NOTE: the website has moved to http://ruizhang.umn.edu
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Care & Health Systems in College of Pharmacy and the Institute for Health Informatics. I obtained my PhD degree in Health Informatics from the University of Minnesota in 2013, and Master’s degree in Informatics at the University of Iowa. My research interests are clinical natural language processing, text mining, literature-based discovery, translational informatics, machine learning, and statistic analysis.
Awards & Recognition
- 2017 – Principal Investigator on a 4-year (2017-2021) NIH R01 research project grant 1R01AT009457
- 2017 – PhD student’s paper won the second place in the Student Paper Competition, AMIA 2017 Joint Summits on Translational Science
- 2016 – Best Poster Award in BHI-2016 IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics
- 2016 – University of Minnesota Grant-In-Aid award
- 2015 – Nominated as Marco Ramoni Distinguished Paper Award for Translational Bioinformatics
- 2014 – University of Minnesota Informatics Institute (UMII) On the Horizon Award
- 2014 – Manuscript selected as Journal of Biomedical Informatics Editors’ Choice
- 2014 – Student Paper Competition Finalist, AMIA 2014 Joint Summits on Translational Science
- 2014 – Chair, American Medical Informatics Association Student Working Group
- 2013 – Fellowship of the International Partnership in Health Informatics Education (IPHIE)’s International Master Class for Medical Informatics, Copenhagen, Denmark
- 2013 – Student Paper Competition Finalist, The 14th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics (Medinfo 2013)
- 2013 – HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) Scholarship, Minnesota Chapter
- 2012 – Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota
- 2011 – Student Paper Competition Finalist, American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA)
- 2011 – Health Informatics Graduate Fellowship, Institute for Health Informatics, University of Minnesota
- 2011 – Fellowship of the International Partnership in Health Informatics Education (IPHIE)‘s International Master Class for Medical Informatics(University of Heidelberg-University of Heilbronn, Germany)
- 2010 – Health Informatics Graduate Fellowship, Institute for Health Informatics, University of Minnesota
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