Shaoliang Peng
Prof. Shaoliang Peng works in College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, in Changsha (HNU, Changsha, China), and National University of Defense Technology (NUDT, Changsha, China), and is an adjunct professor of BGI. He was a visiting scholar at CS Department of City University of Hong Kong (CityU) from 2007 to 2008 and at BGI Hong Kong from 2013 to 2014. His research interests are high performance computing, bioinformatics, big data, virtual screening, and biology simulation. He is the executive director of the National Supercomputing Center in Changsha and a professor of National University of Defense Technology, has published dozens of academic papers on several internationally influential journals, including Nature Communications, Cell AJHG, Genome Biology, Cancer Research, ACM / IEEE Transactions, BIBM and so on. He has participated in software development researches for the Tianhe supercomputer series, He has been involved in several projects from 973 Program, 863 Program, He has been deputy director of CCF Computer Application Committee, deputy director of biological information professional group in CCF, the chairman of YOCSEF Changsha (2016-2019), commissioner of AC Committee (2017-), member of the National Science and Technology Expert Group, member of the National Science and Technology experts, member of the CCF High Performance Computing, Big Data Special Committee, CCF Senior Member and Distinguished Speaker, He has also served as editors and associate editors of several international journals, including Executive Editors of International Journal of Biological Sciences, Associate Editor of Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences International Journal, Executive Editor of the International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering (IJCSE), Associate Editor of the International Journal of Computing and Networking (IJHPCN), Associate Editor of the International Journal of Embedded Systems (IJES). His team won the first place in National Parallel Application Challenge Competition in 2014 and 2015, also awarded in IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge 2015, 2017, and won gold medals in international iGEM competition in 2015 and 2016. At present, the highest citation frequency of his single article is 1179 and the highest citation frequency of his single SCI-include paper is 607, He also has 15 software copyrights as well as 16 patents. He has also served as chairman and sponsor of the Hunan Provincial Bioinformatics Society, Chairman of the Program Committee in CCF 2016 Large Data Technology Conference (International Big Largest Data Conference), Vice Chairman of the Program Committee in CCF Big Data Academic Conference, Chariman of the Fourth National Computational Biology Conference 2017, Chairman of the Program Committee of the Second China Computer Society Bioinformatics Conference Committee, Chairman of the 17th APBC Asia Pacific Regional Bioinformatics Conference Committee 2019 (TOP Forum on Bioinformatics), BIBM 2016 Conference Invited Speaker.