-19 Patients based on the LesionEncoder Framework and Chest CT, , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.03.20167007
    Conference Papers | 2020
    Kocaballi AB; Quiroz JC; Laranjo L; Rezazadegan D; Kocielnik R; Clark L; Liao QV; Park SY; Moore RJ; Miner A, 2020, 'Conversational agents for health and wellbeing', in Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, ACM, presented at CHI '20: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3375154
    Preprints | 2020
    Quiroz J; Feng Y-Z; Cheng Z-Y; Rezazadegan D; Chen P-K; Lin Q-T; Qian L; Liu X-F; Berkovsky S; Coiera E; Song L; Qiu X-M; Liu S; Cai X-R, 2020, Severity Assessment of COVID-19 based on Clinical and Imaging Data, , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.08.12.20173872
    Conference Papers | 2018
    Walton A; Quiroz J; Michael R; Crosby L; Kiefer A; Chemero A; Murphy S, 2018, 'MULTI-SCALED MEASURES OF PAIN EXPERIENCE IN YOUNG ADULTS WITH SICKLE CELL DISEASE', in ANNALS OF BEHAVIORAL MEDICINE, OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC, pp. S332 - S332, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000431185201027&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Conference Papers | 2017
    Quiroz JC; Yong MH; Geangu E, 2017, 'Emotion-recognition using smart watch accelerometer data: Preliminary findings', in UbiComp/ISWC 2017 - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, pp. 805 - 812, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3123024.3125614
    Conference Papers | 2016
    Quiroz JC; Dascalu SM, 2016, 'Design and implementation of a procedural content generation web application for vertex shaders', in 25th International Conference on Software Engineering and Data Engineering, SEDE 2016, pp. 97 - 102
    Conference Papers | 2015
    Banerjee A; Quiroz JC; Abu-Mahfouz I, 2015, 'Statistical Comparison of Feature Sets for Time Series Classification of Dynamical System Response', in Volume 4B: Dynamics, Vibration, and Control, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, presented at ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, 13 November 2015 - 19 November 2015, http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2015-51455
    Conference Papers | 2015
    Banerjee A; Quiroz JC; Abu-Mahfouz I, 2015, 'Statistical comparision of feature sets for time series classification of dynamical system response', in ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE), http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/IMECE201551455
    Conference Papers | 2015
    Chan AT; Quiroz JC; Dascalu S; Harris FC, 2015, 'An overview of brain computer interfaces', in Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications, CATA 2015, pp. 327 - 333
    Conference Papers | 2012
    Quiroz JC; Banerjee A; Louis SJ, 2012, '3-D modeling using collaborative evolution', in GECCO'12 - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Companion, pp. 653 - 654, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2330784.2330905
    Conference Papers | 2009
    Quiroz JC; Louis SJ; Banerjee A; Dascalu SM, 2009, 'Towards creative design using collaborative interactive genetic algorithms', in 2009 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2009, pp. 1849 - 1856, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2009.4983166
    Conference Papers | 2008
    Banerjee A; Quiroz JC; Louis SJ, 2008, 'A model of creative design using collaborative interactive genetic algorithms', in Design Computing and Cognition '08 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition, pp. 397 - 416, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8728-8_21
    Conference Papers | 2008
    Quiroz JC; Banerjee A; Louis SJ, 2008, 'IGAP', in Proceedings of the 10th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, ACM, presented at GECCO08: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 12 July 2008 - 16 July 2008, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1389095.1389426
    Conference Papers | 2008
    Quiroz JC; Banerjee A; Louis SJ, 2008, 'IGAP: Interactive genetic algorithm peer to peer', in GECCO'08: Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation 2008, pp. 1719 - 1720
    Conference Papers | 2007
    McMahon MJ; Dascalu SM; Harris FC; Quiroz J, 2007, 'An extensible architecture for network-attached device management', in 2nd International Conference on Software Engineering Advances - ICSEA 2007, pp. 66 - 71, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSEA.2007.87
    Conference Papers | 2007
    Miles C; Quiroz J; Leigh R; Louis SJ, 2007, 'Co-evolving influence map tree based strategy game players', in Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, CIG 2007, pp. 88 - 95, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CIG.2007.368083
    Conference Papers | 2007
    Quiroz J; Shankar A; Dascalu SM; Louis SJ, 2007, 'Software environment for research on evolving user interface designs', in 2nd International Conference on Software Engineering Advances - ICSEA 2007, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSEA.2007.62
    Conference Papers | 2007
    Quiroz JC; Dascalu SM; Louis SJ, 2007, 'Human guided evolution of XUL user interfaces', in Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, pp. 2621 - 2626, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1241052
    Conference Papers | 2007
    Quiroz JC; Louis SJ; Dascalu SM, 2007, 'Interactive evolution of XUL user interfaces', in Proceedings of GECCO 2007: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, pp. 2151 - 2158, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1276958.1277373
    Conference Papers | 2007
    Quiroz JC; Louis SJ; Shankar A; Dascalu SM, 2007, 'Interactive genetic algorithms for user interface design', in 2007 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2007, pp. 1366 - 1373, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CEC.2007.4424630
    Conference Papers | 2007
    Shankar A; Quiroz J; Dascalu SM; Louis SJ; Nicolescu MN, 2007, 'Sycophant: An API for research in context-aware user interfaces', in 2nd International Conference on Software Engineering Advances - ICSEA 2007, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSEA.2007.67
    Conference Papers | 2005
    Harris FC; Penick MA; Kelly GM; Quiroz JC; Dascalu SM; Westphal BT, 2005, 'V-FIRE: Virtual fire in realistic environments', in Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice, SERP'05, pp. 73 - 79