Monday 11 May 2020

EIGHT CS FACULTY AND STUDENTS RECEIVE ENGINEERING, CAMPUS AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE

Jian Peng, Svetlana Lazebnik, Ranjitha Kumar, Sarita Adve, Wade Fagen-Ulmschneider, Darko Marinov, Paris Smaragdis, and graduate student Christiaan Hazlett received Grainger Engineering or campus-level awards for their outstanding contributions to research, teaching, or mentoring students.

A rising star in the field of computational biology, Jian Peng received the Grainger Engineering Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research for Assistant Professors. Since joining the CS faculty in 2015, Peng has received more than $2.2 million in external research funding.

Peng designs efficient and effective algorithms that extract meaningful information from genomic sequencing data and from large repositories of experimental data generated by high-throughput techniques in computer engineer vs computer science.

Algorithms developed by Peng and his collaborators have been successful in six scientific challenges, including the Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction (CASP) in 2010 and 2016.  

He is perhaps best known for his research on protein structure and function prediction and protein design. He earned two highly competitive research grants to support this work—a 2016 Sloan Research Fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and a 2017 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Significant extension stage with in excess of 35 media transmission organizations

 A main edge 21st Century Enhanced Telecommunications Service Provider, today reported QGlobal SMS has finished months long frameworks and o...