Jiajie Zhang, Ph.D., says advances in Big Data are helping health care workers develop new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat life-threatening diseases. In addition, Big Data is driving adverse medical events down and health care efficiency up.
Jiajie Zhang, Ph.D.
Dean
Dr. Doris L. Ross Professor
The Glassell Family Foundation Distinguished Chair in Informatics Excellence
UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics
Where medicine is today is similar to where we were in the 1990s when the Internet revolution began. We are in the middle of another revolution, the Big Data revolution, and our school is a major player in the field of medicine. We could be a small entity like what Google was some years ago, but we are rapidly growing so you never know where we can go.
Hiring a lot of faculty who are smarter than me and who are the top thought leaders in informatics across the country.
The Big Data revolution will change everything and we cannot find enough time to do everything we need to do. Everything is happening in real time and there are a lot of changes being brought on by technological advances.
I never went to high school because I enrolled in a special program in a university in China that offers an accelerated curriculum for young STEM students, so I started college when I was 15. I joke by saying I never had a high school sweetheart.
A stand-alone building for the School of Biomedical Informatics.
Becoming a Texan. I have spent more than half of my life in the U.S. and more than half of my time in the U.S. has been in Texas. By definition, I am a Texan now. I was told everyone wears cowboy boots but they don’t.
Richard Feynman, Ph.D., is a physicist and a Noble Laureate. I read his biography called "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" and the biggest thing I learned from him is that doing science is like playing a game or completing a puzzle. By using the first principle, you can discover everything for yourself.