Dr Ron Yang

About me:

I am a bioinformacian with research interests covering sequence/structure bioinformatics and systems biology. In the last few years, my work mainly focused on developing novel algorithms for peptide classification, protein structure/function prediction. In collaborating with Oxford University, a tool called RONN was developed for predicting the disordered regions in proteins, which has been proved the best tool so far for predicting the short disordered regions in proteins. I am a member of the Molecules and cells research group.

My current research interests are in gene-metabolite network construction, signaling pathway crosstalk modeling and systems dynamics. My main methodology is top-down data mining using various machine learning algorithms and differential as well as difference equations. In theoretical bioinformatics, I am currently working on developing novel neural network algorithms which can handle data complexity as conventional neural networks but provide the capability of quantitative interpretation to a model so that biological relevance in data can be well-explored through black-box-alike learning.

1995-1997 PhD, Portsmouth University

2000-2021 Senior lecturer in Bioinformatics, School of Biosciences, Exeter University
2004-2007 Senior lecturer in Computer Sciences, Department of Computer Sciences, Exeter University
2000-2004 Lecturer in Computer Sciences, Department of Computer Sciences, Exeter University
1999-2000 Research fellow, Heriot-Watt University
1997-1999 Research fellow, Southampton University