معرفی
Dr. Xinghua Lu is a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh. He specializes in computational methods for identifying signaling pathways in biological processes and diseases, and statistical methods for knowledge extraction from biomedical literature. His work focuses on translational bioinformatics, systems biology, and natural language processing for text mining.
Education:
- PhD from University of Connecticut Health Center
Research Interests: Dr. Lu develops computational models to simulate biological signaling systems and applies latent variable models to analyze genomic and transcriptomic data. His recent projects include establishing a Center/Institute in Translational Bioinformatics and advancing NLP techniques for biomedical text analysis.
Publications: His research emphasizes genomic alteration analysis, causal discovery from big data, and integrative modeling of gene expression. Key themes include cancer mechanism identification, systems biology applications, and machine learning-driven biomedical informatics.
Affiliations:
- Department of Biomedical Informatics
- School of Computing and Information
- McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine (implied via research context)
