Faculty - Dr. Yang Shen
PhD - Boston University
Research Assistant Professor
Yang Shen received his B.E. in Automatic Control from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2002 and his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from Boston University in 2008. In 2008-2011 he has been a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Biological Engineering and the Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His research interests are in modeling, simulating, and engineering biomolecular networks, with the goal of probing mechanisms and modulating behavior. Specifically, he is interested in protein docking, protein engineering, drug design, systems and synthetic biology, and bioinformatics. Central to these ends are the development and application of computational methods in molecular modeling, network simulation, optimization, machine learning, graph theory, and system and control theory.
Dr. Shen also has a personally maintained website which can be found at http://www.ttic.edu/shen