Aidong Zhang, PhD

Program Director in the Information & Intelligent Systems Division of the Directorate for Computer & Information Science & EngineeringNational Science Foundation

Dr. Aidong Zhang is a SUNY Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo where she served as the Department Chair from 2009 to 2015, and has also held adjunct professor positions in both Biomedical Engineering and Biomedical Informatics Departments. She is currently on leave and serving as a Program Director in the Information & Intelligent Systems Division of the Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering, at the National Science Foundation.   Her research interests include data mining/data science, machine learning, bioinformatics, and health informatics.  She has authored over 300 research publications in these areas. Dr. Zhang currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB).  She served as the founding Chair of ACM Special Interest Group on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics during 2011-2015 and is currently the Chair of its advisory board.  She is also the founding and steering chair of ACM international conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Health Informatics. She has served as editors for several other journal editorial boards, and has also chaired or served on numerous program committees of international conferences and workshops. Dr. Zhang is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow.

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