Yuji Zhang, PhD

Dr. Yuji Zhang, PhD, FAMIA, is a Professor and Lead Bioinformatician at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She also serves as Co-Chair of the Informatics Working Group for the My Healthy Maryland Research Program. Dr. Zhang’s primary research focuses on developing translational biostatistics and informatics methodologies to uncover novel mechanisms of human disease. She has extensive collaborative experience spanning medical informatics, ontology development, software engineering, and biomedical sciences. Her research mission is to bridge the gap between the analytical demands of multi-source biological “big data” and advanced informatics approaches to enable data-driven discovery in biomedicine. Dr. Zhang has served as co-principal investigator and co-investigator on numerous federally funded research projects across diverse disease domains, leading bioinformatics and statistical analyses. She is deeply committed to mentorship, having guided numerous graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, and has organized or chaired multiple international informatics workshops since 2012.