Annie Qu is Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine. Qu’s research focuses on solving fundamental issues regarding structured and unstructured large-scale data and developing cutting-edge statistical methods and theory in machine learning and algorithms for personalized medicine, text mining, recommender systems, medical imaging data, and network data analyses for complex heterogeneous data. The newly developed methods can extract essential and relevant information from large volumes of intensively collected data, such as mobile health data. Her research impacts many fields, including biomedical studies, genomic research, public health research, social and political sciences.
