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General Information

• Position: Assistant Professor
• E-mail: czhao1@lamar.edu
• Phone: 880-7884
• Room: 100

Education

• Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Miami, 2023

Research Interests

• Protein Function Prediction
• Protein Structure Prediction
• 3D Genome Analysis
• Biological Network Analysis

Selected Publications

Zhao, C., Liu, T., & Wang, Z. (2024). PANDA-3D: protein function prediction based on AlphaFold models. NAR genomics and bioinformatics, 6(3), lqae094.

Stewart, R. C., Zhao, C., Liu, T., & Wang, Z. (2024, December). PICNIC: refinement of AlphaFold2 tertiary structure predictions using deep 3D residual neural networks. In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

Siciliano, A. J., Zhao, C., Liu, T., & Wang, Z. (2024). EGG: accuracy estimation of individual multimeric protein models using deep energy-based models and graph neural networks. International journal of molecular sciences, 25(11), 6250.

Zhao, C., Liu, T., & Wang, Z. (2022). Predicting residue‐specific qualities of individual protein models using residual neural networks and graph neural networks. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 90(12), 2091-2102.

Zhao, C., Liu, T., & Wang, Z. (2022). Functional similarities of protein-coding genes in topologically associating domains and spatially-proximate genomic regions. Genes, 13(3), 480.

Zhao, C., Liu, T., & Wang, Z. (2022). PANDA2: protein function prediction using graph neural networks. NAR genomics and bioinformatics, 4(1), lqac004.