Scholar
Degui Zhi
Google Scholar ID: 9dmZ3lkAAAAJ
Department Chair, Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Citations & Impact
Citations
6,919
H-index
37
i10-index
95
Publications
20
Co-authors
26
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Developed Med-BERT: a clinical foundation model for structured clinical data
- Developed gene2vec: a distributed representation embedding model for genes based on co-expression patterns
- Created several unsupervised deep learning models for deriving endophenotypes from imaging data for genetic discovery
- Developed advanced PBWT-based data structures and algorithms for population genetics informatics
- Secured over $20 million in PI/MPI grant funding
- Elected Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI)
Background
- Founding Chair of the Department of Bioinformatics and Systems Medicine, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics (MSBMI) at UTHealth Houston
- Glassell Family Professor
- Founding Director of the Center for AI and Genome Informatics (AIGI)
- Research interests focus on developing AI deep learning and informatics methods for biomedical big data
- His team has developed multiple generalist deep learning frameworks for biobank-scale biomedical data
- Actively exploring the use of LLMs and generative AI for scientific discovery
- Has taught the first deep learning course at the Texas Medical Center since 2018
- Elected Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI)
