Research Program and Theme
- Program: Cancer Technology and Data Science
- Theme: Computational Engineering and Data Science
Research Focus
Sihai Dave Zhao conducts methodological research to develop rigorous statistical techniques for analyzing large-scale data from high-throughput genetics and genomics experiments. His current work centers on procedures for the integrative analysis of multiple omics datasets across different subjects, phenotypes, modalities, and species to achieve more powerful and accurate inference and prediction. Zhao has developed procedures for network estimation, variable selection, and predictive modeling using high-dimensional genomic predictors. He is Senior Personnel in the KnowEnG Center at the University of Illinois, an NIH-funded Big Data to Knowledge Center, where he works on methods for learning genetic epistasis networks.
Other Campus Affiliations
- Associate Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
- Associate Professor, Bioengineering
- Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
- Director of Computational Genomics, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology