Zhiping Weng

Zhiping Weng is the Li Weibo Professor of Biomedical Research and founding Chair of Department of Genomics and Computational Biology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.^[3][4] Prior to that, she was the Director of the Program in Integrative Biology and Bioinformatics at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.^[1][5][6][7] She was awarded Fellowship of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2020 for outstanding contributions to computational biology and bioinformatics.^[8][9]

Zhiping Weng
Alma mater	University of Science and Technology of China (BSc) Boston University (PhD)
Awards	ISCB Fellow (2020)
Scientific career
Fields	Bioinformatics Computational biology Genomics Epigenomics Transcriptional regulation[1]
Institutions	University of Massachusetts
Thesis	Protein-ligand binding: Effective free energy calculations (1997)
Doctoral advisor	Charles DeLisi[2]
Website	www.umassmed.edu/zlab/

Education

Weng was educated at the University of Science and Technology of China^[10] and Boston University where her PhD on the biochemistry of protein-ligand binding was supervised by Charles DeLisi and awarded in 1997.^[11][2]

Career and research

Weng's research interests are in bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics, epigenomics and transcriptional regulation.^[1] She is known for her ZDOCK suite of protein-protein docking algorithms,^[12] leadership of ENCODE,^[13][14] PsychENCODE,^[15] and work on small RNA biology and piwi-interacting RNA (piRNAs).^[1][5][6]

Awards and honors

Weng is a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)^[9] and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).^[when?]