Dr. Zhu joined UNO's Computer Science Department effective January 2007. Dr. Zhu received a M.A. degree in Statistics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2005) and a Ph.D. degree in Bioinformatics from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2006). Before joining UNO's Computer Science Department, he has been with Stowers Institute for Medical Research since June, 2006, where he holds a primary appointment as Biostatistician. He also holds a secondary appointment with the University of Kansas Medical Center, Department of Biostatistics as an Assistant Professor.

Dr. Zhu's methodology research interests fall in many aspects of bioinformatics and biostatisitcs. Dr. Zhu's bioinformatics research interest area includes: computational and statistical methods for analyzing genome-wide data, biological network inference, comparative genomics and biological sequence analysis. Dr. Zhu's applied statistics research interest area includes: applied multivariate analysis, statistical inference and computing, machine learning. In addition, Dr. Zhu actively collaborates with biomedical researchers to apply appropriate computational and statistical techniques to solve real-world biomedical problems.