Jing He

Jing He is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Old Dominion University, affiliated with the College of Sciences. Her work bridges computer science and structural biology through computational methods for molecular problems.

• Ph.D. in Structural & Computational Biology & Molecular Biophysics from Baylor College of Medicine (2001)
• M.S. in Applied Mathematics from New Mexico State University (1994)
• B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Jilin University (1990)

Her research focuses on computational methods for biological problems involving molecular structures, particularly addressing the protein folding challenge through simplified 3D protein representations, statistical energy functions, and geometry-constrained optimization. This integrates computer science, structural bioinformatics, and molecular biophysics.

Recent publications highlight her expertise in β-strand twist analysis, actin filament modeling, and 3D image processing for cryo-EM data. These span computational geometry, biomedical imaging, and algorithm validation.

She has secured federal funding for projects like "ABI Innovation: Advanced Informatics And Effective Algorithms To Enable Cryoem Protein Structure Prediction And Density Analysis", emphasizing her role in developing scalable tools for structural biology.