Biography:
W. Jim Zheng, PhD, MS, is a professor at the McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston, where he develops artificial intelligence methods for neuroscience and biomedical discovery. His work spans deep learning, large language models, and biological data modeling, including AI approaches for drug combinations, protein structure, and brain-cell annotation. His team earned 2nd place in both the 2021 DrugProt BioCreative VII Large Scale Track and the 2022 NIH/NCATS LitCoin NLP Challenge. Dr. Zheng is an NIH BRAIN Initiative-funded MPI, leveraging AI to study brain-cell types and gene networks across human and mouse brain atlases
Title : From ontology fingerprints to BRAINCELL-AID: Literature-driven gene function and brain cell annotation