Professional Service

Service to the Profession

Editorial Board / Associate Editorship

• Editorial Board Member, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2018 - present

• Editorial Board Member, BMC Digital Health, 2022 - present

• Academic Editor, PLOS ONE, 2022 - present

• Associate Editor, Smart Health, 2023 - present

• Associate Editor,  Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research, 2023 - present

• Editorial Board Member, Social Science Computer Review, 2023 - present

Grant Reviewer

• National Institutes of Health, Clinical Informatics and Digital Health (CIDH) panel (R01), February 2024

• National Insitute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) / National Institutes of Health, Special Emphasize Panel for Investigator-Initiated Program Project Applications (P01), December 2023

• National Institutes of Health, Clinical Informatics and Digital Health (CIDH) panel (R01), June 2023

• National Institutes of Health,  Special Emphasize Panel (ZRG1 CCHI-X (57)) on Mobile Health Technology and Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (R21/R33), March 2023.

• National Science Foundation, 2021

• Canada Foundation for Innovation, 2020

• University of Florida Clinical and Translational Science Institute, 2020

• Office of Research Development, Florida State University,  2018

• Kentucky Science & Engineering Foundation, 2017

Professional Association

• Awards Committee Member, American Medical Informatics Association

• Chair of the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Working Group (2025-2026), American Medical Informatics Association

• Chair-Elect of the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Working Group (2024), American Medical Informatics Association

• Vice Chair of the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Working Group (2023), American Medical Informatics Association

• Secretary of the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Working Group (2020-2022), American Medical Informatics Association

Guest Editor of Journal Issues

1. Special Issue Editor, Journal of Preventional Medicine special issue on "Artificial Intelligence and Data Integration in Precision Health".

2. Guest Editor, Frontier in Medicine "Implementation of AI and Machine Learning Technologies in Medicine".

3. Lead Guest Editor, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence "Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Critical Healthcare Applications". (Deadline: December 19, 2021) (Editing with Drs. Rui Zhang, Gayo Giallo, Zhengxing Huang, Benjamin Glicksberg)

4. Guest Editor, Information Processing and Management, "Health informatics in China: Local practices with global implications" (Guest editing with Drs. Yuxiang Zhao, Yan Zhang, and Qinghua Zhu)

5. Lead Guest Editor, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making supplement: "Selected articles from the Fourth International Workshop on Semantics-Powered Data Analytics" (Guest editing with Drs. Cui Tao, Jiang Bian, and Rui Zhang)

6. Lead Guest Editor, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making supplement: "Selected articles from the Third International Workshop on Semantics-Powered Data Analytics" (Guest editing with Drs. Cui Tao, Jiang Bian, and Rui Zhang)

7. Lead Guest Editor, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making supplement: "Selected Extended Articles from the 2nd International Workshop on Semantics-Powered Data Analytics" (Guest editing with Drs. Cui Tao, Jiang Bian, Rui Zhang, and Jingshan Huang)

8. Guest Editor, Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing Special Issue on "Natural Language Processing Empowered Mobile Computing" (Guest editing with Drs. Tianyong Hao, Raymond Wong, Haoran Xie, Tak-Lam Wong, and Fu Lee Wang)

9. Lead Guest Editor,  Journal of Healthcare Engineering Special Issue on "Semantic-Powered Healthcare Engineering and Data Analytics" (Guest editing with Drs. Cui Tao, Michel Dumontier, Jiang Bian, and William Hogan)

Conference/Workshop Organizer

• General Chair, The 12th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2024)

• Chair, 2023 AMIA Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Student Innovation Award Competition

• Program Co-Chair, The 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE 2024) (Co-Chair: Ye Sun) 

• Program Co-Chair, The 7th International Workshop on Semantics-Powered Health Data Analytics (SEPDA 2023), in  conjunction with the 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2023) (General Chairs:  Jiang Bian, Yi Guo, PC Chairs: Zhe He, Cui Tao, Publication Chair: Rui Zhang)

• Leading Co-Chair, 2022 AMIA Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Student Innovation Award Competition

