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Assistant Professor

Chenguang Zhao, PhD

Dr. Zhao teaches a range of computer science and cybersecurity courses. His expertise lies in machine learning and bioinformatics, specifically in developing machine learning methods for protein function prediction, protein structure prediction, 3D genome analysis, and biological network analysis.

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Contact Chenguang Zhao for information on Computer Science

Ambrose Hall

563-333-6000

ZhaoChenguang@sau.edu

Education and Training

  • PhD, University of Miami, Computer Science
  • MS, The University of Southern Mississippi, Computer Science
  • BE, Southwest Jiaotong University, Transportation

Recent Publications

  • Zhao, C., Liu, T., & Wang, Z. (2022). Predicting residue‐specific qualities of individual protein models using residual neural networks and graph neural networks. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 90(12), 2091-2102.
  • Zhao, C., Liu, T., & Wang, Z. (2022). Functional Similarities of Protein-Coding Genes in Topologically Associating Domains and Spatially-Proximate Genomic Regions. Genes, 13(3), 480.
  • Zhao, C., Liu, T., & Wang, Z. (2022). PANDA2: protein function prediction using graph neural networks. NAR genomics and bioinformatics, 4(1), lqac004.
  • Zhou, N., Jiang, Y., Bergquist, T. R., Lee, A. J., Kacsoh, B. Z., Crocker, A. W., ..., Zhao, C., ... & Salakoski, T. (2019). The CAFA challenge reports improved protein function prediction and new functional annotations for hundreds of genes through experimental screens. Genome biology, 20, 1-23.
  • Liu, T., Porter, J., Zhao, C., Zhu, H., Wang, N., Sun, Z., ... & Wang, Z. (2019). TADKB: Family classification and a knowledge base of topologically associating domains. BMC genomics, 20, 1-17.
  • Zhao, C., & Wang, Z. (2018). GOGO: An improved algorithm to measure the semantic similarity between gene ontology terms. Scientific reports, 8(1), 15107.
  • Wang, Z., Zhao, C., Wang, Y., Sun, Z., & Wang, N. (2018). PANDA: protein function prediction using domain architecture and affinity propagation. Scientific reports, 8(1), 3484.

Presentations

  • IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM). 2024