Biography

Dr. May Dongmei Wang is Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Faculty Fellow and full professor in Electrical and Computer Eng. and Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. Her research is in Biomedical Big Data and AI-Driven Intelligent Reality for predictive, personalized, and precision health (pHealth). She published 320+ peer-reviewed articles in referred journals and conference proceedings with more than 17,500+ Google Scholar citations, and delivered 300+ invited and keynote lectures.

Dr. Wang is the Director of Biomedical Big Data Initiative, a Georgia Distinguished Cancer Scholar, a Petit Institute Faculty Fellow, a Kavli Fellow, an AIMBE Fellow, an IAMBE Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, a member of Board of Directors in American Board of AI in Medicine, and ELATES Fellow. She received BEng from Tsinghua University China, and MS&PhD degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Dr. Wang is a recipient of Georgia Tech Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award and Emory University MilliPub Award (for a high-impact paper that is cited over 1,000 times). Dr. Wang’s research has been supported by NIH, NSF, CDC, Georgia Research Alliance, Georgia Cancer Coalition, Shriners’ Hospitals for Children, Children’s Health Care of Atlanta, Enduring Heart Foundation, Coulter Foundation, Microsoft Research, HP, UCB, and Amazon.

Dr. Wang is currently the Senior Editor for IEEE Journal of Biomedical & Health Informatics (J-BHI), an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions for BME, and IEEE Reviews for BME, a regular panelist for NIH CDMA study section, NSF Smart and Connect Health, Brain Canada and multiple European countries. She co-organizes IEEE Healthcare Summit on Integrating BHI and AI to Combat Pandemics, and IEEE-JBHI Special Issue on AI-driven Informatics, Sensing, Imaging and Big Data Analytics for Fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Dr. Wang helps grow the large BHI community by co-organizing many conferences and summits in IEEE, ACM, and Gordon Research Conferences. In 2017 and 2023, Dr. Wang was twice elected IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Vice President. In 2022, she serves in IEEE Future Directions Committee. She was also selected national ELATES program, Georgia Tech Provost’s Emerging Leader’s Program, Georgia Tech Leading Women, Inclusive Leadership Academy, and International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE) Executive Committee. She served as IEEE-EMBS BHI-TC Chair and ACM Special Interest Group in Bioinformatics (SIGBio) Chair.

During 2018-2020, Dr. Wang was Carol Ann and David Flanagan Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology. During 2017-2019, she was Bioinformatics Nomination Committee Chair in American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). During 2015-2017, she was Georgia Tech Biomedical Informatics Program Co-Director in Atlanta Clinical and Translational Science Institute (ACTSI), and 2016 IEEE-EMBS Annual Conference Chair. During 2014-2015, she was IEEE-EMBS Distinguished Lecturer, and an Emerging Area Editor for Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences. Before 2016, Dr. Wang was Director of Bioinformatics and Biocomputing Core in NIH/NCI-sponsored U54 Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, and Co-Director of Georgia-Tech Center of Bio-Imaging Mass Spectrometry for over 10 years.