Jean X. Gao, Ph.D.
Professor, FAIMBE
Computer Science and Engineering Department
University of Texas at Arlington
Email: gao AT uta.edu
Phone: 817-272-3628
Research Interests:
- Data Sciences, Machine Learning, Data Mining, and Pattern
Discovery
- Computational Biomedical Data Analysis and Bioinformatics
- Macro/Micro Medical Image Processing
- Computer Vision, Image Processing
Research Lab website:
Biomedical Computing and Intelligent
Systems Lab (BioMeCiS)
Honors:
- Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological
Engineering (AIMBE), 2022
- Director's Award for Superior Accomplishment, National Science
Foundation (NSF), 2022
- Chair, Steering Committee, IEEE/ACM Transactions on
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (IEEE/ACM TCBB), 2022
-.
- National Science
Foundation Early CAREER Award, 2006
- Outstanding Young Faculty Award, School of Engineering,
University of Texas at Arlington, 2007
- Research Excellence Award, Departmental Level, UTA, 2008, 2009
Education:
PhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Purdue University
MS, Biomedical Engineering, Rose-Hulman
Institute of Technology
BS, Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai
Medical University
(a six-year joint program with
Shanghai Jiaotong University)
Work Experience:
- Program Director, National Science
Foundation. (July 2019 - July 2023).
- Lead Program Director in charge
of the Innovation: Bioinformatics program in Division of
Biological Infrastructure (DBI).
- BIO/DBI Research Resource
Cluster coordinator (2022-2023).
- Along with other working group
members, initiated and published three new programs, MCA
(Mid-Career Advancement), D2R2 (Dark Dimensions for the RNA
Regulome), and POSE (Pathways to Enable Open Source
Ecosystems)
- Initiated and sponsored the
NSF-NIH Joint Workshop on Emerging AI for Biology.
- Full Professor, University of
Texas at Arlington, College of Science and Engineering. ( 2014 -
Present).
- Faculty Member, Joint Graduate
Studies Committee, Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas
at Arlington. (2007 - 2014).
- Associate Professor, University of
Texas at Arlington, Computer Science and Engineering. (2009 -
2014).
- Assistant Professor, University of
Texas at Arlington, Computer Science and Engineering. (2003 -
2009).
Publications:
Please check the
lab web page.
Teaching:
- CSE2315 Discrete Structure
Fall
- CSE5301 Data Analysis and Modeling
Spring
- CSE5370 Bioinformatics
Fall 2010
- CSE5367 Pattern
Recognition Spring 2011
- CSE6363 Machine Learning
Fall
- CSE5392.502 Bioinformatics
- CSE5392 Pattern Recognition and Decision
Making Processes
Major Research Community
Services:
Editorships and Editorial Boards
- Associate Editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB), 2018 -
- Chair, Steering Committee, IEEE/ACM
Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB),
2022 -
- Editorial board member, International
Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics (2008 - )
- Guest Editor, Elsevier Method, Special
Issue on Big Data Bioinformatics, vol. 114, 2016
- Guest Editor, Elsevier Computers in Biology
and Medicine, Vol. 64, 2015
- Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on
Information Technology in Biomedicine, 2013
- Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on
NanoBioScience, 2013
Advisory Panels
- IEEE Computer Society Representative on the
Steering Committee for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational
Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB), 2018 -
- Chair of the EIC (Editor-in-Chief) Search
Committee for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and
Bioinformatics (TCBB), 2016
- Executive Committee Member and Secretary,
IEEE CS Technical Committee on Computational Life Sciences
(TCCLS) (2010-2015)
Organizers and Offices at
Professional Society
- Program co-Chair, IEEE International
Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) (2017)
- Program co-Chair, IEEE International
Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) (2012)
- Program co-Chair, IEEE International
Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI)
(2013)
- Publication Chair, IEEE HISB (Healthcare
Informatics, Imaging, and Systems Biology) conference, San Jose,
July , 2011, CA
- Bioinformatics Track Chair, 27th Southern
Biomedical Engineering Conference (SBEC), 2011
- Conference workshop general co-Chair, IEEE
International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine
(BIBM), 2008.
- Workshop Chair, Workshop on High-Throughput
Data Analysis for Proteomics and Genomics, in conjunction with
IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine
(BIBM), Nov 2-4, 2007.
Sponsors:
We gratefully acknowledge the
support from the following sponsors for our research:
- National
Science Foundation (NSF)
- National
Institutes of Health (NIH)
- American
Cancer Society (ACS)
Contact:
Computer Science and Engineering
Department
538 Engineering Research Building (ERB)
University of Texas at Arlington
500 UTA Boulevard
Arlington, TX 76019
Phone: (817)272-3628
Email: gao AT uta.edu
Office Hour:
Tue, Thu: 12:30pm
-- 1:30pm.
Mon, Wed, Fri: by appointment