Lybarger Language Lab

Kevin Lybarger

Assistant Professor, Department of Information Sciences and Technology, George Mason University

Dr. Kevin Lybarger's research centers on artificial intelligence and natural language processing within healthcare applications: clinical informatics, health-oriented conversational agents, and public health. His broader research includes information integrity and correctional system informatics. He earned his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Washington, an MS from the University of Colorado Boulder, and a BS from Seattle University, and completed a National Library of Medicine Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

Invited Talks

  1. Advancing Patient-Centered Care Through Understanding & Engagement. Invited plenary, International Society for Quality of Life Research Annual Conference, October 2025.
  2. Extracting Social Determinants of Health: Annotation, Extraction, Information Gain, and Ethical Considerations. Biomedical Informatics & Data Science Grand Rounds, Johns Hopkins University Medicine, October 2024.
  3. Extracting Social Determinants of Health: Annotation, Extraction, Information Gain, and Ethical Considerations. Yale School of Public Health, Biostatistics Seminar, November 2023.
  4. Extracting Social Determinants of Health: Annotation, Extraction, Information Gain, and Ethical Considerations. Boston Children's Hospital Computational Health Informatics Program & Harvard Medical School, November 2023.
  5. Leveraging natural language processing to augment structured social determinants of health data in the electronic health record. JAMIA Journal Club, June 2023.
  6. Extracting Radiological Findings from Medical Imaging Reports. National Library of Medicine T15 Training Conference, June 2022.
  7. Identifying ARDS in Chest Radiograph Reports. National Library of Medicine T15 Training Conference, June 2021.
  8. Annotating Social Determinants of Health Using Active Learning, and Characterizing Determinants Using Neural Event Extraction. University of Washington Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology Seminar Series, November 2021.