Areas of Focus
- Artificial Intelligence in Life Sciences
- Structural Biology
- Genomics
- RNA Biology
- Single-cell Genomics
- Cryo-EM based Protein Structure Modeling
- AI Algorithm Development
Work Experience
- 2011-2012 Postdoctoral Researcher at Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Columbia University
- 2012-2015 Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University School of Medicine
- 2015-2018 Assistant Professor at Tsinghua University School of Life Sciences
- 2018-Present Associate Professor at Tsinghua University School of Life Sciences
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1996-2000 Bachelor: University of Science and Technology of China
- 2000-2006 PhD in Computer Science: University of Science and Technology of China
- 2006-2011 PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics: Columbia University
Publications
- Computational prediction and experimental validation identify functionally conserved lncRNAs from zebrafish to human, Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang et al., 2024
- Online single-cell data integration through projecting heterogeneous datasets into a common cell-embedding space, Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang et al., 2022
- Comparison of viral RNA-host protein interactomes across pathogenic RNA viruses informs rapid antiviral drug discovery for SARS-CoV-2, Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang et al., 2021
- A deep learning method for recovering missing signals in transcriptome-wide RNA structure profiles from probing experiments, Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang et al., 2021
- RNA structure probing reveals the structural basis of Dicer binding and cleavage, Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang et al., 2021
- In vivo structural characterization of the SARS-CoV-2 RNA genome identifies host proteins vulnerable to repurposed drugs, Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang et al., 2021
- Predicting dynamic cellular protein-RNA interactions by deep learning using in vivo RNA structures, Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang et al., 2021
- Keth-seq for transcriptome-wide RNA structure mapping, Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang et al., 2020
- SCALE method for single-cell ATAC-seq analysis via latent feature extraction, Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang et al., 2019
- RNA structure maps across mammalian cellular compartments, Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang et al., 2019
- A2-Net: Molecular Structure Estimation from Cryo-EM Density Volumes, Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang et al., 2019
- Integrative Analysis of Zika Virus Genome RNA Structure Reveals Critical Determinants of Viral Infectivity, Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang et al., 2018
