Areas of Focus
- Development of computational algorithms for predicting protein 3D structures from amino acid sequences
- Development of new methods in molecular dynamics simulations for quantitative analysis of large-scale conformational changes in biomolecules
Work Experience
- 2009-2014 - Tsinghua University, School of Life Sciences - Assistant Professor
- 2015-Present - Tsinghua University, School of Life Sciences - Associate Professor
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1993-1997 Bachelor: Tsinghua University, Department of Biological Sciences and Technology
- 1997-2000 Master: Tsinghua University, Department of Biological Sciences and Technology
- 2000-2006 PhD: Johns Hopkins University, Molecular Biophysics
- 2006-2007 Postdoctoral Researcher: Johns Hopkins University, Molecular Biophysics
- 2007-2009 Postdoctoral Researcher: University of Chicago, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Publications
- Predicting the real-valued inter-residue distances for proteins, Wenze Ding and Haipeng Gong, 2020
- Frontier Expansion Sampling: A Method to Accelerate Conformational Search by Identifying Novel Seed Structures for Restart, Juanrong Zhang and Haipeng Gong, 2020
- AmoebaContact and GDFold as a pipeline for rapid de novo protein structure prediction, Wenzhi Mao, Wenze Ding, Yaoguang Xing, and Haipeng Gong, 2020
- Improved fragment sampling for ab initio protein structure prediction using deep neural networks, Tong Wang, Yanhua Qiao, Wenze Ding, Wenzhi Mao, Yaoqi Zhou, and Haipeng Gong, 2019
- Molecular determinants for the thermodynamic and functional divergence of uniporter GLUT1 and proton symporter XylE, Meng Ke, Yafei Yuan, Xin Jiang, Nieng Yan, and Haipeng Gong, 2017
- Simulating the activation of voltage sensing domain for a voltage-gated sodium channel using polarizable force field, Ruining Sun and Haipeng Gong, 2017
