Cuncong Zhong Ph.D.
Titles
Assistant Professor, Department of EECS/ITTC
Associated Tracks
Computational Bioengineering
Research Interests
Computational Biology
Biological big data and precision medicine
Functional non-coding RNA
Education
2013: University of Central Florida, Ph.D. in Computer Science
2009: University of Central Florida, M.S., in Computer Science
2007: Huazhong University of Science and Technology, B.S. in Computer Science and Biotechnology
Teaching
2016-Current: Department of EECS, University of Kansas, Assistant Professor
2013-2016: J. Craig Venter Institute, Post-Doctoral Fellow (Computational)
2013: Illumina Inc., Bioinformatics Intern
2012: Discrete Mathematics
2011: System Software
2011: Computer Architecture Concepts
2010: Programming in JavaScript
2009: Operating system concepts
2008: Introduction to computer information system
2008: Database concepts
2007: Introduction to programming language with C
Research
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: Algorithms and data structure, machine learning, and data mining
Biological big data and precision medicine: Next generation sequence-based human metagenomics, genomics, genetics/epigenetic, transcriptomics, and oncology research
Functional non-coding RNA: Structural Biology and functional genomics
Selected Presentations
2016: School of Medicine, University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS
2016: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Cuncong Zhong (latest update: September 2016) Page 4
Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2016: School of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
2015: Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA
2015: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
2015: International Symposium of Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA), Norfolk, VA, USA
2013: J. Craig Venter Institute, La Jolla, CA
2012: IEEE International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS), Las Vegas, NV, USA
2009: Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB), Tucson, AZ, USA
Selected Awards & Honors
2015: Traveling Fellowship: International Symposium of Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA), Norfolk, VA, USA
2013: Award of Outstanding Thesis: College of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida (only one selected from the entire college)
2012: Best Paper Award: IEEE International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS), Las Vegas, NV, USA (only one selected from all accepted papers of the conference)
2012: Traveling Fellowship: IEEE International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS), Las Vegas, NV, USA