• Co-Chair, 2021 AMIA Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Student Innovation Award Competition

• Lead Co-Chair, The 6th International Workshop on Semantics-Powered Health Data Analytics (SEPDA 2021), in  conjunction with the 18th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2021) (Co-Chairs:  Jiang Bian, Cui Tao, and Rui Zhang)

• Co-Organizer, Collaborative Workshop for AMIA 2021: Bridging the Gap Between Data and Knowledge to Improve Deep Learning Model (Co-organizers: Lixia Yao, Ying Li, and Fei Wang)

• Chair, 2020 AMIA Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Student Innovation Award Competition

• Lead Co-Chair, The 5th International Workshop on Semantics-Powered Data Analytics (SEPDA 2020), in conjunction with 2020 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2020), December 16-19, 2020.  (Co-Chairs:  Jiang Bian, Cui Tao, and Rui Zhang)

• Lead Co-Chair, The 4th International Workshop on Semantics-Powered Data Analytics (SEPDA 2019), in conjunction with 18th International Conference on Semantic Web (ISWC 2019), October 26-30, 2019, Aukland, New Zealand.  (Co-Chairs:  Jiang Bian, Cui Tao, and Rui Zhang)

• Tutorial Co-Chair, The Seventh IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2019), June 10-13, 2019, Beijing, China

• Lead Co-Chair, The 3rd International Workshop on Semantics-Powered Data Analytics (SEPDA 2018), in conjunction with  2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2018), December 3, 2018, Madrid, Spain.  (Co-Chairs:  Jiang Bian, Cui Tao, and Rui Zhang)

• Lead Co-Chair, The 2nd International Workshop on Semantics-Powered Data Analytics (SEPDA 2017), in conjunction with 2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2017), November 13, 2017, Kansas City, Missouri.  (Co-Chairs:  Cui Tao, Rui Zhang, Jingshan Huang, and Jiang Bian)

• Lead Co-Chair, The 1st International Workshop on Semantics-Powered Data Analytics (SEPDA 2016), in conjunction with the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2016), December 15, 2016, Shenzhen, China. (Co-Chairs: Cui Tao, Michel Dumontier, and Jiang Bian)

Program Committee Member 

• The 22nd International Conference of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2024)

• The 11th IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics (ICHI 2023)

• 2023 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2023)

• The 2023 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2023)

• 2023 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2023)

• 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2022)

• The 2022 ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)

• First International Workshop on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (XAI-Healthcare), in conjunction with AIME 2021.

• The 2021 ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)

• 2021 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2021)

• AMIA 2021 Informatics Summit

• 2021 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2021)

• 2020 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2020)

• The 2020 ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)

• International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM2020) 

• 2020 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME 2020)

• The 6th International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare (DMAH 2020), in conjunction with VLDB 2020

• The 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2020)

• AMIA 2020 Informatics Summit

• The 28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2019)

• 2019 IEEE International Conference on on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2019)

• The 5th International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare (DMAH 2019)

• The 17th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 2019 (AIME 2019)

• AMIA 2018 Knowledge Representation and Semantics Working Group Pre-Symposium

• The Fourth International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare (DMAH 2018). in conjunction with VLDB 2018

• 2018 Symposium on Information Management and Big Data (SIMBig 2018)

• Pervasive Health and Personalised Medicine Crossroads: Challenges and Opportunities (Pervasive PerMed)

• 2018 IEEE International Conference on on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2018)

• AMIA 2018 Annual Symposium (AMIA 2018) 

• ACM Symposium on Applied Computing 2018 - Computational Methods in Population Health (CMPH)

• The 3rd China Conference on Health Information Processing (CHIP 2017)

• The Third International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare (DMAH 2017). in conjunction with VLDB 2017

• 2017 IEEE International Conference on on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2017)

• 2017 Symposium on Information Management and Big Data (SIMBig 2017)

• The 6th International Conference on Health Information Science (HIS 2017)

• 2016 International Workshop on Vaccine and Drug Ontology Studies (VDOS 2017)

• The Third International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare

• Artificial Intelligence in Medicine 2017 (AIME 2017)

