Department of Chemistry
Georgia State University
29 Peachtree Center Ave NE
Atlanta, GA 30303-2515, USA
E-Mail: <xinqiu.yao(at)gmail.com>
Web: https://xinqyao.github.io
EXPERTISE: bioinformatics, computational chemistry, molecular dynamics, coarse-grained models, molecular modeling, docking, free energy calculation, machine learning, genome informatics
2008, Ph.D., Biomechanics and Medical Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University (Title of dissertation: “A complex systems approach to study of protein structures”)
2002, B.S., Applied Physics, Dept Applied Physics, Hunan University
2019 - present, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Chemistry, Georgia State University
2017 – present, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Chemistry, Georgia State University
2012 – 2017, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, University of Michigan
2008 – 2012, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biophysics, Grad School of Science, Kyoto University
2002 – 2008, RA, Center for Theoretical Biology, Peking University
2004, Internship, Intel China Research Center, Beijing, China
2018, Scalable and Reproducible Structural Bioinformatics Workshop & Hackathon 2018, San Diego, CA
2015, Anton Workshop 2015, Pittsburgh, PA
2003, School of Parallel Computing, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China
2013, Co-Mentor, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP), University of Michigan
2003, TA, Statistical Physics, School of Physics, Peking University
2015, Co-Writer, “G Protein Activation Mechanisms”, proposal for allocation of simulation time on Anton at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center [Awarded]
2011, The Best Talk, “The 13th Annual Meeting of Chinese Life Science Association”, Kyoto, Japan
2010, The Best Poster, “The 2nd Biosupercomputing Symposium”, Tokyo, Japan
2008, General Presentation Award, “Bio-rad Forum of Graduate Students”, Peking University, Beijing, China
1999, 2000, General Scholarship, Hunan University, Changsha, China
2018 - present, American Chemical Society
2009 – present, Biophysical Society
2010 – 2012, Biophysical Society of Japan
OS: Linux, Windows, Mac OS X
Software: Amber, Gromacs, AutoDock, Modeller, VMD, PyMol, etc.
Programming: R, C/C++, FORTRAN, BASH, Perl, Python, Tcl, etc.
Language: Mandarin Chinese, English
Journals
Nature Communications, BMC Bioinformatics, Proteins, PLoS ONE, J Phys Chem, J Mol Graph Model, Comp Biol & Chem, Chem Phys Lett, Commun Chem, J Bioinform Comput Biol,
Conferences
2017’s Scientific Computing Day, Atlanta
2018’s Scientific Computing Day, Atlanta