[CCoE Notice] Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series Presents: Data Science for Cancer Resesarch

[Grayson, Audrey A]

University of Houston - Biomedical Engineering Seminar

Friday, Sept. 14, 2018, Noon, Rm 205 SEC

Data Science for Cancer Research





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W. Jim Zheng, Ph.D.

Director,  Data Science and Informatics Core for Cancer Research

Cancer has been studied at all levels, ranging from molecules, to cells, to individuals, to populations. However, cancer research faces significant challenges such as enormous volume and heterogeneity of the data.  Furthermore, new technologies applied to cancer research can generate data at extremely high speeds. These “big data” pose a significant challenge to conventional data analysis methodologies.  We established a Data Science and Informatics Core Facility for Cancer Research (DSICCR) to analyze big data and provides integrative solutions to analyze cancer data at all levels.  DSICCR supports the cancer research community by establishing a powerful “big data” infrastructure using data science-oriented high-performance computing, deployed with analytic and mining algorithms and software built upon DSICCR faculty’s cutting-edge data science and informatics research. This infrastructure will support DSICCR’s data science and informatics services to the cancer research community through collaborative research, data analysis services, and outreach and education programs.  DSICCR is uniquely positioned to leverage existing research networks and make this vast amount of information more available to the cancer research community – an unprecedented opportunity to support multi-scale cancer research statewide.

BIOSKETCH

Dr. Zheng obtained his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from UT Southwestern and MS in Computer Science from UT Dallas.  Dr. Zheng is an associate professor and the director of Bioinformatics and High Performance Computing Service Center at the University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHealth) School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston. Dr. Zheng is an expert in data mining, large scale data integration and visualization, and received PhRMA Foundation Research Starter Award in 2008.

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