Shihua Zhang

张世华

Assistant Professor of Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, CAS
Address: No.55, Zhongguancun East road, Beijing 100190, China
Tel: 86-10-62571860
Email: zsh@amss.ac.cn

Shihua Zhang was born on May, 1980 in Shandong Province, China. Now he is Assistant Professor of the Institute of Applied Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, at CAS. His interests are within Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, particularly in Biological network-related issues. He has published over 20 technical papers in the refereed journals and conference proceedings such as in Proteomics, Bioinformatics, PLoS Comput. Bio., Plos ONE, Computational Biology and Chemistry, BMC Structural Biology, Physical Review E, European Physical Journal B, Physica A.

Positions

6/2008 - present, Assistant Professor.
- Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Science (Beijing, China).
7/2008 - present, Postdoctoral Fellow.
- Program in Molecular and Computational Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California (Los Angeles, USA).

Educational Background

9/1999 - 7/2003, Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics,
- School of Mathematics and Statistics, Yunnan University (Kunming, Yunnan, China)
9/2003 - 6/2008, PhD of Operational Research and Control (PhD-direct student),
- Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Science (Beijing, China)

Research Interests

Bioinformatics/Systems Biology
- Modeling and algorithms for molecular networks
- Integrative analysis of molecular networks with other biological data
- Algorithms for protein structures comparison and assemblies determination
- Modeling and algorithms for integration of multiple 'omic' data
- Computational methods for epigenomics
Complex networks/Network science
- Community structure in complex networks
- Structure and dynamics of networks

Selected Publications

A fast mathematical programming procedure for simultaneous fitting of assembly components into cryo-EM density maps.
- Shihua Zhang, Daven Vasishtan, Min Xu, Maya Topf, Frank Alber.
- Bioinformatics (ISMB2010), 2010, 26(12):i261-i268. Faculty of 1000 Biology
Determining modular organization of protein interaction networks by maximizing modularity density.
- Shihua Zhang, Xue-Mei Ning, Chris Ding, Xiang-Sun Zhang.
- BMC Systems Biology (OSB09), in press.
Detecting disease associated modules and prioritizing active genes based on high throughput data.
- Yu-Qing Qiu*, Shihua Zhang*, Xiang-Sun Zhang, Luonan Chen (*Co-first authors).
- BMC Bioinformatics, 11:26, 2010. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-11-26. Highly accessed
Disease-aging network reveals significant roles of aging genes in connecting genetic diseases.
- Ji-Guang Wang, Shihua Zhang, Yong Wang, Xiang-Sun Zhang, Luonan Chen.
- PLoS Computational Biology, 5(9): e1000521. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000521.
Identifying differentially expressed pathways based on a mixed integer linear programming model.
- Qiu Yuqing, Shihua Zhang, Xiang-Sun Zhang, Luonan Chen.
- IET Systems Biology, 3(6), 475-486, 2009.
Quantitative function for community detection.
- Zhenping Li*, Shihua Zhang*, Rui-Sheng Wang, Xiang-Sun Zhang and Luonan Chen (*Co-first authors).
- Physical Review E, 77, 036109, 2008.
- It has been selected by Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, 15(6), 2008.
Biomolecular network querying: a promising approach in systems biology.
- Shihua Zhang, Xiang-Sun Zhang and Luonan Chen.
- BMC Systems Biology, 2008, 2:5. doi:10.1186/1752-0509-2-5. (Complementary). Highly accessed
Discovering functions and revealing mechanisms at molecular level from biological networks.
- Shihua Zhang, Guanxu Jin, Xiang-Sun Zhang and Luonan Chen.
- Proteomics, 7(16), 2856-69, 2007.
Alignment of molecular networks by integer quadratic programming.
- Zhenping Li*, Shihua Zhang*, Yong Wang, Xiang-Sun Zhang and Luonan Chen (*Co-first authors).
- Bioinformatics, 23(13):1631-1639, 2007; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm156.
A hybrid graph-theoretic method for mining overlapping functional modules in large sparse protein interaction networks.
- Shihua Zhang, Hong-Wei Liu, Xue-Mei Ning and Xiang-Sun Zhang.
- International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics, 3(1), 68-84, 2009.
Hubs with network motifs organize modularity dynamically in the protein-protein interaction network of yeast.
- Guangxu Jin, Shihua Zhang, Xiang-Sun Zhang, Luonan Chen
- PLoS ONE 2(11): e1207, 2007. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001207.
Uncovering fuzzy community structure in complex networks
- Shihua Zhang, Rui-Sheng Wang, Xiang-Sun Zhang
- Physical Review E, 76, 046103, 2007.
- It has been selected by Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, 14(8), 2007.
Graph kernels, hierarchical clustering, network community structure: experiment and comparative analysis.
- Shihua Zhang, Xue-Mei Ning and Xiang-Sun Zhang.
- European Physical Journal B, 57, 67-74, 2007.
Clustering complex networks and biological networks by Nonnegative Matrix Factorization with various similarity measures
- Rui-Sheng Wang, Shihua Zhang, Yong Wang, Xiang-Sun Zhang, Luonan Chen
- Neurocomputing, 72, 134-141, 2008.
Identification of overlapping community structure in complex networks using fuzzy c-means clustering
- Shihua Zhang, Rui-Sheng Wang, and Xiang-Sun Zhang
- Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applictions, 2007, 374, 483–490
Detecting community structure in complex networks based on a measure of information discrepancy.
- Junhua Zhang, Shihua Zhang, Xiang-Sun Zhang
- Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applictions, 2008, 387(7), 1675-1682. doi:10.1016/j.physa.2007.10.061.
Identifying modules in complex networks by a graph-theoretical method and its application in protein interaction networks
- Rui-Sheng Wang, Shihua Zhang, Xiang-Sun Zhang, Luonan Chen
- Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 4682, 1090-1101, 2007.
Revealing divergent evolution, identifying circular permutations and detecting active-sites by protein structure comparison.
- Luonan Chen, Ling-Yun Wu, Yong Wang, Shihua Zhang and Xiang-Sun Zhang.
- BMC Structural Biology, 2006, 6:18. Highly accessed
Identification of functional modules in a PPI network by clique percolation clustering.
- Shihua Zhang, Xue-Mei Ning and Xiang-Sun Zhang.
- Computational biology and chemistry, 30(6), 445-451, 2006.
Prediction of protein complexes based on protein interaction data and functional annotation data using kernel methods.
- Shihua Zhang, Xue-Mei Ning, Hong-Wei Liu, and Xiang-Sun Zhang.
- Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, 4115, 514-524, 2006.

Selected Honors and Awards

Excellent PhD thesis Award of Chinese Academy of Science, 2009.
Top Grade Presidential Award of Chinese Academy of Science, 2008.
BHPB Scholarship of Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Science, 2007.
Baojie Excellent PhD student Scholarship of Chinese Academy of Science, 2007.
Baogang Scholarship, 2003.

Research Projects

Research on Some Important Problems in Bioinformatics (2005-2008)
- Important Direction Research Grant, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Joint Investigator.
Research on Models and Algorithms of Haplotype Inference Problem in Bioinformatics (2006-2008).
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Grant No. 60503004, Joint Inverstigator
Research on theory and algorithms of community detection in complex networks (2008-2010)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Grant No. 10701080, Joint Investigator

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