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May Dongmei WANG
FAIMBE, FIAMBE, FIEEE, FKavli Fellow
The Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Fellow
Professor and Director of Biomedical Big Data,
Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University
TOPIC：
Advancing Biomedical AI for Addressing Global Health Challenge
BIO：
Dr. May Dongmei WANG is Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Fellow and full professor in BME and ECE at Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) and Emory University (EU). She is Director of Biomedical Big Data Initiative, Georgia Distinguished Cancer Scholar, Petit Institute Faculty Fellow, Kavli Fellow, AIMBE Fellow, IAMBE Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and Board of Directors in American Board of AI in Medicine. Her research is in Biomedical Big Data with AI-Driven Intelligent Reality (IR) for predictive, personalized, and precision health (pHealth). During 20+ years academic professorship and ~4 years industrial research, she published 260+ articles in referred journals and conference proceedings and delivered 250+ invited and keynote lectures. Dr. WANG received BEng from Tsinghua University China, and MS with PhD degrees from GT. She is a recipient of GT Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, and EU MilliPub Award (for a high-impact paper that is cited over 1,000 times).
Dr. WANG is the Senior Editor for IEEE Journal of Biomedical & Health Informatics (J-BHI, Impact Factor 7.02), an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions for BME, and IEEE Reviews for BME, a panelist for NIH CDMA Study Section, NSF Smart and Connect Health, Brain Canada, and multiple European countries. She was 2016 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Annual Conference Co-Chair, 2014-2015 EMBS Distinguished Lecturer and Emerging Area Editor for Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Dr. Wang has helped grow Biomedical and Health Informatics (BHI) community since 2012 and is chair for IEEE Biomedical and Health Informatics Technical Community. She currently serves in IEEE Future Directions Committee and International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE) Executive Committee. At Georgia Institute of Technology (GT), Dr. WANG is in 2022 President Leading Women Program and 2021 Provost Emerging Leaders Program, and is 2018-2021 Carol Ann and David Flanagan Distinguished Faculty Fellow. She was 2015-2017 GT Biomedical Informatics Program Co-Director in Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute (ACTSI), and was Director of Bioinformatics and Biocomputing Core in NIH/NCI-sponsored U54 Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, and Co-Director of GT Center of Bio-Imaging Mass Spectrometry for over 10 years. Dr. WANG’s research has been supported by NIH, NSF, CDC, Georgia Research Alliance, Georgia Cancer Coalition, Shriners’ Hospitals for Children, Children’s Health Care of Atlanta, Enduring Heart, Coulter Foundation, Microsoft Research, HP, UCB, and Amazon
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