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Yaohang Li is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Old Dominion University (ODU), part of the College of Sciences. His research focuses on computational biology, computational science, Monte Carlo methods, and high-performance computing. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Florida State University (2003), an M.S. from Florida State (2000), and a B.S. from South China University of Technology (1997).
Dr. Li has secured over $15M in research funding, including an NSF CAREER Award (2009) and multiple federal/state grants. His work spans protein structure modeling, bio-inspired algorithms, and parallel computing. Notable contributions include novel sampling approaches for protein modeling and GPU-accelerated optimization methods. He has authored/co-authored numerous peer-reviewed articles in journals like Journal of Computational Biology, IEEE Transactions, and Physical Review.
- Key Research Areas: Protein Loop Prediction, Parallel Tempering Algorithms, Grid Computing Security
- Grants: Includes $13.5M NOAA ISET Cooperative Center and $1M NSF Bio-inspired Control Systems Project
Awards: 2009 NSF CAREER Award, 2005 Young Researcher Award (NCSU), and 2005 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award.
His lab collaborates on interdisciplinary projects such as the Consortium for Research Computing for Sciences (CRCSET) and develops tools like the Variational Autoencoder Inverse Mapper (VAIM) for QCD analysis. Advises on HPC systems and security in distributed computing environments.
