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Anthony Rios

Natural Language Processing (NLP) Biomedical Informatics Health Informatics Ethical Data Use Machine Learning For Social Applications
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) College of AI, Cyber and Computing

About

Anthony Rios, Associate Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Cybersecurity, serves as the Founding Director of the Center for Data Science. A recipient of the prestigious NSF CAREER Award, Dr. Rios brings nationally recognized expertise in artificial intelligence, health informatics, natural language processing, and ethical data use. His interdisciplinary leadership has helped establish key partnerships and student-focused initiatives that connect research to real-world applications. Dr. Anthony Rios is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Cyber Security at The University of Texas at San Antonio. Dr. Rios received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky in 2018 and his BS in Computer Science from Georgetown College in 2011. His broad multidisciplinary research interests include biomedical and social applications involving machine learning and natural language processing (NLP). He has published numerous refereed technical papers in prestigious venues in NLP and biomedical informatics, including EMNLP, NAACL, AMIA, JAMIA, and Bioinformatics. Dr. Rios also received a distinguished poster finalist award at AMIA 2014 and a best paper finalist award in the best technical paper category at ICHI 2015

Research Performance Summary

67
Total Papers
1531
Total Citations
17
H-Index
2013-2026
Active Research Span

First Recorded Paper

Supervised extraction of diagnosis codes from EMRs: role of feature selection, data selection, and probabilistic thresholding

Year: 2013

Citations: 23

Venue: IEEE ICHI

Latest Recorded Paper

Prompting Underestimates LLM Capability for Time Series Classification

Year: 2026

Citations: 0

Venue: arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.03464

Last 10 Years Publication Activity

This timeline shows the professor's yearly publication activity.

2026
2
2025
16
2024
12
2023
4
2022
5
2021
4
2020
3
2019
4
2018
7
2017
4
2015
4

Publication Venues and Collaboration

Journal, Conference, and Book Publication Breakdown

Conference 18
Journal 6
Book 1

Top Coauthors

Rios Kavuluru Zhao

Research Impact by Period

2025-2026

Period Stats
Papers 18
Citations 28
Avg. Citations / Paper 1.6
H-Index 4

2020-2024

Period Stats
Papers 28
Citations 251
Avg. Citations / Paper 9
H-Index 9

2015-2019

Period Stats
Papers 19
Citations 1227
Avg. Citations / Paper 64.6
H-Index 12

2010-2014

Period Stats
Papers 2
Citations 25
Avg. Citations / Paper 12.5
H-Index 2

Contact and Professional Links

Contact Information

anthony.rios@utsa.edu
2104586300

Detected Research Keywords

Convolutional Neural Networks Assigning Diagnosis Codes Electronic Medical Records Text Classification Application Indexing Biomedical Articles Recurrent Neural Networks Diagnosis Codes Emrs Offensive Language Classifiers Label Text Classification Utsa Nlp Semeval