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Public Biography
Dr. May Dongmei Wang is Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Fellow and full professor of BME and ECE at Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) and Emory University (EU) in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. She received BEng from Tsinghua University China and MS/PhD from GT. She is Director of Biomedical Big Data Initiative, Georgia Distinguished Cancer Scholar, Board of Directors of American Board of AI in Medicine, Petit Institute Faculty Fellow, Kavli Fellow, AIMBE Fellow, IAMBE Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and ELATES Fellow. Dr. Wang works in Biomedical AI, Big Data, Health Informatics, and Metaverse for predictive, personalized, and precision health (pHealth). She published over 330 articles in referred journals and conference proceedings with more than 19,000 Google Scholar citations, and has delivered more than 340 invited and keynote lectures. She was awarded GT Outstanding Faculty Mentor for Undergrad Research, and EU MilliPub Award for a high-impact paper cited over 1,000 times. Dr. Wang is the Senior Editor for IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (JBHI), an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on BME and IEEE Reviews in BME, and a panelist for NIH CDMA Study Section, NSF Smart and Connect Health, and Brain Canada. Her research has been supported by NIH, NSF, CDC, Georgia Research Alliance, Georgia Cancer Coalition, Shriners’ Children, Children’s Health Care of Atlanta, Enduring Heart Foundation, Coulter Foundation, Imlay Foundation, Carol Ann and David Flanagan Foundation, Horizon Europe, Microsoft Research, HP, UCB, and Amazon.

Affiliations

Fellows of AMIA (FAMIA)

FAMIA stands for “Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association” and it recognizes the contributions and professional accomplishments of AMIA members who apply informatics skills and knowledge to their practice – be that in a clinical setting, a public or population health capacity, or as a clinical researcher.

Year Inducted
2026
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