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Aidong Zhang is the Thomas M. Linville Professor at the University of Virginia and a Fellow of the ACM (2017), IEEE, and the American Institute of Medical and Biomedical Engineering. With 29 years of ACM membership, she founded the ACM Special Interest Group on Bioinformatics (SIGBio) in 2011 and served as its Chair and advisor until 2021, establishing its flagship ACM-BCB conference and serving as Steering Committee Chair until 2019.
Her research pioneers bioinformatics, computational biology, and data mining through multimodal data fusion for heterogeneous integration, biomedical knowledge graph construction from scientific literature, and heterogeneous multi-omics data clustering. Recent work advances interpretable machine learning models for explainable complex data analysis in health informatics, evidenced by high citation impact and novel computational methodologies enabling biomedical discovery.
Major recognitions include:
- ACM Distinguished Service Award (2023) for leadership in bioinformatics, computational biology, and data mining communities
- ACM Fellow (2017) for contributions to bioinformatics and data mining
- IEEE Fellow and Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biomedical Engineering
She served as NSF Program Director (2015-2018) managing federal computing investments and founded diversity initiatives including Women in Bioinformatics, the PhD Student Forum, and Health Informatics Symposium. Editorial leadership includes Editor-in-Chief of ACM/IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (2017-2021) and roles in ACM SIGMOD-DiSC, Multimedia Systems Journal, and SIGKDD 2022 General Chair.