• AMIA 2017 Annual Symposium (AMIA 2017)

• IEA/AIE 2017 Special Track on Intelligent Systems in Healthcare and mHealth for Health Outcomes

• 2016 International Workshop on Vaccine and Drug Ontology Studies (VDOS 2016), in conjunction with ICBO 2016

• The Second International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare (DMAH 2016). in conjunction with VLDB 2016

• The 5th International Conference on Health Information Science (HIS 2016)

• 2015 International Workshop on Vaccine and Drug Ontology Studies (VDOS 2015), in conjunction with ICBO 2015

• The 6th International Workshop on Semantic Web Information Management (SWIM 2014), in conjunction with SIGMOD 2014

• 2014 International Workshop on Vaccine and Drug Ontology Studies (VDOS 2014), in conjunction with ICBO 2014

Editorial Committee Member

• Assistant Editor, Proceedings of the 17th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics (MEDINFO 2019)

• Assistant Editor, Proceedings of the 16th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics (MEDINFO 2017)

• Assistant Editor, Proceedings of the 15th World Congress on Health and Biomedical Informatics (MEDINFO 2015)

Session Chair

• The 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2016) (IGNITE Sessions of Biomedical and Health Informatics: WeCT16, FrCT19)

• AMIA 2015 Summit on Clinical Research Informatics (CRI-30: Ontology-based Semantic Methods)

Journal Reviewer

• Ophthalmology Science, 2023 - present

• NPJ Aging (IF: 5.0), 2023 - present

• American Journal of Transplantation (IF: 9.369), 2023 - present

• Scientific Data (IF: 8.501), 2023 - present

• Nature Medicine (IF: 53.44), 2022 - present

• Genes & Diseases (IF: 7.103), 2022 - present

• Library and Information Science Research (IF: 3.06), 2021-present

• Scientometrics (IF: 3.72), 2021-present

• Expert Systems with Applications, 2021-present

• Patterns, 2021-present

• Neural Computing and Applications (IF: 4.78), 2020 - present

• Translational Behavioral Medicine (IF: 2.237), 2019 - present

• Journal of Clinical Epidemiology (IF: 4.25), 2019 - present

• Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (IF: 2.88), 2019 - present

• NPJ Digital Medicine (IF: 11.65), 2019 - present

• Frontiers in Pharmacology (IF: 3.83), 2018 - present

• BMJ Quality & Safety (IF: 7.226),  2018 - present

• International Journal of Pharmaceutics (IF: 3.862), 2018 - present

• Health Communication (IF: 1.710), 2018 - present

• Health Informatics Journal (IF: 1.833), 2018 - present

• Journal of Healthcare Informatics Research, 2018 - present

• International Journal of Medical Informatics (IF: 2.957), 2018 - present

• JAMIA Open, 2017 - present

• IEEE Access (IF: 3.557), 2017 - present

• Knowledge and Data Engineering (IF: 1.467), 2017 - present

• International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics (IF: 0.624), 2017 - present

• BMJ Open (IF: 2.413), 2017 - present

• Cogent Business and Management, 2017 - present

• Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (IF: 4.270), 2017 - present

• JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 2017 - present

• Cogent Medicine, 2017 - present

• Informatics, 2017 - present

• JMIR Medical Informatics, 2017 - present

• Health Information Science and Systems  2017 - present

• International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IF: 1.50), 2017 - present

• BMC Research Notes, 2016 - present

• Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (IF: 2.835), 2016 - present

• Journal of Medical Internet Research (IF: 4.671), 2016 - present

• Applied Clinical Informatics (IF: 1.138), 2016 - present

• BioData Mining (IF: 1.875), 2016 - present

• PLOS One (IF: 2.766), 2016 - present

• Semantic Web Journal (IF: 2.224), 2015 - present

• BMC Medical Informatics & Decision Making (IF: 2.134), 2015 - present

• Intelligence Automation & Soft Computing, 2015 - present

• Journal of Biomedical Semantics (IF: 1.600), 2014 - present

• Journal of Biomedical Informatics (IF: 2.882), 2014 - present

• Methods of Information in Medicine (IF: 1.531), 2013 - present

Conference Reviewer 

• AMIA 2021 Annual Symposium

• iConference 2021

• iConference 2019

• 2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2018)

