Rui Zhang, PhD, FAMIA

Rui Zhang, PhD, FAMIA is Professor and Founding Chief of Division of Computational Health Sciences and is named as McKnight Presidential Fellow (a distinguished professorship) at the UMN. He is the Director of Natural Language Processing/Information Extraction research program and Scientific Co-Director of Innovative Methods & Data Science program in the Center for Learning Health Systems Science. His research interests include development and applications of clinical natural language processing, text mining, literature-based discovery, complementary and alternative health informatics, nutrition informatics, and artificial intelligence approaches on real-world data. Dr. Zhang's key informatics contributions include (1) developing novel and generalizable NLP/LLM methods for clinical phenotyping, (2) creating foundational informatics resources for clinical research in dietary supplements, and (3) building informatics framework for complementary and integrative medicine for various clinical outcomes. His research has been supported by NCCIH, NIA, NCI, NIDDK, ODS, AHRQ, VA, CDC, and Industry (Medtronic, CISCO, etc). Dr. Zhang serves on multiple study sections and JAMIA Editorial Board, and currently Chair-Elect of AMIA NLP WG.