- Apr 23, 2026
Invited to present at CAPE Day 2026 (Texas Children's Hospital, April 23) on the Poverty Simulator intervention in health professions education.Talk
- Apr 8, 2026
Paper accepted at IEEE EIT 2026: "Comparative Analysis of Shallow and Deep Learning Methods for Diabetes Prediction Using the Pima Indians Dataset".Paper
- Mar 15, 2026
Oral presentation accepted at the 30th Annual Conference of the International Association: "Promoting Structural Awareness and Empathy: Evaluation of a Poverty Simulation Intervention in Health Professions Education".Talk
- Feb 9, 2026
Joined Rice University as a Postdoctoral Associate in Computer Science, working with Dr. Hanjie Chen.New Role
- Dec 12, 2025
Awarded Ph.D. in Biostatistics (minor: Health Economics) from UTHealth Houston.Milestone
- Nov 29, 2025
Paper accepted in Biomedical Signal Processing and Control: "Demography-Aware Personalized Federated Learning for Fair, Private, and Efficient Clinical Risk Prediction".Paper
- Oct 1, 2025
Paper accepted in Biomedical Signal Processing and Control: "Pre-attentive Speech Signal Processing with Adaptive Routing for Emotion Recognition".Paper
- Jul 11, 2025
Paper accepted at IEEE AIxMHC 2025 (Taiwan): "Weighted Federated Learning with Encryption for Diabetes Classification".Paper
- Dec 10, 2024
Paper accepted in The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse: "Applied Statistical Methods for Identifying Features of Heart Rate Associated with Nicotine Vaping".Paper
Postdoctoral Associate in Computer Science
Rice University, Houston, TX
Advisor: Dr. Hanjie Chen
Biostatistics (minor: Health Economics)
UTHealth Houston
Advisors: Dr. James Yang · Dr. Anne Buu · Dr. Theresa Tran
Mathematics and Statistics
University of Melbourne, Australia
Advisor: Dr. Howard Bondell
Statistics
Hong Kong Baptist University
Advisor: Dr. Jingjing Wu
Demography-Aware Personalized Federated Learning for Fair, Private, and Efficient Clinical Risk Prediction
Zhao P., Yue Z., Mi N., Zhang H.
Biomedical Signal Processing and Control 114, 109312
Pre-attentive Speech Signal Processing with Adaptive Routing for Emotion Recognition
Zhang H., Pang Z., Zhao P., Tang G., Shen L., Wang G.
Biomedical Signal Processing and Control 112, 108782
Applied Statistical Methods for Identifying Features of Heart Rate Associated with Nicotine Vaping
Zhao P., Yang J., Buu A.
The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse 51(2), 165–172
Reproducible and Generalizable Speech Emotion Recognition via an Intelligent Fusion Network
Zhang H., Zhao P., Tang G., Li Z., Yuan Z.
Biomedical Signal Processing and Control 109, 107996
Sparse Temporal-Aware Capsule Network for Robust Speech Emotion Recognition
Zhang H., Huang H., Zhao P., Yu Z.
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence 144, 110060
CENN: Capsule-Enhanced Neural Network with Innovative Metrics for Robust Speech Emotion Recognition
Zhang H., Huang H., Zhao P., Zhu X., Yu Z.
Knowledge-Based Systems 304, 112499
DiGAN Breakthrough: Advancing Diabetic Data Analysis with Innovative GAN-Based Imbalance Correction
Zhao P., Liu X., Yue Z., Zhao Q., Liu X., Deng Y., Wu J.
Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine Update 5, 100152
Promoting Structural Awareness and Empathy: Evaluation of a Poverty Simulation Intervention in Health Professions Education
Zhao P., Carapucci T., Alford J., Kodakandla M.
30th Annual Conference of the International Association · 2026
Weighted Federated Learning with Encryption for Diabetes Classification
Zhao P., Yue Z., Liu X., Wu J.
IEEE AIxMHC · Taiwan, 2025
An Attention-Based LSTM Framework for Detection of Bitcoin Scams
Zhao P., Tian W., Xiao L., Liu X., Wu J.
IEEE HDIS · Tianjin, 2022
Prediction of Solar Power via Statistical and Machine Learning Methods
Zhao P., Tian W.
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1046(1), 012006 · Tokyo, 2022
Open to collaboration and research discussions.
✉ Puyang.Zhao@rice.edu
Last updated: April 2026