Dr. Jianhua Ruan, Department of Computer Science, UTSA

Biography

 

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University in St Louis (2007)
  • Scientific genealogy: Jianhua Ruan < Weixiong Zhang < Richard Korf < Herbert Simon
• M.S. in Computer Science, California State University (2002)
• B.S. in Biology, University of Science and Technology of China (1998)

Positions

• 2007 - present: Assistant Professor, Dept of Computer Science, The University of Texas at San Antonio.
• 2010 - present: Associated Faculty of the UTSA/UTHSCSA Joint Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering
• 2002 - 2007: Graduate Research Associate, Dept of Computer Science, Washington University in St Louis .
• May 2005 - August 2005: Research Scientist Internship, Systems Biology group, Monsanto Company, St Louis , MO

Awards

• Best Performer, Third Annual DREAM Reverse Engineering Challenges, 2008
• UTSA Faculty Research Award, 2007
• Travel awards, AAAI'06, RECOMB Systems Biology 06, RECOMB Systems Biology 05, RECOMB 05, International Georgia Tech Bioinformatics conference 2003
• First Prize, National Chemistry Olympics, Chinese Society of Chemistry , 1993

Professional activities

• Conference organizer
  • Special/Poster Session Chair, IEEE International Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics (GENSIPS), 2011
  • Program Co-chair, Workshop on Graph Techniques for Biomedical Networks, in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) 2009
• Conference program committee
• Ninth International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (CIBB), 2012
• IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), 2010, 2011
• International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms (Bioinformatics), 2011,2012
• ACM International Workshop on Data Mining in Bioinformatics (BioKDD), 2010, 2011
• IEEE ICDM workshop on Biological Data Mining and its Applications in Healthcare, 2010, 2011
• International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing (BIOSIGNALS), 2010,2011,2012
• Conference of the Austrian Computer Society Workgroup: Human-Computer Interaction ( USAB) 2011 : Information Quality in e-Health
• Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Knowledge Discovery in Databases (HCI-KDD) @ USAB 2011
• International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 2008,2009
• IEEE International Workshop on Data Mining in Functional Genomics, 2008,2009
• Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI), 2009, 2010, 2011
• International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, 2009

• Journal Editorial board

  • ISRN Bioinformatics
• Journal reviewer
  • Bioinformatics
  • Nucleic Acids Research
  • PLoS Computational Biology
  • PLoS ONE
  • BMC Bioinformatics
  • BMC Genomics
  • BMC Systems Biology
  • FEBS Letters
  • Journal of Discrete Algorithms
  • Annals of Applied Statistics
  • EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
  • EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in BioMedicine
  • International Journal of Knowledge Discovery in Bioinformatics
  • International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics
  • International Journal of Computational Bioscience
  • International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making
  • Springer Publishing Company

Invited talks

• Mar 19, 2012, NCI Mathematics of Integrative Cancer Biology Program Meeting, Tampa, FL, "Network-based classification of recurrent endometrial cancers using DNA methylation data".
• Sept 14, 2011, Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, UTHSCSA, "Network-based Analysis of Functional Genomics Data ".
• Sept 7, 2011, Biomedical Engineering Joint Graduate Program, UTSA/UTHSCSA, "Computational Analysis of Biological Networks and Its Applications in Biomedicine".
• Oct 26, 2010, Tianjin University, China, "Current Challenges and Opportunities in Bioinformatics".
• Oct 25, 2010, Nankai University, China, "Community Discovery in Biological Networks and Applications in Systems Biology".
• Oct 24, 2010, 2nd International Conference on Computational and Systems Biology (ICCSB), Hangzhou, China, "Network-based Analysis of Microarray data"
• Oct 21, 2010 , IEEE Computer Society San Antonio Chapter, "Computational Analysis of Biological Networks".
• Oct 29, 2009, the 2009 RECOMB Systems Biology / Regulatory Genomics / DREAM3 Conference, Cambridge, MA, "A Best-performance Algorithm in the DREAM3 Gene-Expression Prediction Challenge".
• April, 2007, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, "Community Discovery and Analysis in Biological Networks".
• April 3, 2007, Department of Computer Science, George Mason University, "Community Discovery and Analysis in Biological Networks".
• Nov 28, 2006, City of Hope, Duarte, CA, " Data Mining Methods for Analyzing Microarray Data and Gene Networks".

Publications

 

Research Support

 

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