Education

• Iowa State University, Ames Iowa
  Co-major Ph.D., Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Applied Mathematics, 2006
• Fudan University, China
  B.S., Biological Sciences, 2000

CURRICULUM VITAE (PDF)

Research Interests

• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
  - Bio-system Database
  - Protein Structure Modeling and Drug Design
  - System Biology
• Applied Mathematics
  - Scientific Computing
  - Optimization and Linear Programming

Selected On-going Research Projects

• Solution of distance geometry problems
• Biological system database in structural and function recognition
• Protein geometric database
• Medical informatics in cardiovascular diseases
• Protein structural refinement
• Analysis of protein structural dynamics and molecular dynamic simulations
• System Biology

Funding

• Co-PI, “Meta-Analysis of Clinical Cardiovascular Data towards Evidential Reasoning for Disease Management”, Proposal Incentive Fund (PIF), Office of Sponsored Program, Western Kentucky University, Feb 2007-Feb 2008, Amount $22,600, granted.
• PI, “A Novel Method for Protein Structural Refinement using Coarse-Grained Models over High Performance Computing”, KBRIN-Academic Research Enhancement Awards (AREA), Kentucky Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network, July 2007-June 2009, Amount $27,000, granted.
• Co-PI, “Kentucky EPSCoR Intensive Workshop on High Performance Computing for Informatics and Bioscience”, Kentucky NSF EPSCoR CRIG, March 2007-June 2008, Amount $10,000, granted.
  

Database Links

• PIDD (Protein Inter-Atomic Distance Database) is developed by my colleagues and me, and it has been widely used in our research.