Licong Cui

Licong Cui, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). She is also affiliated with the Center for Translational AI Excellence and Applications in Medicine (TEAM-AI) and the Texas Institute for Restorative Neurotechnologies (TIRN). Her research focuses on developing informatics methods to address biomedical data challenges, with expertise in ontologies, neuroinformatics, big data analytics, and clinical text mining.

Dr. Cui has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications and secured grants from NIH and NSF. Her work emphasizes ontology quality assurance, large language model applications in healthcare, and data integration frameworks. Notable contributions include developing the VaxBot-HPV chatbot for vaccine communication and advancing seizure frequency extraction methodologies using LLMs.

Her honors include the 2022 AMIA New Investigator Award and 2021 NSF CAREER Award. Current projects involve enhancing NIH Common Data Elements with AI tools and improving EHR-based cohort querying through ontology-driven approaches. She collaborates on initiatives like the National Sleep Research Resource and Vaccine Ontology harmonization efforts.