Computational Advances in Structural Biology

Dr. Jianlin Cheng is the William and Nancy Thompson Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Missouri, Columbia, USA. He earned his PhD in computer science from the University of California, Irvine in 2006. His research is focused on bioinformatics and machine learning. Dr. Cheng has authored or co-authored >200 papers (Google Scholar), which have been cited >17,600 times and have an h-index of 59. His protein structure prediction method – MULTICOM – was consistently ranked among the top predictors in the last 8 rounds of Critical Assessments of Structure Prediction (CASP8-15) from 2008 to 2022. His research has been supported by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF) and Department of Energy (DoE). Dr. Cheng received the NSF CAREER award in 2012 and was elected a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and a fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) in 2022.