Program Co-Chair

Dr. Yuji Zhang is Professor and Lead Bioinformatician at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She also serves as the Co-Chair of Informatics Working Group for the My Healthy Maryland Research Program (https://www.marylandprecisionhealth.org/en). Dr. Zhang’s primary research interest focuses on developing translational biostatistics and informatics approaches to reveal novel human disease mechanisms. She has over 20 years of research experience in integrative analysis of multi-source high-dimensional biological data, leading to over 80 peer-reviewed publications in renowned international journals. She has extensive collaborative research experience in medical informatics, ontology, software engineering, biomedical and basic science fields. Her research mission is to leverage the gap between the analytical needs arising from multi-source biological “big” data in biomedical research and advanced informatics approaches. She has Dr. Zhang has been serving as co-principal investigator/co-investigator leading the bioinformatics and statistical analyses in numerous federal funded research projects in various disease areas. Dr. Zhang has also been actively mentoring numerous graduate students and postdoctoral fellows over the years. She has also been chairing/organizing several international workshops in the informatics field since 2012. Dr. Zhang is a member of several professional societies, including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). She currently is the Chair of Women in Engineering Affinity Group in Baltimore Section of IEEE.