Prof. ZHANG Weixiong appointed as Associate Director of PAIR

We are pleased to announce that Prof. ZHANG Weixiong, Chair Professor in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics in the Department of Health Technology and Informatics, has been appointed as Associate Director of PAIR, effective 1 August 2024.

Prof. Zhang is a Global STEM Scholar under the Global STEM Professorship of the HKSAR government. He is an expert in medical laboratory science, and his research interests include genetics/genomics, non-coding RNA, medical imaging, etiology and biomarkers, big data analytics and artificial intelligence. Prof. Zhang received his PhD in computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A. Before joining PolyU, he was a Professor in the Computer Science and Genetics Departments at Washington University in St. Louis, USA.