Associate Professor
Bio: Licong Cui, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth. She is also a member of the Center for Translational AI Excellence and Applications in Medicine (TEAM-AI) and the Texas Institute for Restorative Neurotechnologies (TIRN). Dr. Cui's primary research goal is to develop innovative informatics methods and tools to address data science challenges in biomedicine. Dr. Cui’s research interests include ontologies and terminologies, neuroinformatics, big data analytics, large-scale data integration and management, information extraction and information retrieval. Dr. Cui has published over 100 peer-reviewed research papers and served as the principal investigator for a number of grants funded by NIH and NSF. Dr. Cui was the 2022 recipient of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) New Investigator Award and a 2021 recipient of the NSF CAREER Award.