Zeng Research Group

Jianyang (Michael) Zeng is a full professor in the School of Engineering, and an adjunct faculty member in the School of Life Sciences, Westlake University. He was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Computer Science at Duke University and the Duke University School of Medicine in 2011-2012. He received his PhD in Computer Science from Duke University in 2011, advised by Prof. Bruce Donald (ACM and IEEE fellows). He received his MS and BS degrees from Zhejiang University in 2002 and 1999, respectively.

The research interests of the Zeng lab mainly focus on computational biology, machine learning and big data analysis, particularly the intersection between artificial intelligence/machine learning and life sciences. He has published over 80 papers in the prominent journals and conferences of computational biology and related fields, including top conferences ISMB and RECOMB, and prestigious journals, such as Nature (as a coauthor), Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Communications, Nature Computational Science, Cell Systems, PNAS, Nucleic Acids Research, PLOS Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. He has been awarded "The XPLORER PRIZE" in 2023, "The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in China" in 2021, "Wu Wenjun AI Science and Technology Award (Natural Science track, Third Prize)" in 2019, and "Top-10 Chinese Bioinformatics Breakthroughs" by Journal of Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics in 2018 and 2019. He has been invited as a program committee (PC) member for prestigious international conferences in computational biology, including ISMB and RECOMB. He is an associate editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and an advisory board member of Cell Systems.