Jie Zheng JieZheng_ShanghaiTech

Jie Zheng received his B.Eng degree (honors) in Computer Science from Zhejiang University in 2000, and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Riverside in 2006. From Aug. 2006 to Feb. 2011, he was a postdoctoral visiting fellow and research scientist at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA. After that, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. From Oct. 2012, he was also an Adjunct Senior Research Scientist at Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), A*STAR, Singapore. In June 2018, Dr. Zheng joined ShanghaiTech University as an Associate Professor. Dr. Zheng has published more than 50 journal papers (14 of which have impact factors higher than 5) and over 40 conference papers. He has served as PC member and reviewer for a number of international conferences, and as Program Co-Chair for two conferences. Moreover, he reviews many papers for top-tier journals (e.g. Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids Research) each year. In Singapore, Dr. Zheng was PI of 3 competitive external research grants at national level (with total funding more than 2 millions Singapore dollars), and he participated in more than 10 other projects as Co-PI or collaborator. In the iGEM (International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition) 2015, Dr. Zheng was the coach of mathematical modeling for the NTU team of students, who won a gold medal. At InCoB (International Conference on Bioinformatics) 2017, he won a best paper award (gold medal) in BMC track. In 2016 and 2017, Dr. Zheng was nominated for the Nanyang Education Award at NTU.

Shanghai, China

Associate Professor

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Computer Science

School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University