Faculty - Dr. Jinbo Xu
PhD - University of Waterloo
Assistant Professor
Born in JiangXi, China, Jinbo Xu received his B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1996, his M.Sc. from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1999, and his Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo in 2003. He spent one year following as a research assistant professor at the University of Waterloo and one year as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and AI Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Professor Xu's primary research interest is computational biology and bioinformatics including homology search, protein structure prediction, and protein interaction prediction. He has developed several protein structure prediction tools, such as RAPTOR, ACE, and SCATD.
Dr. Xu also has a personally maintained website which can be found at http://www.tti-c.org/xu