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Short Biography:
Dr. Ya Zhang is a Distinguished Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, where she serves as Vice Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence and Executive Vice Dean of the Institute of Medical Artificial Intelligence. A recipient of China’s National High-Level Talent Program, she also serves as Chief Scientist of the National 863 Program and Principal Investigator of the National Key R&D Project on New Generation Artificial Intelligence. Her research focuses on the intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare, particularly on medical foundation models, multimodal medical AI, and knowledge-driven intelligent systems that enhance interpretability and clinical reliability in medical decision-making.
Dr. Zhang earned her B.S. degree from Tsinghua University and Ph.D. in Information Sciences and Technology from The Pennsylvania State University. Prior to joining Shanghai Jiao Tong University, she was a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Kansas and a Senior Research Manager at Yahoo! Labs. She has authored more than 200 papers in leading journals and conferences, including IEEE TPAMI and Nature sub-journals, with over 18,000 citations, and several of her works have been recognized as ESI Highly Cited Papers. Her research has received multiple distinctions, including the First-Class Shanghai Science and Technology Invention Award and the 2019 EURASIP Best Paper Award from the European Association for Signal Processing. She also supervised a doctoral student who received the Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award from the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence.