About

Dr. Aidong Zhang's research focuses on developing machine learning approaches to interpretable and fair learning, concept-based learning, federated learning, and generative AI. She also works on large language models for hypothesis generations for scientific discovery. Dr. Zhang is Thomas M. Linville Professor of Computer Science, with a joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and School of Data Science at University of Virginia. Her research interests focus on machine learning, data mining, bioinformatics and health informatics. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Purdue University.

Dr. Zhang is an author of over 400 research publications in the areas of machine learning, data mining, bioinformatics, and health informatics.

Dr. Zhang is currently recruiting Graduate Research Assistantships. Interested students please contact Dr. Zhang for further information.