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Catherine Blake is a professor in the School of Information Sciences and serves as the Health Innovation Professor at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). She holds a courtesy appointment in the Department of Computer Science and is affiliated with several initiatives including the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Informatics, and the Center for Health Informatics. Her research focuses on biomedical informatics, natural language processing, evidence-based discovery, learning health systems, socio-technical systems, data analytics, and literature-based discovery. Blake's extensive background includes industrial software development and over a decade of research experience in text mining and natural language processing, primarily within biomedicine. She has developed key methodologies for synthesizing evidence from texts and is involved in projects that explore automated methods to extract findings from empirical studies. Blake earned her master's and doctoral degrees in Information Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine, and has bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science from the University of Wollongong.
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