Education

Washington University
PhD student, Computational Biology (DBBS)
National Taiwan University

St. Louis, US
9/2005-present
Taipei, Taiwan

Master of Science, Institute of Biomedical Engineering

9/2001-6/2003

National Central University

Chungli, Taiwan

Bachelor of Science, Department of Mechanical Engineering

9/1997-6/2001

Research Activities and Working Experience

Washington University in St. Louis
Advisor: Prof. Alan Templeton
PhD student
n          Examine coalscence theory under different assumptions
Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica

St. Louis, US

12/2006-present

Taipei, Taiwan

Advisor: Prof. Ming-Jing Hwang

Research Assistant

7/2003-7/2005

Predict local structural alphabets.

n          Adopt profile-profile alignment combined with nearest neighbor algorithm to predict local structural alphabets.

Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Taiwan University

Taipei, Taiwan

Advisor: Prof. Ming-Jing Hwang and Prof. