Zhi Huang
Assistant Professor at University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhi Huang is an Assistant Professor and AI researcher with 11 years of experience building ML algorithms and software for translational biomedical problems, now leading lab work at the University of Pennsylvania after a postdoc at Stanford. His work spans foundation models, computational pathology/biology, and precision medicine, with practical systems such as TSUNAMI, Biolearns, and PathologyBrowser that demonstrate a commitment to usable bioinformatics tools. Zhi has developed novel survival-analysis algorithms (CoxNMF, SALMON) and clinical forecasting models, blending deep learning with domain-aware data reorganization to surface biologically meaningful insights. He is equally comfortable shipping web- and Python-based tooling and publishing methods, reflecting a rare mix of theory, engineering, and translational impact. Off the clock he jokes that Energy = milk × coffee², hinting at a caffeinated, productivity-oriented approach to research.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue UniversityNon degree exchange, Electronic Engineering, Non degree exchange, Electronic Engineering at University of Michigan-DearbornBachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Xi'an Jiaotong University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (51)
preprocessing10
survival-analysis10
machine-learning10
textual10
vision-and-language10
deep-learning10
clip10
large-language-models9
bioinformatics9
computational-biology9
medical-imaging9
image-analysis8
ai8
artificial-intelligence8
neural-network8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
huangzhii/biolearns
Feb 2020 - Oct 2022
BioLearns: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Toolbox in Python
Contributions:80 commits, 76 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
bioinformaticscomputational-biologypythonbioinformatics-tool
huangzhii/FCN-3D-pytorch
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
A 3D Fully Convolutional Nets implementation in pytorch
Contributions:10 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
3dpytorch
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