Jianlin (Jack) Cheng

Curators' Distinguished Professor
Diane Shumaker Professor
AAAS Fellow
Director of Bioinformatics and Machine Learning Lab (BML)
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
NextGen Precision Health Institute
Data Science and Informatics Institute
College of Engineering
University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211-2060

Office: 109 Naka Hall
Lab: E1425 Lafferre Hall and 250 Naka Hall
Phone: 573-882-7306
Fax: 573-882-8318
Email: chengji@missouri.edu

• Bioinformatics
• Machine Learning
• Artificial Intelligence

My research profile at professional networks: Google Scholar, ResearchGate, LinkedIn, PubMed, ORCID, DBLP, Research.Com, LOOP, Scopus, Web of Science

• Protein Structure, Interaction and Function Prediction
• Protein and Drug Design
• Biological Network Modeling & Omics Data Analysis

• PhD in Information and Computer Science, University of California Irvine, 2006
• MS in Computer Science, Utah State University, Logan, 2001
• BS in Computer Science, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, 1994

• One of Top Predictors in the 10 Rounds of the Biennial World-wide CASP Protein Structure Prediction Competition (CASP7-16) from 2006 to 2024
• The CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (NSF), 2012
• The Junior Faculty Research Award, College of Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, 2012
• One of Chancellor's Top Achievers, University of Missouri, Columbia, 2013
• One of Chancellor's Top Achievers, University of Missouri, Columbia, 2016
• William and Nancy Thompson Missouri Distinguished Professor of Engineering, 2018
• Research Fellow, College of Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, 2019
• One of Top 100 AI Leaders in Drug Discovery and Healthcare in the World according to Deep Knowledge Analytics, 2019.
• The Senior Faculty Research Award, College of Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia, 2021
• Fellow of American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), 2022
• Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), 2022
• University of Missouri System Curators' Distinguished Professor, 2023
• Fellow, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2023
• Outstanding Advisor and Mentor Faculty Award, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, 2024.
• Diane Shumaker Professor of Bioinformatics, 2025