Qiang (Shawn) Cheng, Ph.D.

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Associate Editor

Term Expiration: 

12/31/2025

Affiliation(s): 

University of Kentucky College of Medicine

Areas of Interest: 

dementia, ageing, machine learning, biomedical informatics, data science

Biography & Research: 

Qiang Cheng received the BS and MS degrees from Peking University, China, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Currently, he is an associate professor at the Institute for Biomedical Informatics and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Kentucky. He previously worked as a faculty fellow at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson, OH, and a senior researcher and senior research scientist at Siemens Corporate Research and Siemens Medical Solutions, Siemens Corp., Princeton, NJ. His research interests include data science, machine learning, pattern recognition, and biomedical informatics. Supported by NSF, ARO, and NIH, he has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in various premium venues, including IEEE TPAMI, TNNLS, TSP, NIPS, CVPR, AAAI, ICDE, ACM TIST, TKDD, and KDD. He has a number of international patents issued or filed with the University of Kentucky, IBM T.J. Watson Research Laboratory, and Siemens Medical.