CV
Curriculum vitae of Dr. Lu (Eric) Zhang
General Information
| Full Name | Lu (Eric) Zhang |
| Position | Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University |
| Address | DLB 629, Level 6, David C. Lam Building, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong |
| Tel | (852) 3411-5880 |
| ericluzhang@hkbu.edu.hk |
Work Experience
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2024 - now Associate Professor (with tenure)
Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Department of Computer Science - Early promotion
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2019 - 2024 Assistant Professor
Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong Department of Computer Science -
2014 - 2017 Honorary Research Officer
Imperial College London, UK Department of Medicine -
2008 - 2010 Research Assistant
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Education
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2016 - 2019 Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford University, USA Department of Computer Science and Department of Pathology - Supervisors: Prof. Serafim Batzoglou and Prof. Arend Sidow
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2016 Postdoctoral Scholar
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Department of Computer Science - Supervisor: Prof. Shuaicheng Li
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2015 Visiting PhD Student
UC Berkeley, USA Department of Mathematics - Supervisor: Prof. Stephen Smale
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2012 - 2016 PhD in Computer Science
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Department of Computer Science - Supervisor: Prof. Shuaicheng Li
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2010 - 2012 MPhil in Bioinformatics
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine - Supervisor: Prof. Wanling Yang
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2004 - 2008 BEng in Software Engineering
Tianjin University, Tianjin, China School of Software Engineering
Research Interests
- Multi-Agent Systems for Biomedical Research
- AI for Science
- Deep Learning for Single-Cell and Spatial Multi-Omics Data
- AI for Genomics, Microbiology and Metabolomics
- Large Language Models for Healthcare and Scientific Research
- AI for Traditional Chinese Medicine
Awards and Honors
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2025 - Best Research Award, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University
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2024 - Excellent Paper Award, Faculty of Science, Hong Kong Baptist University
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2023 - President's Award for Outstanding Performance as Early Career Researcher, Hong Kong Baptist University
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2022 - Best Teaching Award, Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University
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2015 - Travel Grants for Exchange Activities of Research Students, City University of Hong Kong
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2012 - 2015 - University Postgraduate Fellowship, City University of Hong Kong
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2012 - Best Practice Award, Bio-IT World
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2010 - 2012 - University Postgraduate Fellowship, The University of Hong Kong
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2007 - Second Roll, Imagine Cup
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2003 - First-class Prize, China Adolescents Science and Technology Innovation Competition
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1998 - First-class Prize, China Adolescents Science and Technology Innovation Competition
Departmental and University Service
- Associate Program Director of BSc (Hons) in Computer Science (2025 - now)
- Department UoA coordinator of Research Assessment Exercise 2026
- Program management committee member of BSc (Hons) in Computer Science (2022 - now)
- Program management committee member of MSc in Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (2022 - now)
- Program management committee member of MSc in Information Technology Management (2022 - now)
- Program management committee member of BSc (Hons) in Innovation in Health/Well Being (2022 - 2024)
- Department Coordinator of Computer Facility (2023 - 2025)
Conference Organization and Committees
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Organization Chair
- "Algorithmic Advances for Single-Cell and Spatial Omics Data Analysis" workshop, BIBM 2026
- "Algorithmic Advances for Single-Cell and Spatial Omics Data Analysis" workshop, BIBM 2025
- "Computational methods to characterize genomic variants using high-throughput sequencing data" workshop, BIBM 2022
- "Computational methods and their applications on single cell multiomic data" workshop, BIBM 2021
- Organization committee member, 2019 International Symposium on Digital Health
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Area Chair and Reviewer
- Area Chair, ACM-BCB 2025
- NeurIPS workshop reviewer (2025, 2026)
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Program Committee Member
- BIBM (2020 - 2026), ISBRA (2020 - 2026), GIW (2023, 2025, 2026)
- IJCAI (2020, 2021), ICHI (2020, 2021), BDAI 2020
- ICBBS 2024, ISDH 2019, ICBPB 2019
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Working Groups
- AI leader and co-founder of ADVANCED (AI-empowered DeVelopment and AssessmeNt of medical guidElines and stanDards) working group
- Member of international RIGHT (Reporting Items for Practice Guidelines in HealThcare) working group
- Member of PREPARE (Practice Guideline Registration and Transparency) platform working group
- Member of STAR (Scientific, Transparent and Applicable Rankings tool) working group
Editorial Roles
- Editor-in-Chief, AI Evidence-Based Medicine
- Editorial Board Member, BMC Methods
- Editorial Board Member, Current Gene Therapy
- Guest Editor, Life, Advances in Computational Genomics, 2022
- Guest Editor, Health Information Science and Systems, Integrative Multi-omics for Human Health and Disease Studies, 2022
- Guest Editor, Frontiers in Genetics, Predicting High-Risk Individuals for Common Diseases Using Multi-Omics and Epidemiological Data II, 2022
- Guest Editor, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, Computational Solutions for Microbiome and Metagenomics Sequencing Analyses II, 2021
- Guest Editor, Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, Computational Solutions for Microbiome and Metagenomics Sequencing Analyses I, 2020
- Guest Editor, Frontiers in Genetics, Predicting High-Risk Individuals for Common Diseases Using Multi-Omics and Epidemiological Data I, 2019
Journal Reviewer
- Nature Methods, Nature Communications, Genome Biology, Genome Research, Genome Medicine, National Science Review
- Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics, GigaScience, Bioinformatics, Briefings in Bioinformatics, iScience
- npj Precision Oncology, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Frontiers in Genetics
- Knowledge-Based Systems, Aging, Computational Biology and Chemistry, and others