Youping Deng, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences and Director of the Bioinformatics Core Facility at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa . He also serves as Co-Director of the Cancer Bioinformatics Shared Resource at the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center, where he leads genomic, epigenomic, and computational biology research focused on cancer health disparities among Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and Asian American populations. Dr. Deng earned his Ph.D. from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College. His research spans integrative bioinformatics and systems biology approaches to identify molecular biomarkers and therapeutic targets across diverse cancers. He has published extensively in high-impact journals and contributed to over 220 scientific articles, particularly in areas including DNA methylation, cancer genomics, and RNA-seq data analysis. As a co-leader of the NIH-funded Pacific Center for Genome Research, Dr. Deng is dedicated to developing genomics research capacity at minority-serving institutions in Hawaiʻi and advancing health equity through precision oncology. His expertise and leadership in bioinformatics infrastructure and population-based genomics make him a recognized authority in the field and a valuable collaborator in cancer research at the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center.