The Hu Lab
Artificial Intelligence for Health and Medicine
The Hu Lab
Artificial Intelligence for Health and Medicine
Welcome
Dr. Pingzhao Hu
Dr. Pingzhao Hu
Dr. Pingzhao Hu
Canada Research Chair in Computational Approaches to Health Research (Tier 2)
Associate Professor
Department of Biochemistry
Department of Computer Science
Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Department of Oncology
Western University
Associate Professor (Status-Only)
Division of Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
Associate Scientist
Children's Health Research Institute (CHRI) LAWSON Health Research Institute (LHRI)
Mentor of AI4PH (Artificial Intelligence for Public Health)
National Health Research Training Platform
Founding Member of VADA (Visual and automated disease analytics)
NSERC Collaborative Research and Training Experience (CREATE) Program
Member of Temerty Centre for AI Research and Education in Medicine (T-CAIREM)
Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Adjunct Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics (BMG),
Department of Computer Science (CS)
University of Manitoba
About us
Dr. Pingzhao Hu
Dr. Pingzhao Hu
The Hu lab focuses on developing and applying machine leaning and statistical techniques for integrative analysis of big multimodal health data (omics data, imaging data, administrative and electronic medical records) for precision medicine. Dr. Hu's research program builds the bridges between artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning, statistics and multimodal health data (mainly omics data). His research is performed in an independent, multidisciplinary and collaborative team framework where his expertise in AI, statistical genetics and bioinformatics complements that of his collaborators.
Dr. Hu is an
- Academic Editor
Plos Computational Biology
- Associate Editor
Annals of Medicine
- Associate Editor
Computational and Structural
Biotechnology Journal (CSBJ)
- Associate Editor
Frontiers in Genetics
Dr. Hu has received below prestigious awards since he became an independent investigator:
- Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (2022), Western University
- University of Manitoba Graduate Students’ Association (UMGSA) Teaching Award (2021), University of Manitoba
- Ed Kroeger Mentorship Award (2021), Health Sciences Graduate Student Association, University of Manitoba.
- The Manitoba Medical Services Foundation Allen Rouse Basic Science Career Scientist Award (2020-2023), Manitoba Medical Services Foundation.
- The 2019 Terry G. Falconer Memorial Rh Institute Foundation Emerging Researcher Award (Interdisciplinary Category, 2020), The Memorial Rh Institute Foundation, and The University of Manitoba.
- The Interstellar Initiative Award (2018), The New York Academy of Sciences and Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development.
- Careers in Cancer Research Development Program New Principal Investigator Award (2015), CIHR-CCSRI.
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Selected Grants
2024 Jan – 2025 Dec: Developing an artificial intelligence-based online tool for automatic joint detection and scoring of radiographic joint damage among patients with Rheumatoid arthritis using continual learning. Arthritis Society Canada, Ignite Innovation Grants, Nominated Principal Investigator
2023 Oct – 2028 Sep: A deep-learning approach to identify inhibitors of adherent-invasive Escherichia coli in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease. CIHR, 2023 Spring Project Grants, Nominated Principal Investigator
2023 Feb – 2025 Jan: Artificial intelligence-empowered approach towards the development of combination therapies for HER2+/ER+ breast cancer. CIHR, 2022 Fall Project Grants (Priority Grant), Nominated Principal Investigator
2021 Apr – 2026 Mar: Flexible and robust deep learning models for integrative analysis of single cell RNA sequencing data. Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Individual Discovery Grants, Nominated Principal Investigator
Western Bioinformatics Research Seminar Series