Cucong Zhong, Ph.D.


Cuncong Zhong
  • -Assistant Professor, Department of EECS
  • -Institute for Information Sciences

Contact Info

ITTC, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Lab

Biography

Associated Tracks

-Computational Bioengineering

Research Interests

-Computational Biology

-Biological big data and precision medicine

-Functional non-coding RNA

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Central Florida
M.S. in Computer Science, University of Central Florida
B.S. in Computer Science and Biotechnology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

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

Grants & Other Funded Activity

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