معرفی
Aidong Zhang is the Thomas M. Linville Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, with joint appointments in Biomedical Engineering and the School of Data Science. Her research focuses on machine learning, interpretable AI, federated learning, and generative AI applications in healthcare and bioinformatics. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University.
Dr. Zhang has been honored with prestigious awards including the ACM Fellow (2017), IEEE Fellow (2009), and the 2025 Distinguished Researcher Award from UVA. Her work bridges computational methods with biomedical challenges, emphasizing fairness, robustness, and explainability in AI systems.
Key research areas include federated learning frameworks, concept-based models, and large language models for scientific hypothesis generation. Dr. Zhang leads a lab offering PhD positions in machine learning, bioinformatics, and health informatics. Notable grants include NSF projects on explainable AI platforms and hardware-software co-design for extreme-scale machine learning.
- Education: Ph.D., Computer Science, Purdue University
- Affiliations: School of Engineering and Applied Science, School of Data Science
- Grants: NSF-funded projects on federated learning, multimodal analysis, and biomedical AI
- Labs/Teams: Zhang's Research Group focusing on interpretable machine learning and healthcare applications
