Cucong Zhong, Ph.D.
- -Assistant Professor, Department of EECS
- -Institute for Information Sciences
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Biography —
Associated Concentrations
-Computational Bioengineering
Research Interests
-Computational Biology
-Biological big data and precision medicine
-Functional non-coding RNA
Education —
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