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Associate Professor Xin Zhao

Xin Zhao

Associate Professor
Affiliation: BIMSA
Research Field: Bioinformatics
Office: A15-205
Email: zhaoxin@bimsa.cn
Webpage: https://bimsa.net/people/xinzhao/

Biography

Xin Zhao is currently an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BIMSA). Her research interests lie at the intersection of biomathematics, computational biology, and artificial intelligence, with a focus on developing mathematical models, computational approaches, and AI-driven methods to address complex problems in the life sciences. She has authored an academic monograph published by Springer Nature and has published several SCI-indexed research articles in related fields. As the principal investigator, she has completed a National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Young Scientists Fund project and two Tsinghua University Qingfeng projects. As a key contributor, she has participated in multiple research projects funded by the NSFC, including major research programs, key projects, and general programs, as well as projects supported by the Beijing Natural Science Foundation. She have extensive teaching experience in mathematics and statistics, including courses such as Mathematical Analysis, Advanced Algebra, Probability Theory, Mathematical Statistics, and Multivariate Statistical Analysis. She is currently a core member of the Beijing Strategic Scientists Team. Her academic honors include the Outstanding Doctoral Graduate of Tsinghua University, Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award of Tsinghua University, National Scholarship, First-Class Comprehensive Excellence Scholarship and Ruo lin award.

Research Interest

  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational biology
  • Biomathematics
  • Deep learning
  • Biostatistics

Education Experience

  • 2015 - 2020 | Tsinghua University | Mathematics | Ph.D
  • 2011 - 2015 | Sun Yat-sen University | Statistics | Bachelor

Work Experience

  • 2024 - -- | BIMSA | Associate Professor
  • 2020 - 2024 | Beijing Electronic Science and Technology Institute | Lecturer

Honors and Awards

  • 2024 | Core Member of the Beijing Strategic Scientist Program
  • 2023 | Excellent Research Award
  • 2020 | Outstanding Ph.D Graduate Award
  • 2020 | Outstanding Ph.D Graduation Thesis

Publications

  • [1] Xiang Shi, Jiayi Kang, Nan Sun, Xin Zhao, Stephen S.-T. Yau, Multi-perspective Natural Vector for Virus Feature Description, Journal of computational biology (2026)
  • [2] Le Zhang, Xin Zhao, Improved Uni-Modal Chinese Fake News Detection Leveraging User Comments, ICCVDM (2025)
  • [3] Le Zhang, Yong Gu, Xin Zhao, Yanshuo Zhang, Shu Zhao, Yifei Jin, and Xinxin Wu, Generalizing Soft Actor-Critic Algorithms to Discrete Action Spaces, PRCV (2024)
  • [4] Stephen S.-T. Yau, Xin Zhao, Kun Tian, Hongyu Yu, Mathematical Principles in Bioinformatics, Springer(2024)
  • [5] Nan Sun, Xin Zhao and Stephen S.-T. Yau, An efficient numerical representation of genome sequence: Natural vector with covariance component, PeerJ, 10, e13544 (2022)
  • [6] Xin Jin, Shu Zhao, Le Zhang, Xin Zhao, Qiang Deng, Chaoen Xiao, Attribute controllable beautiful Caucasian face generation by aesthetics driven reinforcement learning, ACM MM (2022)
  • [7] Le Zhang, Yanshuo Zhang, Xin Zhao, Zexiao Zou , Image captioning via proximal policy optimization, Image and Vision Computing (2021)
  • [8] Kun Tian* , Xin Zhao*, Stephen S.‑T. Yau, Amino acid torsion angles enable prediction of protein fold classification, Scientific Reports (2020)
  • [9] Kun Tian*, Xin Zhao*, Yuning Zhang, Stephen S.-T. Yau, Comparing protein structures and inferring functions with a novel three-dimensional Yau-Hausdorff method, Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics (2019)
  • [10] Xin Zhao*, Kun Tian* , Rong L. He, Stephen S.-T. Yau, Convex hull principle for classification and phylogeny of eukaryotic proteins, Genomics (2019)
  • [11] Kun Tian*, Xin Zhao*, Stephen S.-T. Yau, Convex hull analysis of evolutionary and phylogenetic relationships between biological groups, Journal of Theoretical Biology (2018)
  • [12] Xin Zhao, Kun Tian, Stephen S.-T. Yau, A new efficient method for analyzing fungi species using correlations between nucleotides, BMC Evolutionary Biology (2018)
  • [13] Xiaogeng Wan, Xin Zhao, Stephen S.‑T. Yau, An information-based network approach for protein classification, PLoS ONE (2017)
  • [14] Xin Zhao, Kun Tian, Rong L. He, Stephen S.-T. Yau, Establishing the phylogeny of prochlorococcus with a new alignment-free method, Ecology and Evolution (2017)
  • [15] Xin Zhao, Xiaogeng Wan and Rong L. He, Stephen S.-T. Yau, A new method for studying the evolutionary origin of the SAR11 clade marine bacteria. , Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (2016)
Update Time: 2026-08-18 18:00:08