Zhi Wei
Distinguished Professor, Computer Science
3801 Guttenberg Information Technologies Center (GITC)
Education
Ph.D. ; University of Pennsylvania ; Bioinformatics ; 2008

M.S. ; Rutgers University-New Brunswick ; Computer Science ; 2004

B.S. ; Wuhan University ; Computer Science ; 2000

2025 Fall Courses
CS 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I

CS 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES

DS 701C - MASTER'S THESIS

CS 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT

DS 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I

CS 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH

DS 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY IN DS

CS 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II

DS 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT

CS 489 - COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH PROJ

DS 701B - MASTER'S THESIS

DS 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II

CS 488 - INDEPENDENT STUDY IN CS

DS 792B - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH

CS 701B - MASTER'S THESIS

DS 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES

Past Courses
BNFO 135: PROGRAMMING FOR BIOINFORMATICS

BNFO 615: BIOINFORMATICS-CENTRIC DATA STR

BNFO 615: BIOINFRMTCS CENTRC DATA STRUC

BNFO 620: GENOMIC DATA ANALYSIS

CS 103: COMPUT SCI-BUSINESS PROB

CS 636: DATA ANALYTICS WITH R PROGRAM

CS 698: ST:

CS 698: ST: R PROGRAMMING AND DATA ANALYTICS

CS 698: ST:HIGH DIMENSIONAL DATA ANALY

CS 732: ADVANCED MACHINE LEARNING

CS 786: SEL TOP IN COM INF SCI II

DS 636: DATA ANALYTICS WITH R PROGRAM

Conference Proceeding
"Poster: Identifying SMILES from Molecular Structure Images"
June, 2025.

"The Network of Mutual Funds: A Dynamic Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network for Estimating Mutual Funds Performance"
ACM, November, 2023.

"RM-NET: Rasterizing Markov Signals to Images for Deep Learning"
November, 2023.

"Conformal Risk Control for Ordinal Classification"
July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2023.

"Cox-ResNet: A Survival Analysis Model Based on Residual Neural Networks for Gene Expression Data"
January (1st Quarter/Winter), 2023.

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Journal Article
Y Li , Z Cui, X Song, Y Chen, C Li , J Shi, W Qian, G Ren, J Zhou, C Li , X Ma, Y Chen, D Jia, Y Zhang, Z Zhang, R Zhang, Z Zhang, Y Chen, Z Xu, W Chen, X Miao, H Yu, J Chen, K Wang, C R Goding, Zhi Wei, T Li , R Cui. 2025. "Single-Cell Transcriptomic Landscape Deciphers Intratumoral Heterogeneity and Subtypes of Acral and Mucosal Melanomas.." Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research , vol. 31 , no. 12 , pp. 2495-2514.

Yeqing Chen, Wen-Zhe Ho, Zhi Wei. 2025. "Dissecting Opioid Effects in Cell-Cell Communication Within the Ventral Tegmental Area." bioRxiv .

Jianlan Ren, Yeqing Chen, Wen-Zhe Ho, Zhi Wei. 2025. "Dysregulated Gene Regulatory Networks in Substance Use Disorder and HIV Infection: Insights from Single-Cell Genomics." bioRxiv .

E C MacDuffie, L Cocka, X Lin, M Bvochora-Nsingo, S Chiyapo, D Balang, B Maswabi, K Ngoni, D Ramogola-Masire, N M Zetola, Zhi Wei, H Shen, S Bassa, S Grover, E S Robertson. 2025. "Patients with Cervical Cancer with and without HIV Infection Have Unique T-cell Activation Profiles despite Similar Survival Outcomes after Chemoradiation.." Cancer research communications , vol. 5 , no. 4 , pp. 610-620.

Xiang Lin, Jianlan Ren, Le Gao, Junwen Wang, Zhi Wei. 2025. "scDILT: A Model-Based and Constrained Deep Learning Framework for Single-Cell Data Integration, Label Transferring, and Clustering." IEEE Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics , vol. 22 , no. 3 , pp. 1086-1094.

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Other
"Erratum: Epstein-barr virus facilitates expression of KLF14 by regulating the cooperative binding of the E2F-Rb-HDAC complex in latent infection (Journal of Virology (2020) 94:22 (e01209-e01220) DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01209-20)"
Journal of Virology, February, 2021.

"Author Correction: Loss of Phd2 cooperates with BRAFV600E to drive melanomagenesis (Nature Communications, (2018), 9, 1, (5426), 10.1038/s41467-018-07126-9)"
Nature Communications, December, 2019.

Chapter
Zhi Wei, J Minturn, E Rappaport, G Brodeur, H Li. "Network-Based Analysis of Multivariate Gene Expression Data." pp. 121-139. Statistical Methods for Microarray Data Analysis/Springer, 2013.

Zhi Wei, S Baldassano, H Hakonarson. "Genetics of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases." In Petar Mamula, Jonathan E. Markowitz, Robert N. Baldassano, eds., pp. 3-12. Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease/Springer, 2012.

Zhi Wei. "Hidden Markov Models for Controlling False Discovery Rate in Genome-Wide Association Analysis." In Junbai Wang, Aik Choon Tan,Tianhai Tian, eds., Next Generation Microarray Bioinformatics/Humana Press, 2011.