Openings
We have openings for postdoctoral associates, and RA positions for graduate students in data science, electric and computer science and/or health informatics. Feel free to send your CV, top 3 publications if any, and cover letter to Dr. Rui Zhang for considerations.
Prospective PhD applications can apply directly through Health Informatics, BICB, ECE programs and mention Prof. Zhang as their potential advisor on their application documents.
Principal Investigator
Rui Zhang, PhD, FAMIA
Dr. Zhang is Professor and Founding Chief of Division of Computational Health Sciences in the Department of Surgery. He is named as McKnight Presidential Fellow and the Director of NLP/IE research program. He is Scientific Co-Director of Innovative Methods & Data Science program in the Center for Learning Health Systems Science, co-Chair of AI and Data Science for Healthcare in Data Science and AI Hub. Dr. Zhang is a graduate faculty in Data Science, BICB, ECE, and SAPh graduate programs. His research interests are clinical NLP and LLM, text mining, knowledge graph and discovery, complementary and integrative health informatics, machine learning. His research has been supported by NCCIH, NIA, NCI, NIMDH, NIKDD, ODS, AHRQ and Medtronic. Dr. Zhang serves on multiple NIH study sections and JAMIA Editorial Board, JBI Editorial Board, NPJ Health Systems, and Chair of AMIA NLP Working group. He was elected as Fellow of American College of Medical Informatics (FACMI) and FAMIA.
Current Members
Yu Hou, PhD
Xiaoyi Chen
Jia Li, PhD
PhD, Computer Science, University of Minnesota
Jun Wang
PhD, Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong
Kai Yu
PhD, Signal and Information Processing, Soochow University
Min Zeng
PhD, Computer Science, Hongkong Science and Technology University
Yongkang Xiao
PhD student in Health Informatics
Meijia Song
PhD student in Nursing Informatics
Zaifu Zhan
PhD student in Electronic and Computer Engineering
Yifan Wu
PhD student in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Master Student
Navanshu Khare
Shifa Siddiqui
SriHarshitha Anuganti
Alumni
Programmer
- Mingchen Li, MS
- Datlon Schutter, BA
- Jake Vasilakes, MS
Postdoctoral Associate
- Mousumi Roy, PhD
- Rubina Rizvi, MD, PhD
PhD Students
- Han Yang, MS
- Sicheng Zhou, PhD
- Zhecheng Sheng, MS
- Yadan Fan, PhD
- David Marc, PhD
- Anu Bompelli, MS
PharmD/MHI Students
Master students
- Ruyuan Wan, MS
- Esha Singh, MS
- Thao Nguyen, MS
- Wendi Zhao, MD, MHI
- Miao Yu, MS
- Nivedha Manohar, MHI
- Xi Chen, MS
- Gopal Sarda, MS
- Mian Li, MS
Undergraduate students
- Yoonkwon (Dominic) Yi, BS
- Yutong Li, BS
- Devin (Dingwei) Deng, BS
- Yuanhao Ruan, BS
High School Students
- Athena Wang (Philips Exeter Academy), named as AMIA High School Scholar, 2022
- Andrew Wang (Wayzata High School), Named as AMIA High School Scholar, 2021
- Nathan Wu (Wayzata High School)
- Andrew Yang (Wayzata High School, currently engineering student in Columbia University), Named as AMIA High School Scholar, 2020
- Caroline Zeng (Wayzata High School, currently CS student in Stanford University)
- Alex Cheng (Breck High School, currently in Columbia University), named as AMIA High School Scholar, 2017
- Samuel Aronson (Breck High School), named as AMIA High School Scholar, 2017