Jean Gao PhD

Dr. Jean X. Gao is currently a Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). She received her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University, and her MS and BS degrees both in Biomedical Engineering from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and Shanghai Medical University, respectively. Her research has been focused on developing efficient algorithms to solve large-scale data analysis problems in basic medicine and clinical settings while making theoretical and fundamental contributions to machine learning, data mining, statistical pattern recognition, and computer vision. Her research discoveries have been reported in over 180 peer-reviewed top journals and conference proceedings. She was the recipient of the prestigious National Science Foundation Career Award, the UTA College of Engineering Research Excellence Award, and the Outstanding Young Faculty Award.

Dr. Gao is currently the Computer Society Representative to the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Steering Committee. She was the Chair of the 2017 EIC (Editor-in-Chief) Search Committee for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB). She has served as an Executive Committee Member and Secretary of the IEEE CS Technical Committee on Computational Life Sciences from 2010 to 2015. She has been the Associate Editor for IEEE/ACM TCBB, International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics since 2008, and the PhD Forum Chair for the 2014 ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM BCB). She has served as the program co-chair for the 2017 and 2012 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) conference, the program co-chair for the IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI), and the Bioinformatics Track chair for the 2011 Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference (SBEC). She has served as Guest Editor for IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience (2013), Guest Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (2013), and Guest Editor for Elsevier Computers in Biology and Medicine (2014). In addition, she has served as a technical committee member, track chair, session chair, publication chair, reviewer, and panelist for numerous journals, conferences, workshops, and funding agencies (NSF and NIH).