Biography

Guanghua Xiao is a Professor at the O'Donnell School of Public Health and has secondary appointments in the Departments of Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He holds the Mary Dees McDermott Hicks Chair in Medical Science and leads the Health Data Sciences Ph.D. program at the school.

With a focus on machine learning, spatial statistics, and high-dimensional data analysis, Dr. Xiao and his team have developed user-friendly software and tools for genomic and imaging data analysis. His current research includes AI methods for pathology imaging analysis and bioinformatics tools for spatial molecular profiling.

Dr. Xiao is the PI or MPI on several research grants, funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), and the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT).