Research in stochastic optimization:

1.   Protein folding and structure prediction

·         A new Monte Carlo sampling method for structure prediction.

Sampling method was suggested recently as the bottleneck in protein structure prediction. We developed a new sampling algorithm for protein structure prediction and tested it on a popular protein folding model, HP model. The new method performed significantly better than all previous methods. As a powerful global optimization algorithm, the new method will also find application in other problems.

2.   Operations research

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