Paea LePendu is an accomplished academic and entrepreneur specializing in Biomedical Informatics within Computer Science. Currently serving as an Associate Professor of Teaching at the University of California, Riverside since July 2018, Paea has previously held roles including Assistant Professor of Teaching at the same institution. As a co-founder of Lexigram, Paea contributed to developing APIs for clinical natural language processing. Prior research roles have included affiliations with esteemed institutions such as the Mayo Clinic, Arizona State University, and Stanford University, focusing on data science applications in health systems and electronic health records. Paea's academic credentials include a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Oregon and a postdoctoral fellowship in Biomedical Informatics from Stanford University.