Sheng Zhong, University of Illinois at

Urbana Champaign

Dr. Sheng Zhong is an assistant professor of Bioengineering, Computer Science, Statistics and Biophysics in University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He received a B.S. in the School of Mathematics and a B.A. in Economics from Beijing University , China . He received his Ph.D. from Department of Biostatistics with Ph.D. minor in Molecular Biology at Harvard University . He worked in Stanford University Bio-X Center and Department of Statistics in 2004-2005. He joined University of Illinois in 2005. His research interests include mathematical modeling and computational inference to regulatory networks. His group develops machine learning and other statistical methods for analyses of gene expression, genome sequence, protein-DNA interaction and bio-literature data, with emphasis on the inference of the structure, dynamics and evolution of regulatory networks. In particular, his group work on identification of regulatory networks in embryonic stem cells, and investigates the difference of such networks between human and mouse.

Tentative Title: Identification of transcription networks in embryonic stem cells