Jiangwen Sun

Jiangwen Sun is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Old Dominion University (ODU), within the College of Science. He directs the ODU Computational Systems Medicine Lab and focuses on machine learning approaches for analyzing multi-dimensional biological data (phenome, genome, transcriptome, etc.) to advance precision medicine and its automation. His research is supported by ODU and federal agencies like NIH and NSF.

Education:

• Ph.D., University of Connecticut
• M.E., Nanjing University, China
• B.M., Secondary Military Medical University, China

Research Interests:

• Machine learning/data mining for medicine, health, drug discovery, and bioinformatics
• Multi-view bi-clustering and integrative analysis of genomic/phenotypic data
• Phenotype refinement and genetic association studies for complex diseases
• Applications in addiction medicine, cardiovascular biology, and bovine development

Publications: Over 40 peer-reviewed articles in top venues like NIPS, ICML, Bioinformatics, and BMC Genomics. Recent work focuses on cryo-EM protein structure analysis, single-cell multiomics, and epigenetic modeling.

Awards/Grants: NIH/NSF funding pending; previously supported by UConn's Health Informatics Lab and collaborations with University of Pennsylvania.

Teaching: Courses include Machine Learning (CS722/822), Data Structures (CS361), and Deep Learning in Medicine (CS795/895).

Labs/Teams: Leads the ODU Computational Systems Medicine Lab and collaborates with UConn Health Informatics Lab, Penn Medicine, and others.