Editorial Board Member - JCSB
Yang Cao
Associate ProfessorDepartment of Computer Science
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
United States
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Yang Cao received PhD in Computer Science from University of California at Santa Barbara. He joined the Computer Science Department at Virginia Tech as an assistant professor in 2006 and became an associate professor in 2012. Dr. Cao has been active in the area of computational systems biology, particularly in modeling and simulation of stochastic effects. He has collaborated with with many researchers in related areas. He has won the prestigious NSF early career award and two best paper awards.
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Dr. Cao’s research interest spans many areas of computational science, such as numerical solution of ordinary differential equations and differential algebraic equations, sensitivity analysis, adjoint methods, multiscale simulation, and stochastic modeling and simulation in biochemical systems. His recent research interest focuses on the modeling and simulation of stochastic effects in biological systems.
Other Editorial Board Members - JCSB
Xiaobo Zhou
Center for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology
Wake Forest University
United States
Bingshan Li
Center for Human Genetics Research
Vanderbilt University
United States
Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem
Department of Computer and Information sciences
Ain Shams University
Cairo-Egypt
Danail Bonchev
Center for the Study of Biological Complexity
Virginia Commonwealth University
United States
Li Zhang
Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
The University of Texas
United States
Kristopher J. Irizarry
College of Veterinary Medicine
Western University of Health Sciences
United States
Naiji Lu
Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology
University of Rochester
United States
