Methods and Applications
Qifeng Bai is a professor in School of Basic Medical Sciences of Lanzhou University. He is also an associate editor in the journal named Frontiers in Chemistry. He is interested in drug design by developing new algorithms, software, machine learning, and deep learning. He is also good at conformation transition studies of receptors (e.g. kinases and G protein-coupled receptors) by performing molecular dynamics simulations. He has developed the software MolAICal which has been widely used to design drugs based on deep learning and traditional algorithms. Tingyang Xu, a Senior Researcher at Tencent AI Lab's AI for Science Center, earned his Ph.D. from The University of Connecticut and his Bachelor's degree from Shanghai Jiaotong University. His research encompasses deep learning applications for de novo drug design, molecular property prediction, and molecular dynamics simulation, and he has significantly contributed to the development of advanced graph neural networks for tasks like subgraph recognition and node classification. His work has been published in top-tier data mining and machine learning conferences, including NeurIPS, ICML, SIGKDD, AAAI, VLDB, the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Internet of Things (IoT), and Annuals of Surgery. Additionally, Dr. Xu has served as a reviewer for prestigious conferences and journals, including ICML, NeurIPS, KDD, WWW, AAAI, PR, and TKDE, and as the Industrial Track Chair for BIBM 2019. Junzhou Huang is the Jenkins Garrett Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of Texas at Arlington. He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. His major research interests include machine learning, computer vision, medical image analysis, and bioinformatics. His research has been recognized by several awards including UT STARs Award, NSF CAREER Award, Google TensorFlow Model Garden Award, IBM Watson Emerging Leaders, four Best Paper Awards (MICCAI'10, FIMH'11, STMI'12, and MICCAI'15) as well as two Best Paper Nominations (MICCAI'11 and MICCAI'14). He is a Fellow of AIMBE.