Lu Wang, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health Sciences at the Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine. She is also an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Cullen College of Engineering. Dr. Wang will be teaching data science related courses at the Fertitta Family College of Medicine.

Her work will focus on medical data science, such as data preprocessing, data exploration, data analysis, statistical/mathematical modeling for machine learning tasks, medical insights derivation and results presentation and visualization.

Previously she was an assistant professor in computer science at Texas State University. Prior to her time there, she was a co-instructor at the University of Toronto where she conducted research related to health/(bio)medical informatics and bioinformatics, interactive machine learning and human-center artificial intelligence.

She received her undergraduate degree in statistics from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Wang received her first doctorate in Computer Science from Wayne State University, while obtaining her second doctorate in Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. It was during this time that she served as the data science team lead and graduate research assistant in data modeling, experimental methods in human factors and knowledge modeling and management.

Wang has been published in several journals, both nationally and internationally, as well as having presented in numerous conferences. She serves as the associate editor of Smart Health journal, and is a reviewer for Scientific Reports, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Bioinformatics. She has also received many awards, grants and recognition over the course of her career, and is an avid researcher.