Members | Laboratory of Machine Learning & Health Informatics

Jinbo Bi

Ph.D., Rensselear Polytechnic Institute
M.Sc., Beijing Institute of Technology

Professor
Associate Head
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
School of Engineering
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269
Department of Community Medicine and Health Care
School of Medicine
University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT 06030

Research Interests:Mathematical programming, Machine learning, Statistical data mining, Computer vision, Medical image analysis, Statistical computing, Support vector machines, Dimension reduction, Health/medical informatics, drug discovery

371 Fairfield Way, Unit 2155
Storrs, CT 06269-2155
Office: ITEB 233
Tel: 860-486-1458
Fax: 860-486-4817 (CSE Dept)
Email: jinbo.bi@uconn.edu
Homepage: https://jinbo-bi.uconn.edu/

Current Members

	Aaron Palmer, Ph.D. Student Research Interests: Statistical inference, Deep learning, Signal processing, EEG and brain signal analysis Office: ITEB 213 Email: aaron.palmer@uconn.edu
	Qianqian Tong, Ph.D. Student Research Interests: Mathematical modeling, Parallel computing, Scalable machine learning Office: ITEB 213 Email: qianqian.tong@uconn.edu
	Tan Zhu, Ph.D. Student Research Interests: Multi-arm bandits, Reinforcement learning, Medical informatics Office: ITEB 213 Email: tan.zhu@uconn.edu
	Qinqing Liu, Ph.D. Student Research Interests: Statistical inference, Deep learning, Drug discovery Office: ITEB 213 Email: qinqing.liu@uconn.edu
	Fei Dou, Ph.D. Student Research Interests: Reinforcement Learning, Federated Learning, Contrastive Learning, Representation Learning; Internet of Things (IoT), Location-based Services (LBS), Edge Computing, Remote Sensing Imagery Homepage: https://fayedou.github.io/ Office: ITEB 213 Email: fei.dou@uconn.edu
	Xinyu Wang, Ph.D. Student Research Interests: Machine Learning, Drug Discovery, Natural Language Processing, Cybersecurity Office: ITEB 213 Email: xinyu.wang@uconn.edu
	Blake Gaines, Ph.D. Student Research Interest: Machine Learning, Graph Theory, Bioinformatics Office: ITEB 213 Email: blake@uconn.edu
	Faith Wariri, Ph.D. Student Research Interest: Machine learning, Health/Medical Informatics, Programming in python Office: ITEB 213 Email: faith.wariri@uconn.edu

Alumni

	Guannan Liang, Ph.D. Student Research Interests: Mathematical Optimization, Scalable machine learning, Statistical computing, Health/medical informatics Homepage: https://neilliang90.github.io/
	Chao Shang, Ph.D. Student Research Interests: Deep learning, Deep Graph Learning, Drug Discovery, Mathematical Modeling, Smartphone Data Analysis Homepage: http://www.chaoshangcs.com
	Chunjiang Zhu, Postdoctoral Fellow Research Interests: Spectral graph theory, Machine learning, Graph algorithms, Databases Homepage: http://chunjiangzhu.github.io
	Zhenxiang Gao, Postdoctoral Fellow Research Interests: Deep Learning, Drug Discovery, Network Science
	Fatir Qureshi, Undergraduate Researcher Research Interests: Analysis of phenotypic and genotypic data, Programming in Matlab/Python
	Daniel Ruskin, Undergraduate Researcher Research Interests: Optimization, C++ pipeline programming
	Param Bidja, Undergraduate Researcher Research Interests: Machine learning analysis, deep learning, mathematical programming, algorithms Homepage: https://parambidja.github.io/
	Haining Li, Undergraduate Researcher Research Interests: Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, Programming in Matlab/Python
	Nhat Phan, Undergraduate Researcher Research Interests: Drug discovery, Programming in C++/Python

