Prof Ping Zhang

Prof Ping Zhang

Associate Professor

Affiliation: Ohio State University

Biography

Dr. Ping Zhang is the Director of the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIMed) Lab at OSU. He is also the Director of Artificial Intelligence in Digital Health (AIDH) Core at OSU Wexner Medical Center. His research focuses on data mining, machine learning, and their applications to foundation models (e.g., large language models, large vision models, large multimodal models), trustworthy AI (e.g., explainability, robustness, causal inference, uncertainty quantification), computational medicine (e.g., predictive modeling, medical imaging, clinical NLP, real-world evidence, drug discovery & development). He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award in 2022 and the IBM Master Inventor Award in 2018. He is an AMIA Fellow, IAHSI Fellow, IEEE Senior Member, and ACM Distinguished Speaker.
Recruitment Status
AIMed Lab currently has openings for PhD students with research interests related to multimodal large language models (MLLMs) and deep learning in medicine.
AIMed Lab currently has openings for postdoctoral researchers with research interests related to human-computer interaction (HCI) and human-centered AI (HCAI).
Expertise
Data Mining
Machine Learning
Causal Learning
Trustworthy AI
Large Language Models
Large Multimodal Models
Human-Computer Interaction
AI in Medicine

Key Research Areas

  • Primary care and AI
  • Healthcare innovation
  • Global health