Aidong Zhang, William Wulf Faculty Fellow and interim chair of The Department of Computer Science, has been awarded a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop novel machine learning models that better analyze cancer data for targeted therapeutics.Zhang serves as principal investigator. Co-investigators are Stefan Bekiranov, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics in the UVA School of Medicine; and, Chongzhi Zang, assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics and public health sciences in the UVA School of Medicine. Zhang also holds appointments in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and the UVA School of Data Science. Learn more about the grant.