Welcome

The 16th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB 2025) is the flagship conference of the ACM SIGBio (https://acm-bcb.org/). It was held for the first time outside of USA in Shenzhen China from Nov 22nd to 25th 2024, after past successes in many USA locations. The ACM-BCB 2025 will be held back in USA at Philadelphia, PA from October 12-15, 2025. This year, the conference aims to promote AI for Bio-medicine (AI4Bio), including cutting-edge AI advances in computational biology, bioinformatics, and health informatics, at the intersection of computer science, artificial intelligence, statistics, biology, and medicine.

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Keynote Speakers

Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, MBA, PhD
Waldemar von Zedtwitz Professor, Yale University, USA

Biosketch: Dr. Lucila Ohno-Machado is Deputy Dean for Biomedical Informatics and Chair of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science at Yale University, where she oversees informatics research infrastructure and leads initiatives that integrate data science into clinical care and biomedical discovery. She previously served as founding chair of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at UC San Diego, directing large-scale efforts to share clinical data across UC health systems and beyond, and earlier held faculty positions at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and MIT. Her research focuses on predictive modeling, evaluation of AI methods, and federated learning approaches that enable multi-institutional collaboration while protecting privacy. An elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and fellow of multiple professional societies, she received her MD from the University of São Paulo, MBA from Fundação Getúlio Vargas, and PhD from Stanford University.

Hongfang Liu, PhD
D. Bradley McWilliams Chair Professor, UTHealth Houston, USA

Biosketch: Dr. Hongfang Liu is McWilliams Chair Professor in Biomedical Informatics and Vice President of the Learning Health System at UTHealth Houston.  She also directs the Center for Translational AI Excellence and Applications in Medicine (TEAM-AI).  Her research focuses on healthcare AI, computational biology, bioinformatics, and biomedical data science guided by the translational AI framework: TIES (teamwork, innovation, excellence, stewardship) team science, RITE (reproducible, implementable, transparent, and explainable) translational science, and FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) data science. Her research and leadership contributions have been recognized with the NSF CAREER, AMIA Donald A. B. Lindberg Award in Informatics Innovation, NCATS Innovation Award, CPRIT Established Investigator Recruitment Award, and UTHealth President Leadership Award. 

Ben Raphael, PhD
Professor, Princeton University, USA

Biosketch: Dr. Ben Raphael is Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, with joint affiliations in the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, the Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute, and the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning. His research focuses on computational methods for large-scale biological data, including combinatorial optimization, graph algorithms, machine learning, and statistical models applied to cancer evolution, network/pathway analysis of genetic variation, and structural variation in human and cancer genomes. His algorithms have been used in projects such as The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and the ICGC Pan-Cancer Analysis of Whole Genomes (PCAWG). He joined Princeton in 2016 after a decade at Brown University, where he directed the Center for Computational Molecular Biology from 2013 to 2016. He is also affiliate faculty at Rutgers Cancer Institute, the Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics (Columbia), and the New York Genome Center. His honors include ACM Fellow (2024), ISCB Fellow (2020), the ISCB Innovator Award (2021), a Sloan Research Fellowship (2010–2012), NSF CAREER Award, and multiple “Test of Time” awards from RECOMB. 

Contact Details

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