Yanqing Ji

Dr. Yanqing Ji is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Gonzaga University, specializing in biomedical informatics and high-performance computing. He serves as an editor for the Journal of Digital Signal Processing and a reviewer for 23 international journals.

• Education:
  • Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Wayne State University
  • M.Sc. in Physical Electronics, University of Science & Technology of China
  • B.E. in Industrial Automation, Qingdao University

Dr. Ji's research focuses on biomedical association mining, adverse drug reaction detection, and parallel/cloud computing applications in healthcare. His work integrates machine learning, fuzzy logic, and multi-agent systems to enhance drug safety surveillance and biomedical literature search.

His publications emphasize scalable MapReduce solutions for biomedical text mining, temporal association mining for drug interactions, and intelligent agent systems for pharmacovigilance. These span prestigious conferences like IEEE BIBM, ITNG, and NAFIPS, alongside journals such as BMC Bioinformatics and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.

Scientific awards include NIH R21, AHRQ R18 grants, and NSF-funded projects (IGERT 9987598, MRI 9977815, ITR 0081696). He has led system design for distributed healthcare applications and optimized decision models using genetic algorithms.