Chi Zhang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Bioengineering
Dr. Chi Zhang is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and a member of the Center for Biomedical Data Science, Brenden-Colson Center for Pancreatic Care, and Knight Cancer Institute at OHSU. Dr. Zhang received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Peking University in 2010 and a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from the University of Georgia with a minor in Statistics in 2015. He joined Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM) as an assistant professor in 2016. He was promoted to tenured associate professor in 2022, associated director of the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics in 2023, and then joined OHSU in 2024.
Dr. Chi Zhang's research focuses on studying the mathematical representations of biological processes, relations, and functions in omics data; developing new systems biology models and AI methods to enable in silico simulation and perturbation analysis of disease systems; understanding biochemical and metabolic variations in the microenvironment of different diseases; and developing explainable and fair AI models for biomedical data. Dr. Zhang received the NSF Career Award, the American Cancer Society Research Scholar Award, and the NIH NIGMS Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) (R35). Dr. Zhang also leads the bioinformatics and biostatistics analysis in the DHART SPORE and Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma Stromal Reprogramming Consortium.
Education
Ph.D. Bioinformatics with a secondary Master’s degree in statistics
Advisor: Dr. Ying Xu.
The University of Georgia, Athens, GA (2010.9-2015.11)
Thesis: Identification of the key micro-environmental alterations, genomic alterations and their associations in cancer initiation and progression
B.S. Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics
Peking University, Beijing, China (2006.9-2010.7)
WORKING EXPERIENCE
2024.7-now
2022.7-2023.6
2016.8-2022.6
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Oregon Health & Science University, Department of Biomedical Engineering
IU School of Medicine, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics
IU School of Medicine, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics