Dr. Li Shen is a Professor of Informatics, Radiology, and Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. He serves as Interim Director of the Informatics Division in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics, Associate Director for Bioinformatics at the Penn Institute for Biomedical Informatics, and Co-Director of the Penn Center for AI and Data Science for Integrated Diagnostics. Dr. Shen is a pioneer in brain-wide genome-wide association studies for Alzheimer’s disease. His research spans artificial intelligence and machine learning, biomedical and health informatics, NLP and large language models, medical image computing, network science, and multi-omics and systems biology, with broad applications to complex diseases. His work focuses on developing and applying trustworthy AI and informatics methods to analyze large-scale biobank and healthcare datasets, with the goal of improving disease understanding, early detection, prevention, and care. Dr. Shen has served on numerous journal editorial boards, grant review panels, and conference organizing committees. He is a Fellow of AIMBE, ACMI, and AMIA, an ACM Distinguished Member, and a Distinguished Contributor of the IEEE Computer Society.
