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Dr Yang Zhang is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science, the School of
Computing, National University of Singapore (NUS). He also serves as a Professor in the
Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, and the Department of Biochemistry at the Yong
Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS.
Prior to joining NUS, Dr Yang Zhang worked as a Professor in the Department of
Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, the Department of Biological Chemistry, and
the Department of Macromolecular Science & Engineering, University of Michigan. The
research interests of the Zhang Lab are in artificial intelligence and deep neural network
learning, protein folding and structure prediction, and protein design and engineering.
The I-TASSER algorithm (https://zhanggroup.org/I-TASSER/) developed in his
laboratory was ranked as the No 1 most accurate method for automated protein structure
prediction in the community-wide CASP experiments nine times in a row since 2006.
Among the honors that Dr Zhang received includes the Alfred P Sloan Award, the US
National Science Foundation Career Award, and the University of Michigan Basic
Science Research Award. He was selected as the Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics
Highly Cited Researcher for six times since 2015.
Title: Toward the solution of the protein structure prediction