Ping Zhang — AboutBiographyPing Zhang is a tenured Full Professor at The Ohio State University (OSU), with joint appointments in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), and the Department of Biomedical Informatics (BMI). He leads the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIMed) Lab. He serves as the Division Chief of Artificial Intelligence in Digital Health (AIDH) at OSU and the Director of the AIDH Core at the OSU Wexner Medical Center (OSUWMC). From 2022 to 2026, he served as Vice Chair of Education at BMI, where he established the university's first education programs in Artificial Intelligence in Digital Health. Prior to Ohio State, he was a researcher at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. His research develops machine learning methods to determine which treatments work, for whom, and when. His lab advances multimodal LLMs, AI agents, and causal inference, and deploys the resulting systems in live hospital settings. Dr. Zhang has published over 150 papers and filed over 25 patents. He has received NSF CAREER award in 2022, IBM master inventor award in 2018, ESWC best in-use/industrial paper award in 2016, and AMIA Marco Ramoni distinguished paper nomination in 2014. His research has contributed to multiple AI products, including Watson for Drug Discovery, and Watson for Patient Safety. He received BS and MS in Computer Science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2004 and 2007, and PhD in Computer Science from Temple University in 2013. Dr. Zhang has served on the program committees of leading international conferences, including KDD, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, IJCAI and AAAI, and on the editorial boards of Transactions on Machine Learning Research, BMC Digital Health, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, CPT: Pharmacometrics & Systems Pharmacology and Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research. He is an elected Fellow of American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) and International Academy of Health Sciences and Informatics (IAHSI), a Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a Distinguished Speaker of Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Appointments
Education
|