Directory
This Directory includes Faculty, Staff, Students, and Alumni selectable by category, search or alphabetical by last name. Over 110 students have graduated from the Department of Biomedical Informatics (25+ PhD, 50+ MS, 25+ Certificate). The diversity of careers available to DBMI alumnus is evident in their biographies. Many of our graduates are teaching and performing research in academic institutions, such as Vanderbilt University, Arizona State University, and New York University while others have entered private industry with companies such as Cerner Corporation and Boston Scientific; some have positions in government agencies, such as the NIH and AHRQ, while others are at major medical centers, serving in roles such as Chief Medical Information Officer. We maintain a database of the career paths of our graduates. If you are an alumnus, please contact us if you would like to submit or update information!
Xia Jiang
Biography
Titles:
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Informatics
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Member of UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
Faculty of Pitt Intelligent Systems Program,
CMU-Pitt Computational and Systems Biology PhD Program,
Pitt School of Computing and Information Science, and
Pitt Center for Causal Discovery
Applications of artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning, causal modeling and learning, and Bayesian networks in medicine and biology: clinical informatics, cancer and translational informatics, prediction, clinical decision support, biomarker/risk factor/causal discovery, decision support in kidney transplant, epistasis and interaction learning, big data science, design and development of computational algorithms, signal transduction pathways and networks, systems and spatial biology, and breast cancer.