	Javon (Jiangwen) Sun, Postdoctoral Fellow Current Position: Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Old Dominion University 3300 Engineering & Computational Sciences Building Norfolk, Virginia 23529-0162 Research Interests: Machine learning – Multi-view data analysis, Proximal algorithms, Sparse predictive modeling; Bioinformatics – Heritable component analysis, Genomewide association analysis, Medical genetics for addictive disorders E-mail: jsun@odu.edu Homepage: https://www.cs.odu.edu/~jsun/
	Ko-Shin Chen, Postdoctoral Fellow Current Position: Research Scientist Department of Health, New York State, Albany, NY Research Interests: Applied mathematics, Partial differential equations, Multiscale data analysis E-mail: ko-shin.chen@uconn.edu
	Guoqing Chao, Postdoctoral Fellow Dec 2015 – Dec 2017 Current Position: Research Associate School of Medicine, Northwestern University Research Interests: Machine learning, Pattern recognition, Data mining, Bioinformatics, Medical informatics
	Soumitra Pal, Postdoctoral Fellow Aug 2015 – Dec 2016 Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894 USA Research Interests: Algorithms, Parallel and distributed systems, Bioinformatics, Predictive modeling E-mail: soumitra.pal@nih.gov Homepage: https://sites.google.com/site/soumitrakp/, https://infocus.nlm.nih.gov/2017/06/14/quick-qa-ncbi-group/
	Tingyang Xu, Ph.D. Student Graduated in 2017 Current Position: Scientist in Tencent Technologies Inc AI Laboratory, Shenzhen, China Research Interests: Tensor regression, Metric learning, Multi-view data analysis, Parallel and distributed machine learning algorithms
	Xin Wang, Ph.D. Student Graduated in 2016 Current Position: Staff Scientist, Clinical Informatics Division, Phillip Global Research, Boston, MA Research Interests: Multi-task learning, Multiple instance learning, Learning from crowdsourcing annotations, Medical image analysis
	Jin Lu, Ph.D. Student Graduated in 2019 Current Position: Assistant Professor Department of Computer and Information Science University of Michigan, Dearborn 4901 Evergreen Rd, CIS 140 Dearborn, Michigan 48128 Research Interests: Mathematical modeling, Statistical computing, Optimization algorithms, Bayesian inference, Health Informatics E-mail: jinluz@umich.edu Homepage: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jinluz/
	Huizhong Gao, M.S. Student Graduated in 2017 Current Position: Software Engineer, Cisco, San Jose， CA Research Interests: Smartphone sensing data analysis, electrical engineering
	Savanna Smith, Undergraduate Researcher Graduated in 2017 Research Interests: Machine learning analysis of biosensor data, Gait analysis, Biometric authentication
	Nicholas Choma, Undergraduate Researcher Graduated in 2017 Current position: Graduate student in the Department of Computer Science, New York University Research Interests: Deep learning, recurrent neural networks, representation learning, and information theory
	Joseph Muller, Undergraduate Researcher Graduated in 2016 Research Interests: Analysis of genetic data, Software engineering, Webpage design, Programming with R, IT support Office: ITEB 213 E-mail: joseph.muller@uconn.edu
	Ruhua Jiang, M.S. Student Graduated in 2015 Current position: Software Engineer at Twitter, NY.
	Aditya Dhakal, M.S. Student Graduated in 2014 Current position: Software Engineer with Energy Exemplar, Ltd
	Jingyuan Zhang, M.S. Student Graduated in 2014 Current position: Software Engineer with Accenture LLP, Boston, MA
	Ahmet Can Mingir, M.S. Student Graduated in 2012
	Glenn Ortiz, Undergraduate Researcher Graduated in 2012
	Yu Wu, M.S. Student Graduated in 2012 Current position: Software Engineer with Microsoft Corp
	Arun Abraham, M.S. Student Graduated in 2012
	Dillon McManus, Undergraduate Researcher Research Interests: Programming a pipeline for genetic and subtyping analysis in C++/Python
	Jiwen Zhang, Undergraduate Researcher (from Eastern Connecticut Univ.) Research Interests: Data preparation and conversion, Programming in Matlab/Python
	Huayi Ji, Undergraduate Researcher Research Interests: Analysis of clinical data, Programming in Matlab/Python