Jinghui Zhang

Zhang earned a B.S. from Fudan University in 1989.^[1] She completed a M.S. (1991) and Ph.D. (1994) from the University of Connecticut.^[1] Her dissertation was titled, Developing an Interactive Graphic Environment to Browse and Edit Integrated Genome Data.^[2] Claire M. Berg was her doctoral advisor.^[2]

Zhang is a computational biologist who researches large-scale genomic data and disease progression.^[1] She joined the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in 2010.^[3] From 2015 to 2023, she was chair of the computational biology department.^[3] Zhang is the St. Jude Endowed Chair in Bioinformatics at the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.^[1] She was elected a fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology in 2023.^[3]