AIDONG ZHANG

Thomas M. Linville Professor
Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Data Science

Rice Hall 509
85 Engineer's Way
Charlottesville, Virgnia 22904

434-243-4449

About

Dr. Aidong Zhang's research focuses on developing machine learning approaches to interpretable and fair learning, concept-based learning, federated learning, and generative AI. She also works on large language models for hypothesis generations for scientific discovery. Dr. Zhang is Thomas M. Linville Professor of Computer Science, with a joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and School of Data Science at University of Virginia. Her research interests focus on machine learning, data mining, bioinformatics and health informatics. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University.

Dr. Zhang is an author of over 400 research publications in the areas of machine learning, data mining, bioinformatics, and health informatics.

Dr. Zhang is currently recruiting Graduate Research Assistantships. Interested students please contact Dr. Zhang for further information.

Awards / Honors

  • Thomas M. Linville Endowed Professorship, 2023
  • American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Fellow, 2021
  • ACM Fellow, 2017
  • SUNY Distinguished Professor, 2014
  • IEEE Fellow, 2009
  • Editor-in-Chief, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB), 2017 – 2020
  • National Science Foundation CAREER Award 1998 – 2002

Research Interests

  • Machine Learning
  • Data Mining
  • Bioinformatics
  • Health Informatics