معرفی
Pengyu Ren is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, holding the E.C.H. Bantel Professorship for Professional Practice. His research focuses on molecular modeling of biological systems for pharmaceutical and biomedical applications, integrating computational biology, chemistry, physics, and biology to understand molecular recognition and protein structure-function relationships. Key research areas include computational drug discovery, multiscale modeling of biomolecules, and engineering novel molecules for therapeutic purposes.
His laboratory, the Computational Biomolecular Engineering Lab, develops advanced computational tools like the AMOEBA polarizable force field and Tinker-HP software. These enable high-fidelity simulations of biomolecular interactions, ion channel mechanisms, and drug design processes. Recent work emphasizes FAIR data principles in simulations and rare earth ion interactions with biological systems.
Publications highlight trends in molecular simulations of ion behavior, protein-RNA interactions, and the development of machine learning-enhanced force fields. His contributions span biomolecular engineering, quantum chemistry applications, and translational drug discovery methodologies.
