Patrick Xuechun Zhao
Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, USA
Biography
Dr. Patrick Xuechun Zhao is an Associate Professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation. Dr. Zhao received his Ph.D. degree in Communication and Information Systems from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2000. After his graduation, he joined the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, University of Louisville, as a research associate developing bioinformatics technologies to discover genes and biological networks that are essential to the determination of the normal aging process, in particular those related to successful aging in centenarians. In 2004, he joined the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation as an Assistant Professor and Faculty Principle Investigator. Dr. Zhao’s current research centers on bioinformatics and computational biology, plant and soil microbe functional genomics, statistical machine learning for ‘omics’ data mining and biological knowledge discovery. Dr. Zhao has published over 60 papers in refereed scientific journals. He also published a series of software and bioinformatics resources including a dozen of databases and web servers for plant gene function and gene regulatory network analysis, which are publicly available and used by life scientists from around the world.
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