Funding
The lab's research program is supported by NIH-funded projects spanning Alzheimer's disease imaging genetics, human pangenomics, biobank-scale genome informatics, and clinical AI.
Human Pangenome Reference Consortium-related project
Pangenomic methods and scalable haplotype analysis
Supports development of efficient pangenome indexing, cross-population haplotype analysis, and scalable computational genomics methods.
Zhi, Fornage, Ji · 07/01/2021-06/30/2026
Genetics of deep-learning-derived neuroimaging endophenotypes for Alzheimer's Disease
Develops deep learning approaches for deriving AD-relevant endophenotypes from neuroimaging data and associating them with genetic data.
Role: Contact PI
Zhi, Zhang · 09/24/2021-08/31/2022
Genome Informatics for Biobank-scale Data
Develops informatics methods and tools to improve haplotype phasing, genotype imputation, and relatedness inference.
Role: Contact PI
Zhi, Zhang · 06/01/2018-03/31/2022
Scalable methods for identity by descent
Builds accurate and efficient methods for detecting IBD and local ancestry information in large genotyped cohorts.
Role: Contact PI
Clinical AI and EHR foundation modeling
Structured EHR representation learning and predictive modeling
Supports work connected to Med-BERT and clinical foundation models for structured electronic health records.