Dr. Karol Watson is
an attending cardiologist and a Professor of Medicine/Cardiology at the David
Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),
USA. She is also the Director of the UCLA Women’s Cardiovascular Health Center.
Dr. Watson received her MD from Harvard Medical School and a PhD in Physiology
from UCLA. She also completed a residency in Internal Medicine and a fellowship
in Cardiology at UCLA and continued there as part of the UCLA Specialty
Training and Academic Research program and as Chief Fellow in Cardiovascular
Diseases. The American Society of Hypertension recognizes Dr. Watson as a
Specialist in Hypertension. She chairs the Cholesterol committee of the
Association of Black Cardiologists, and serves on several committees and panels
of the National Institutes of Health, including serving on the NIH Expert Panel
for the Integrated Clinical Guideline for Cardiovascular Risk Reduction.
Dr. Alex Bui is the Director for both the Medical & Imaging Informatics (MII) Group and the Medical Informatics Home Area. He is also the Senior Associate Dean for Bioscience Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs at David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA. Dr. Bui received his PhD in Computer Science in 2000, upon which he joined the UCLA faculty. His research includes informatics and data science for biomedical research and healthcare in areas related to distributed information architectures and mHealth. His work bridges contemporary computational approaches with the opportunities arising from the breadth of biomedical observations and the electronic health record (EHR), tackling the associated translational challenges.
Dr. Wei Wang is the
Leonard Kleinrock, Chair Professor in Computer Science and Computational
Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the director
of the Scalable Analytics Institute (ScAi). She is also a member of the UCLA
Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Institute for Quantitative and
Computational Biology, and Bioinformatics Interdepartmental Graduate Program.
She received her PhD in Computer Science from UCLA in 1999. Dr. Wang’s research
interests include AI, big data analytics, data mining, machine learning,
natural language processing, bioinformatics and computational biology, and
computational medicine. She has filed seven patents and has published one
monograph and more than three hundred research papers in international journals
and major peer-reviewed conference proceedings, including multiple best paper
awards. She is a Fellow of ACM and IEEE.
Dr. Peipei Ping is
the Director of Integrated Data Science Training in Cardiovascular Medicine at
the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA. She received a B.S. in
Biomedical Engineering from Zhejiang University, China, and a PhD in Cardiovascular
Physiology from the University of Arizona. Dr. Ping has significantly
contributed to cardiovascular research, proteomics phenotyping, and Big Data
science. She characterized the cardioprotective role of PKCε as well as other
underlying mechanisms in cardiac injury and protection, pioneered the
conceptualization and development of functional proteomics approaches to
characterize signaling pathways in the heart, advanced proteomics/metabolomics
technologies, including model systems, quantitative analyses, PTM studies,
protein spatial/temporal dynamics, and omics data-driven biomarker discovery.
