HAIPENG GONG

 

HAIPENG GONG

Associate Professor

School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University

 

 

Education and work experience

1993-1997   Department of Biological Science and Biotechnology, Tsinghua University   B.S. 

1997-2000   Department of Biological Science and Biotechnology, Tsinghua University   M.S. 

2000-2006   Program of Molecular Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University   Ph.D.

2006-2007   Program of Molecular Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University   Postdoc.

2007-2009   Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Chicago   Postdoc.

2009-2014   School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University   Tenure-track assistant professor

2015-present School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University   Tenured associate professor

 

Research Interest

  1. Protein structure prediction and modeling
  2. Methodology development for protein design, structural generation and sequence optimization
  3. Computation and prediction of protein structural dynamics and function

 

Selected Publications

  1. Yuyang Zhang#, Yuhang Liu#, Zinnia Ma#, Min Li, Chunfu Xu*, and Haipeng Gong*, “Improving diffusion-based protein backbone generation with global-geometry-aware latent encoding”, Nature Machine Intelligence, 71104–1118, 2025.
  2. Tianyu Mi#, Nan Xiao, and Haipeng Gong*, “GDFold2: A fast and parallelizable protein folding environment with freely defined objective functions”, Protein Science, 34(2): e70041, 2025.
  3. Yinghui Chen#, Yunxin Xu#, Di Liu, Yaoguang Xing, and Haipeng Gong*, “An end-to-end framework for the prediction of protein structure and fitness from single sequence”, Nature Communications, 15: 7400, 2024.
  4. Yunxin Xu#, Di Liu, and Haipeng Gong*, “Improving the prediction of protein stability changes upon mutations by geometric learning and a pre-training strategy”, Nature Computational Science, 4: 840–850, 2024.
  5. Wenzhi Mao#, Wenze Ding, Yaoguang Xing, and Haipeng Gong*, “AmoebaContact and GDFold as a pipeline for rapid de novo protein structure prediction”, Nature Machine Intelligence, 2: 25-33, 2020.

 

Contact Information 

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Website: http://structpred.life.tsinghua.edu.cn