Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering at University of Florida. He leads the Biomedical Image Computing and Imaging Informatics (BICI2 <http://www.bme.ufl.edu/labs/yang/group.html>) Lab. He was recruited to University of Florida through UF Preeminence Hiring Plan. His major research interests are focus on biomedical image analysis and imaging informatics, computer vision, biomedical informatics, and machine learning. He is also working on high performance computing and computed aided health care and information technology using big data. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed journals and premium conferences, including PAMI, TMI, TBME, CVPR, ECCV, MICCAI, IPMI, etc. His lab's research is funded by multiple federal funding, including NIH R01. He also serves in multiple NIH study sections and NSF review panels.