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
- Protein structure prediction and modeling
- Methodology development for protein design, structural generation and sequence optimization
- Computation and prediction of protein structural dynamics and function
Selected Publications
- 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, 7: 1104–1118, 2025.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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