Chunhua Weng

Chunhua Weng is an American researcher in clinical research informatics and health informatics. She is a professor of biomedical informatics at Columbia University. She is known for her work on developing computational methods to improve clinical trial design and recruitment, and for advancing the use of electronic health records to support deep phenotyping and precision medicine.

Biography and career Weng earned her doctoral degree in biomedical informatics and joined the faculty at Columbia University.

Research Weng's research focuses on applying informatics and artificial intelligence to improve clinical trial design, recruitment, and execution. She has contributed to rare disease research through electronic phenotyping and natural language processing of health records, as well as to precision medicine through development of computable eligibility criteria and knowledge representation frameworks.

Awards and honors Weng was elected a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics in 2015. She was elected a Fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics in 2020. In 2025, Weng received the Donald A.B. Lindberg Award for Innovation in Informatics from the American Medical Informatics Association

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