Title: Professor
Program: Computer Science
Office: CAS 238
Phone: 330-972-6773
Email: duan@uakron.edu
Website: https://www.cs.uakron.edu/~duan/
Biography
Dr. Z.H. Duan (senior personnel, trainer) joined the Department of Computer Science at The University of Akron in Fall 2001 and is a Professor of Computer Science in the College of Engineering and Polymer Science. She has been teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses in Computer Science and developed courses in data science and machine learning including Applied Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, and Graph Analytics. Dr. Duan graduated 2 PhD and 21 MS students. Many of her students worked on cross discipline machine learning research. And she served as a member of many graduate committees. Dr. Duan has been a faculty member in the integrated bioscience Ph.D. program.
Research Interests
Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Data Analytics, and Machine Learning
Publications
Haitao Zhao, Sujay Datta, and Zhong-Hui Duan, An Integrated Approach of Learning Genetic Networks from Genome-Wide Gene Expression Data Using Gaussian Graphical Model and Monte Carlo Method, Bioinformatics and Biology Insights, Vol. 17, Article1177/11779322231152972, 2023.
Yao Luo, Zhong-Hui Duan, Jinhui Tang, Bi-Branch Network for Dynamic Scene Deblurring, Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 202, Article 103100, 2021.
Haitao Zhao and Zhong-Hui Duan, Cancer Gene Expression Network Inference Using Gaussian Graphical Models, Bioinformatics and Biology Insights, Vol. 13, Article 1177932219839402, 2019.
Anthony Deeter, Mark Dalman, Joseph Haddad, Zhong-Hui Duan, Inferring Gene and Protein Interactions Using Pubmed Citations and Consensus Bayesian Networks, PLoS One, 12(10):e0186004, 2017.
Mark R Dalman, Anthony Deeter, Gayathri Nimishakavi, Zhong-Hui Duan, Fold Change And P-Value Cutoffs Significantly Alter Microarray Interpretations, BMC Bioinformatics,13 Suppl 2(Suppl 2):S11, 2012.
Mihir S Sewak, Narender P Reddy, Zhong-Hui Duan, Gene Expression Based Leukemia Sub-classification using Committee Neural Networks, Bioinformatics and Biology Insights, 3:89-98, 2009.
Adarsh Jose, Dale Mugler, Zhong-Hui Duan, A Gene Selection Method for Classifying Cancer Samples Using 1-D Discrete Wavelet Transform, International Journal of Computational Biology and Drug Design, 2:398-411, 2009.
Zhong-Hui Duan, Brent Hughes, Lothar Reichel, Dianne. M. Perez, and Ting Shi, The Relationship between Protein Sequences and their Gene Ontology Functions, BMC Bioinformatics, 7:S13, 2006.
Zhong-Hui Duan, Robert Krasny, An Ewald Summation Based Multipole Method, Journal of Chemical Physics, 113: 3492-3495, 2000.
Zhong-Hui Duan, Louis N. Howard, A Modified Gambler’s Ruin Model, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 93: 10007-10011, 1996.
Education
- PhD, Applied Math, Florida State University, 1997
- MS, Computer Science, Florida State University, 1997
- BS, Applied Math, Chengdu University of Technology, China, 1982
Courses Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics, Graph Analytics, Applied Machine Learning