
Wei Zhang
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator
- Office: L3 Harris Engineering Center Room 437B
- Email: wzhang.cs@ucf.edu
- Phone: 407-823-2763
BIOGRAPHY
Wei Zhang is an associate professor of computer science at the University of Central Florida, where he also serves as graduate program coordinator. His research interests include computational biology, bioinformatics and machine learning, with a focus on cancer transcriptome analysis, biomarker discovery and drug sensitivity prediction. He has held previous academic and industry research positions and has been recognized for his contributions to computational biology.
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. in Computer Science – University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
RESEARCH
- Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- Cancer Transcriptome
- Biomarker Identification
- Post-transcriptional Regulation
- Drug Sensitivity Prediction
- Machine Learning
- Network-based Learning
- Semi-supervised Learning
- Reinforcement Learning
- Transfer Learning
PUBLICATIONS
- Jae-Woong Chang*, Wei Zhang*, Hsin-Sung Yeh, et al. An Integrative Model for Alternative Polyadenylation, IntMAP, Delineates mTOR-modulated Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Response. Nucleic Acids Research, 2018.
- Wei Zhang, Jeremy Chien, Jeongsik Yong, and Rui Kuang. Network-based Machine Learning and Graph Algorithms for Precision Oncology. npj Precision Oncology, 2017.
- Jae-Woong Chang*, Wei Zhang*, Hsin-Sung Yeh, et al. mRNA 3’UTR Shortening is a Molecular Signature of mTORC1 Activation. Nature Communications, 2015.
- Wei Zhang, Takayo Ota, et al. Network-based Survival Analysis Reveals Subnetwork Signatures for Predicting Outcomes of Ovarian Cancer Treatment. PLoS Comput Biol, 2013.
AWARDS
- NSF CRII (2018)
- Best Poster Award, The 6th Annual Biomedical Informatics and Computational Biology Research Symposium (2014)