Areas of Focus
- Nonlinear and stochastic evolutionary game dynamics
- Evolutionary game dynamics mechanisms of cooperative behavior
- Human behavioral ecology
- Stochastic dynamics of gene expression and regulation
Work Experience
- 1992-1994 - Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Zoology - Postdoctoral Research
- 1994-2005 - Center for Complex System, Florida Atlantic University (US) - Research in evolutionary game dynamics and computational biology
- 1994-2005 - Department of Mathematics, Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada) - Research in evolutionary game dynamics and computational biology
- 1994-2005 - Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Montreal (Canada) - Research in evolutionary game dynamics and computational biology
- 1994-2005 - Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences (US) - Research in evolutionary game dynamics and computational biology
- 2005-present - Full-time return to China
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1992 - PhD in Science: Lanzhou University
- Achievement: Research in evolutionary game dynamics
Publications
- The role of exemplar in promoting cooperation, Wu J-J., Li C., Zhang B-Y., Xiao H-D., He Q-Q., Cressman R. and Tao Y., 2014
- Organizer-derived Bmp2 is required for forming an appropriate Bmp activity gradient during embryonic dorsoventral patterning, Xue Y., Zheng X-D., Huang L., Xu P-F., Ma Y-Q., Min Z-Y., Tao Q-H., Tao Y. and Meng A-M., 2014
- The replicator equation and other game dynamics, Cressman R. and Tao Y., 2014
- Activation of sumurf E3 ligase promoted by smoothened regulates hedgehod signaling through targeting turnover, Huang S., Zhang Z., Zhang C., Lv X., Zheng X., Chen Z., Sun L., Wang H., Zhu Y., Zhang J., Yang S., Lu Y, Sun Q., Tao Y., Liu F., Zhao Y. and Chen D., 2013
- Reproduction competition between females in the matrilineal Mosuo of southwest China, Ji T. Wu J-J., He Q-Q., Xu J-J., Mace R. and Tao Y., 2013
- Communal breeding in a saturated habitat generates a matrilineal social system where husband and wife live apart, Wu J-J., He Q-Q., Deng L-L., Wang S-C., Mace R., Ji T. and Tao Y., 2013
- The niche-dependent feedback loop determines a gradient of BMP activity that controls the asymmetric division of germline stem cells in Drosophila, Xia L-X., Zheng X-D., Zhang G-Q., Zhen W-J., Wang H-L., Tao Y. and Chen D-H., 2012
- The diffusion approximation of stochastic evolutionary game dynamics: Mean effective fixation time and the significance of the one-third law, Zheng X-D., Cressman R. and Tao Y., 2011
- The efficiency ratio of costly punishment, Tao Y., Li C., Wu J-J. and Cressman R., 2009
- Costly punishment does not always increase cooperation, Wu J-J., Zhang B-U., Zhou Z-X., He Q-Q., Zheng X-D., Cressman R. and Tao Y., 2009