Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Biography
Jianlin (Jack) Cheng is a Curators’ Distinguished Professor and the Paul K. and Diane Shumaker Professor in Bioinformatics in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Missouri. He received his PhD in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine, in 2006. His research focuses on developing machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) methods and tools for the analysis of biological and medical data. His research group has developed numerous machine learning and bioinformatics tools for predicting protein structure, function, and interactions; inferring gene regulatory networks; and integrating multi-omics data. These tools are widely used by scientists around the world. His research has been supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). Cheng is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award and the University of Missouri College of Engineering’s junior and senior faculty research awards. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
Education
PhD from the University of California, Irvine
MS from Utah State University
BS from Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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Technical Focus
Artificial intelligence
Bioinformatics
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