Jian Peng

Jian Peng

Department of Mathematics & Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Address:
32-G570 Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
Email: jpeng AT csail.mit.edu

News

I have accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

PhD positions available

Introduction

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Mathematics and the Computation and Biology Group in CSAIL at MIT, working with Professor Bonnie Berger. I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Toyota Technological Institute at the University of Chicago (TTI-C) in May, 2013. My PhD advisor was Professor Jinbo Xu. I received my Bachelor and Master degrees in Computer Science from Wuhan University, China. I was selected as a Microsoft Research PhD Fellow in 2010.

My current research focuses on the design and application of both efficient algorithms and effective statistical modeling techniques, especially for processing, integrating and analyzing the vast datasets in genomics, systems biology and molecular biology. My doctoral research was on statistical models for structural bioinformatics, with a focus on statistical inference for protein structure modeling.

I am also working on various topics in statistical machine learning, including variational inference, structural learning and applications of graphical models in computational biology.

Selected Honors and Awards

- Winner of CrowdScale Shared Task Challenge, 2013

- Microsoft Research Ph.D Fellowship (10 recipients in North America), 2010-2012

- Young Investigator Award, Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), 2011

- Best performer on breast cancer cell line pharmacogenomics challenge, Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation (CAGI), 2011

- RaptorX, ranked No.1 for human template-based modeling and No.2 overall among server groups in CASP9; voted by CASP9 community as one of the most innovative methods, 2010

- RAPTOR server, ranked No.2 among all server groups in CASP8, 2008

- Best Poster Award, Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB) 2009

- Best Poster Award, CASP8 2008

- Invited papers for best performers in CASPs, 2008 and 2010

Recent Invited Talks

- UIUC CS Colloquium, April 2014

- UT-Austin CS/MBS Colloquium, April 2014

- MIT Applied Math Colloquium, March 2014

- Stony Brook CS Colloquium, Feburary 2014

- WUSTL CS Colloquium, Feburary 2014

- Rochester CS Colloquium, Feburary 2014

- Indiana Bloomington CS Colloquium, Feburary 2014

- UW-Madison BMI/MIR Colloquium, Janurary 2014