Dr. Guanghua Xiao is a Professor of Data Sciences at the Peter O'Donnell Jr. School of Public Health and the Mary Dees McDermott Hicks Chair in Medical Science at UT Southwestern Medical Center. He has a background in engineering, biostatistics and his research expertise is in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and statistical modeling. His research lab focuses on developing AI methods for biomedical imaging analysis and bioinformatics tools for spatial molecular profiling technologies. He holds multiple NIH (R01GM140012, R01GM141519, R01DE030656, U01CA249245) and CPRIT (RP190107) grants as PI or MPI.