• The 9th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (BCB 2018)

• AMIA 2018 Informatics Summits

• 2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2017)

• 2017 Symposium on Information Management and Big Data (SIMBig 2017)

• The 6th International Conference on Health Information Science (HIS 2017)

• The 16th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics (MEDINFO 2017)

• AMIA 2017 Joint Summits on Translational Science

• International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM 2016)

• The 5th International Conference on Health Information Science (HIS 2016)

• AMIA 2016 Annual Symposium (AMIA 2016)

• AMIA 2016 Joint Summits on Translational Science

• AMIA 2015 Annual Symposium (AMIA 2015)

• The 15th World Congress on Health and Biomedical Informatics (MEDINFO 2015)

• The 6th International Conference on Biomedical Ontology (ICBO 2015)

• AMIA 2015 Joint Summits on Translational Science

• The 5th International Conference on Biomedical Ontologies (ICBO 2014)

• The 25th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2014)

• AMIA 2014 Annual Symposium (AMIA 2014)

• AMIA 2014 Joint Summits on Translational Science

• AMIA 2013 Annual Symposium (AMIA 2013)

Workshop Reviewer 

• 2016 International Workshop on Vaccine and Drug Ontology Studies (VDOS 2017)

• IEA/AIE 2017 Special Track on Intelligent Systems in Healthcare and mHealth for Health Outcomes

• The Second International Workshop on Data Management and Analytics for Medicine and Healthcare (DMAH 2016). 

• The First International Workshop on Biomedical Data Integration and Discovery (BMDID 2016)

• 2016 International Workshop on Vaccine and Drug Ontology Studies (VDOS 2016)

• 2015 International Workshop on Biomedical Data Mining, Modeling, and Semantic Integration

• 2015 International Workshop on Vaccine and Drug Ontology Studies (VDOS 2015)

• 2014 International Workshop on Vaccine and Drug Ontology Studies (VDOS 2014)

Conference Volunteer

• The 34th ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD 2013)

• AMIA 2010 Annual Symposium (AMIA 2010)

Services at Florida State University

Services to Florida State University

• Member, FSU Health Data Science Initiative Steering Committee, 2022 - present

• Member, FSU Health Working Group, 2022 - present

• Management Board Member, FSU Research Computing Center, 2021 - present

• Informatics Lead, UF-FSU Clinical and Translational Science Award, 2019 - present

• BIRD Team Lead, UF-FSU Clinical and Translational Science Award, 2020 - present

Services to the College of Communication and Information

• Subject Matter Expert of Health Sciences, College of Communication and Information, 2022 - present

• Member, Promotion & Tenure Committee, College of Communication and Information, 2022 - 2023

• Member, Academic Affairs Committee, College of Communication and Information, 2017 - 2020

Services to the School of Information

• Program Chair, MSIT, 2019 - 2024

• Chair, Ad Hoc Research Committee, School of Information, 2022 - 2023

• Member, Evaluation, Promotion & Tenure Committee, School of Information, 2021 - 2023

• Member, Education Committee, School of Information, 2018 - Present

• Member, Operation Committee, School of Information, 2018 - 2019

• Member, Outreach Committee, School of Information, 2016

• Member, Faculty Search Committee, School of Information, 2016, 2017

• Member, Research Committee, School of Information, 2015 - 2018

Service to New Jersey Institute of Technology

• President, Sigma Chapter of Alpha Epsilon Lambda National Honor Society, 2013-2014

• President, Graduate Student Association, 2013

• Vice President - Admin, Graduate Student Association, 2012-2013

• Member, Administration Affairs Council, 2013

• Member, Committee on Academic Affairs, 2013

• Member, Committee on University Awards, Lectures, and Commencement, 2013

• Member, Shared Governance Steering Committee, 2012-2013

• President, Chinese Student and Scholar Association, 2011-2012