Degui Zhi

The University of Texas Health Science Center

Full Professor(heuristic)

Genetic Associations and Epidemiology · Genetics

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h-index49
i10-index126
Publications303
Citations13,125

Grants

9 total · 3 active

NIH #R01AG081398

Efficient IBD mapping for Alzheimer's Disease and related brain imaging phenotypes

Active
Amount
$700K–$800K
Period
2024-09-30 → 2029-06-30
PIs
2

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON

NIH #U01AG098387

PG4AD: Scaling up pangenome graph for genotyping complex structural variations for Alzheimer's disease genetics

Active
Amount
$500K–$600K
Period
2026-03-01 → 2029-02-28
PIs
2

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON

NIH #R01HG010086

Scalable methods for identity by descent

Active
Amount
$600K–$700K
Period
2018-06-01 → 2027-06-30
PIs
2

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON

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All Grants

9 total · 3 active

NIH #R01AG081398

Efficient IBD mapping for Alzheimer's Disease and related brain imaging phenotypes

Active
Amount
$700K–$800K
Period
2024-09-30 → 2029-06-30
PIs
2

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON

NIH #U01AG098387

PG4AD: Scaling up pangenome graph for genotyping complex structural variations for Alzheimer's disease genetics

Active
Amount
$500K–$600K
Period
2026-03-01 → 2029-02-28
PIs
2

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON

NIH #R01HG010086

Scalable methods for identity by descent

Active
Amount
$600K–$700K
Period
2018-06-01 → 2027-06-30
PIs
2

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON

NIH #U01AG070112

Genetics of deep-learning-derived neuroimaging endophenotypes for Alzheimer's Disease

Amount
$1M–$2M
Period
2021-07-01 → 2026-06-30
PIs
3

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON

NIH #R01EY032768

Deep-Learning-Derived Endophenotypes from Retina Images

Amount
$500K–$600K
Period
2022-09-30 → 2025-06-30
PIs
2

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON

NIH #R56HG011509

Genome Informatics For Biobank-scale Data

Amount
$600K–$700K
Period
2021-09-24 → 2023-08-31
PIs
2

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON

NIH #R01HG008115

Next-Generation Bioinformatics for Next-Generation Sequencing

Amount
$400K–$500K
Period
2014-09-10 → 2018-06-30
PIs
3

Awarded at BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE

NIH #R00RR024163

Algorithms for protein superfamily classification and function prediction

Amount
$200K–$300K
Period
2009-07-07 → 2012-05-31
PIs
1

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM

NIH #K99RR024163

Algorithms for protein superfamily classification and function prediction

Amount
<$100K
Period
2007-09-15 → 2009-06-30
PIs
1

Awarded at UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY

Recent Public Signals

  1. New paper: RLBWT-based LCP computation in compressed space for terabase-scale pangenome analysis (Bioinformatics)2026-07-01
  2. New preprint: Data-Efficient Autoregressive-to-Diffusion Language Models via On-Policy Distillation2026-06-04
  3. New NIH award: PG4AD: Scaling up pangenome graph for genotyping complex structural variations for Alzheimer's disease genetics2026-03-01

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  • Grants as of 2026-09-03

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ORCID: 0000-0001-7754-1890

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