A Brief Biography of Prof. Jake Y. Chen
Dr. Jake Y. Chen is the Chief Bioinformatics Officer at UAB Informatics Institute and a Professor of Genetics, Computer Science, and Biomedical Engineering. Previously, he was the founding director of Indiana Center for Systems Biology and Personalized Medicine. He has over 25 years of R&D experience in biological data mining and systems biology, with over 170 peer-reviewed publications. He is currently President-elect of the Midsouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society and an elected fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. He also serves on the editorial boards of BMC Bioinformatics and Journal of American Medical Informatics Association. In 2019, he was recognized by Deep Knowledge Analytics as one of the “Top 100 AI Leaders in Drug Discovery and Healthcare”.