Jean X. Gao, Ph.D.
Professor, AIMBE Fellow
Computer Science and Engineering Department
University of Texas at Arlington
Email:  gao AT uta.edu

Research Interests:

• Data Sciences, Machine Learning, Data Mining, and Artificial Science
  
• Computational Biomedical Data Analysis and Bioinformatics
• Macro/Micro Medical Image Processing
• Computer Vision, Image Processing

Work Experience: 

  I have joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as  a permanent Program Director under the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) from the spring of 2024 and I can be reached by "jean.gao@nih.gov".

• Program Director, National Institutes of Health, NHGRI (Permanent). (2024 -  Present).
• co-lead the CGDS (Computational Genomics and Data Science) program
  
• Program Coordinator for Common Fund Bridge2AI (Bridge to Artificial Intelligence) program
• Program Director for ODSS (Office of Data Science Strategy) Sustainable Software Tools program
• co-lead the MorPhiC (Molecular Phenotypes of Null Alleles in Cells) program
• Program Director, National Science Foundation (NSF) (Rotator). (July 2019 - July 2023).
• Led 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.
  
• Professor Emerita, University of Texas at Arlington, Computer Science and Engineering Department. (2025 - Present)
  
• Full Professor, University of Texas at Arlington, Computer Science and Engineering Department. ( 2014 - 2024).
• 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 Department. (2009 - 2014).
• Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Arlington, Computer Science and Engineering Department. (2003 - 2009).

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)

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