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

	Xinyu Wang, Ph.D. Student Office: ITEB 213 Research Interests: Deep Learning, Drug Discovery, Natural Language Processing, Generative AI, Reinforcement Learning Email: xinyu.wang@uconn.edu
	Blake Gaines, Ph.D. Student Office: ITEB 213 Research Interest: Deep Graph Neural Networks, Mathematical Foundation of Deep Learning, Explainable AI Email: blake@uconn.edu
	Faith Wariri, Ph.D. Student Office: ITEB 213 Research Interest: Machine learning, Health/Medical Informatics, Explainable AI Email: faith.wariri@uconn.edu
	Daniel Baker, M.S. Student Office: ITEB 213 Research Interest: Explainable AI, Vision-Language Models, Autonomous Driving Email: daniel.baker@uconn.edu
	Peining Zhang, Ph.D. Student Office: ITEB 213 Research Interest: Diffusion Models, Generative AI, 3D Generative Models, Molecule Representation and Generation, Drug Design Email: peining.zhang@uconn.edu
	Haochen Zhang, Ph.D. Student Office: ITEB 213 Research Interest: Foundation Models, Spatiotemporal Modeling, Earth Science Email: haochen.zhang@uconn.edu

Alumni

	Tan Zhu, Ph.D. Student graduated in 2024 Current Position: Senior Scientist at Walmart Global Tech. Research Interests: Multi-arm bandits, Reinforcement learning, Medical informatics Email: tan.zhu@uconn.edu
	Aaron Palmer, Ph.D. Student graduated in 2024 Current Position: Postdoc at UConn Research Interests: Statistical inference, Deep learning, Signal processing, EEG and brain signal analysis Email: aaron.palmer@uconn.edu
	Qinqing Liu, Ph.D. Student graduated in 2023 Current Position: Senior Scientist at Walmart Global Tech. Research Interests: Statistical inference, Deep learning, Drug discovery Email: qinqing.liu@uconn.edu
	Fei Dou, Ph.D. Student graduated in 2023 Current Position: Assistant Professor School of Computing 415 Boyd Research and Education Center University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602-7404 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/ Email: fei.dou@uga.edu
	Qianqian Tong, Ph.D. Student graduated in 2022 Current Position: Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of North Carolina, Greensboro 1400 Spring Garden Street Greensboro, NC 27412 Research Interests: Mathematical modeling, Parallel computing, Scalable machine learning Email: q_tong@uncg.edu
	Guannan Liang, Ph.D. Student graduated in 2021 Current Position: Scientist at Amazon Research Interests: Mathematical Optimization, Scalable machine learning, Statistical computing, Health/medical informatics Homepage: https://neilliang90.github.io/
	Chao Shang, Ph.D. Student graduated in 2020 Current Position: Senior Scientist at Amazon AWS AI Research Interests: Deep learning, Deep Graph Learning, Drug Discovery, Mathematical Modeling, Smartphone Data Analysis Homepage: https://chaoshangcs.github.io/
	Jin Lu, Ph.D. Student Graduated in 2019 Current Position: Assistant Professor School of Computing 415 Boyd Research and Education Center University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602-7404 Research Interests: Mathematical modeling, Statistical computing, Optimization algorithms, Bayesian inference, Health Informatics E-mail: jin.lu@uga.edu Homepage: https://jinlucs.github.io/
	Chunjiang Zhu, Postdoctoral Fellow graduated in 2019 Current Position: Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA 23529 Research Interests: Spectral graph theory, Machine learning, Graph algorithms, Databases E-mail: jczhu@odu.edu Homepage: https://chunjiangzhu.github.io/
	Zhenxiang Gao, Postdoctoral Fellow graduated in 2021 Current Position: Research Assistant Professor School of Medicine Case Western Reserve University 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, Ph.D. Student and Postdoctoral Fellow graduated in 2015 Current Position: Associate 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 2016-2018 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: Professor School of Computer Science and Technology Harbin Institute of Technology 2 West Culture Road, Weihai, China Research Interests: Deep learning, Pattern recognition, Data mining, Medical informatics Homepage https://guoqingchao.github.io/
	Soumitra Pal, Postdoctoral Fellow Aug 2015 – Dec 2016 Current Position: Staff Scientist National Eye Institute 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
	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