Chongzhi Zang

Dr. Chongzhi Zang is a Professor in the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Virginia and Director of Computational Genomics at the UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center. He also holds courtesy appointments in the Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics and Biomedical Engineering at UVA. Dr. Zang received his undergraduate degree in physics from Peking University and his PhD in physics from the George Washington University, followed by postdoctoral training in computational biology at Harvard University’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute before joining the UVA faculty in 2016. Dr. Zang’s research focuses on computational method development, transcriptional regulation, and chromatin biology. He has developed several widely used bioinformatics tools for epigenomics analysis, and his innovative computational work has enabled important discoveries in gene regulation across various biological systems. As an internationally recognized researcher, he has served as grant reviewe