William Wulf Faculty Fellow and Professor Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Data Science
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PhD, Purdue 1994
Aidong Zhang develops machine learning and data science approaches to modeling and analysis of structured and unstructured data with a variety of applications, especially biological and biomedical applications. Dr. Zhang is a William Wulf Faculty Fellow and Professor of Computer Science, with a joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and School of Data Science at University of Virginia. Her research interests focus on machine learning, data mining, bioinformatics and health informatics.
Note: My lab has position available for creative PhD students, motivated for doing research in the areas of machine learning, data mining, bioinformatics, and health informatics. If you are interested, please contact me.
Awards
Fellow -- American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)2021
Aidong Zhang adds machine learning expertise to biomedical data sciences at UVA
One measure of the success of UVA’s campaign to take its place as a national leader in the data sciences is its ability to attract highly regarded researchers to join the faculty...
On Hierarchical Disentanglement of Interactive Behaviors for Multimodal Spatiotemporal Data with Incompleteness, Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2023), Long Beach, CA, USA, August 6-1 Jiayi Chen and Aidong Zhang
Enhance Diffusion to Improve Robust Generalization, Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2023), Long Beach, CA, USA, August 6-10, 2023 Jianhui Sun, Sanchit Sinha, Aidong Zhang
Interpretable Meta-learning of Multi-omics Data for Survival Analysis and Pathway Enrichment, Bioinformatics Journal, March 2, 2023. Hyun Jae Cho, Mia Shu, Stefan Bekiranov, Chongzhi Zang, and Aidong Zhang
Understanding and Enhancing Robustness of Concept-based Models, the Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2023) Sanchit Sinha, Mengdi Huai, Jianhui Sun, Aidong Zhang
CLEAR: Generative Counterfactual Explanations on Graphs, NeurIPS 2022 Conference, New Orleans, November 28 -- December 9, 2022. Jing Ma, Ruocheng Guo, Saumitra Mishra, Aidong Zhang, Jundong Li
Towards Automating Model Explanations with Certified Robustness Guarantee, Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2022), Vancouver Convention Centre, Canada, Feb 21-28, 2022. Mengdi Huai, Jinduo Liu, Chenglin Miao, Liuyi Yao, Aidong Zhang
Demystify Hyperparameters for Stochastic Optimization with Transferable Representations, Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2022) Jianhui Sun, Mengdi Huai, Kishlay Jha, and Aidong Zhang
FedMSplit: Correlation-Adaptive Federated Multi-Task Learning across Multimodal Split Networks, Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2022) Jiayi Chen and Aidong Zhang
Towards Automating Model Explanations with Certified Robustness Guarantee, Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2022) Mengdi Huai, Jinduo Liu, Chenglin Miao, Liuyi Yao, Aidong Zhang
Knowledge-Guided Efficient Representation Learning for Biomedical Domain, Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2021) Kishlay Jha, Guangxu Xun, Nan Du, and Aidong Zhang
A Stagewise Hyperparameter Scheduler to Improve Generalization, Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2021), Singapore, August 14-18, 2021. Jianhui Sun, Ying Yang, Guangxu Xun, and Aidong Zhang
Malicious Attacks against Deep Reinforcement Learning Interpretations, the 26th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2020) Mengdi Huai, Jianhui Sun, Renqin Cai, Liuyi Yao and Aidong Zhang
Towards Interpretation of Pairwise Learning, the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20) Mengdi Huai, Di Wang, Chenglin Miao, Aidong Zhang
CorNet: Correlation Networks for Extreme Multi-label Text Classification, the 26th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2020) Guangxu Xun, Kishlay Jha, Jianhui Sun and Aidong Zhang
Task-Adaptive Graph Meta-learning, the 26th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2020) Qiuling Suo, Jingyuan Chou, Weida Zhong and Aidong Zhang
HGMF: Heterogeneous Graph-based Fusion for Multimodal Data with Incompleteness, the 26th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2020) Jiayi Chen and Aidong Zhang
Pairwise Learning with Differential Privacy Guarantees, the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-20) Mengdi Huai, Di Wang, Chenglin Miao, Jinhui Xu, Aidong Zhang
Metric Learning on Healthcare Data with Incomplete Modalities, the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2019), Macao, China, August 10-16, 2019. Qiuling Suo, Weida Zhong, Fenglong Ma, Ye Yuan, Jing Gao, and Aidong Zhang
Hypothesis Generation From Text Based On Co-Evolution Of Biomedical Concepts, the 25th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2019), Alaska, USA, August 4-8, 2019. Kishlay Jha, Guangxu Xun, Yaqing Wang, and Aidong Zhang
Deep Metric Learning: The Generalization Analysis and an Adaptive Algorithm, the 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2019), Macao, China, August 10-16, 2019. Mengdi Huai, hongfei Xue, Chenglin Miao, Liuyi Yao, Lu Su, Changyou Chen, and Aidong Zhang
Semi-supervised Few-shot Learning for Disease Type Prediction, the Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-19), Honolulu, Hawaii, January 27 – February 1, 2019. Tianle Ma and Aidong Zhang
Representation Learning for Treatment Effect Estimation from Observational Data, Thirty-second Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS2018), Montréal, Canada, December 3-8, 2018. Liuyi Yao, Sheng Li, Yaliang Li, Mengdi Huai, Jing Gao, and Aidong Zhang
Concepts-Bridges: Uncovering Conceptual Bridges Based on Biomedical Concept Evolution, the 24th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2018), London, UK, August 19-23, 2018. Kishlay Jha, Guangxu Xun, Yaqing Wang, Vishrawas Gopalakrishnan, and Aidong Zhang
Metric Learning from Probabilistic Labels, the 24th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2018), London, UK, August 19-23, 2018. Mengdi Huai, Chenglin Miao, Yaliang Li, Qiuling Suo, Lu Su, and Aidong Zhang
