Yang Shen

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News

01/2012  Best performance in CAPRI Round 26 (1st out of 42 worldwide teams).

01/2012  Started the appointment of research assistant professor at TTI-C.

07/2011  Produced one fair and two medium predictions for three protein–protein targets and ranked No. 2 among 37 worldwide teams in CAPRI Round 23.

03/2011  Gave an oral presentation at the 241st American Chemical Society National Meeting.

Bio

Yang Shen is a research assistant professor at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, a philanthropically endowed academic computer science institute with a close affiliation with the University of Chicago Computer Science Department. 

He received his B.E. in Automatic Control from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2002 and his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from Boston University in 2008.  In 2008–2011 he has been a Postdoctoral Associate with Dr. Bruce Tidor in the Department of Biological Engineering and the Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

His research interests are in modeling, simulating, and engineering of biomolecular networks, with the goal of probing molecular mechanisms and modulating emergent behavior.  Specific topics include protein docking, protein engineering, drug design, systems and synthetic biology, and bioinformatics.  Central to these ends are the development and application of computational methods in molecular modeling, network simulation, optimization, machine learning, graph theory, and system and control theory.