Cathy H. Wu, PhD
Program Coordinator, Delaware INBRE
Delaware CTR ACCEL
Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design [BERD] Core
University of Delaware
Chair, Engineering and Computer Science
Dr. Cathy H. Wu is the Unidel Edward G. Jefferson Chair in Engineering and Computer Science, Director of Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, and Director of Data Science Institute at the University of Delaware. She has conducted collaborative team science research in areas encompassing genomic and proteomic informatics, biological text mining and natural language processing, biomedical ontology and semantic computing, and AI/machine learning for data-driven biomedical knowledge discovery. Dr. Wu has led/co-led major bioinformatics resources including the international UniProt Consortium. She has published more than 280 scientific publications and is recognized as a “Highly Cited Researcher” (top 1%) on Web of Science for the last seven consecutive years. As the founding director of the Data Science Institute, Dr. Wu spearheads campus-wide effort to catalyze interdisciplinary research collaborations and address big data problems across fields impacting our society.