Cathy Wu, PhD

Unidel Edward G. Jefferson Chair in Engineering and Computer Science
Director, Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (CBCB)
Director, Data Science Institute (DSI)
Director, Protein Information Resource (PIR)
Professor, Computer & Information Sciences
Professor, Biological Sciences

Research Interests

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Data Science: Protein Informatics, Biological Text Mining and and Natural Language Processing, Ontology and Semantic Computing, Gene-Disease-Drug Knowledge Network Analytics, Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning, Cyberinfrastructure

Professional Preparation

BS, Plant Pathology, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 1978
MS, Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 1982
PhD, Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 1984
Postdoc, Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 1986
MS, Computer Science, University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX, 1989

Appointments

  • Founding Director, Data Science Institute (DSI), University of Delaware (UD), Newark, Delaware, 2018–Present
  • Unidel Edward G. Jefferson Chair in Engineering and Computer Science; Founding Director, Online Graduate Certificate in Applied Bioinformatics (2017–Present) & Online Graduate Certificate in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science (2019–Present), UD, 2017–Present
  • Director, PhD Program in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (renamed as PhD Program in Bioinformatics Data Science in 2021), UD, 2012–Present
  • Director, Master of Science (MS) in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology; Professional
    Science Master’s (PSM) in Bioinformatics; and Graduate Certificate in Bioinformatics, UD, 2010–Present
  • Edward G. Jefferson Chair and Director, Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology;
    Professor, Department of Computer & Information Sciences and Department of Biological
    Sciences; University of Delaware (UD), 2009–Present
  • Co-Director, Bioinformatics Track, M.S. Degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, GUMC,2008–Present
  • Professor (2001-2008), Adjunct Professor (since 2009), Department of Biochemistry and
    Molecular & Cellular Biology; Member, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center(GUMC), 2001–Present
  • Director of Bioinformatics (1999-2001), Director (since 2001), Protein Information Resource
    (PIR), Georgetown University (since 1999) and University of Delaware (since 2009), 1999–Present
  • Assistant Professor (1990–1994), Associate Professor (1994–1998), Professor (1998–1999), Department of Epidemiology & Biomathematics, University of Texas Health Center at Tyler, 1990–1999
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Texas at Tyler, 1989–1994
  • Research Scientist, Dept. of Plant Pathology & Microbiology, Texas A&M University, 1986–1987
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University (Advisor:
    Christopher R. Somerville, Member, National Academy of Sciences),1985–1986

Books

  1. Wu CH, Arighi CN and Ross KE (Editors) (2017). Protein Bioinformatics: From Protein Modifications and Networks to Proteomics. Series Methods in Molecular Biology, Volume 1558, Series Editor: Walker, John M. 472p. Humana Press. ISBN: 978-1-4939-6781-0; DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6783-4
  2. Wu CH and Chen C. (Editors) (2011). Bioinformatics for Comparative Proteomics. Series Methods in Molecular Biology, Volume 694, Series Editor: Walker, John M. 387p. Humana Press. ISBN: 978-1-60761-976-5.
  3. Wang J, Wu CH and Wang P. (Editors) (2003) Computational Biology and Genome Informatics. World Scientific. ISBN 981-238-257-7.
  4. Wu CH and McLarty J. (2000) Neural Networks and Genome Informatics. Methods in Computational Biology and Biochemistry, Volume 1, Series Editor: Konopka, AK. 205 p. Elsevier Science. ISBN 0 08 042800 2.

Refereed Publications (>290 peer-reviewed publications)

Google Scholar (>48,000 citations, h-index: 71)
NIH MyBibliography
ResearchGate

Cathy Wu

Delaware Biotechnology Institute
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