Brendan Iribe Endowed Professor, University of Maryland College Park
Heng Huang received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Dartmouth College, and his M.S. and B.S. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research areas include machine learning, data mining, bioinformatics, neuroinformatics, and precision medicine. As a pioneer researcher in machine learning and biomedical data science, he has published more than 230 papers in top-tier conferences and many papers in premium journals, such as NeurIPS, ICML, KDD, RECOMB, ISMB, IJCAI, AAAI, CVPR, ICCV, SIGIR, Bioinformatics, TPAMI, JMLR, TMI, Medical Image Analysis, etc. He is leading multiple NSF funded projects and NIH R01/U01 projects on big data mining, machine learning, imaging genomics, electronic medical records mining and privacy-preserving, computational biology, smart healthcare, cyber physical system. He served as the Program Chair of ACM SIGKDD 2020. He is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.