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Xinqiu YAO, Ph.D.

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


EDUCATION

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


APPOINTMENTS AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

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


TRAININGS

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


TEACHING AND MENTORING

2013, Co-Mentor, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP), University of Michigan

2003, TA, Statistical Physics, School of Physics, Peking University


GRANTS

2015, Co-Writer, “G Protein Activation Mechanisms”, proposal for allocation of simulation time on Anton at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center [Awarded]


HONORS AND AWARDS

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


PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

2018 - present, American Chemical Society

2009 – present, Biophysical Society

2010 – 2012, Biophysical Society of Japan


SKILLS

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


REVIEWER

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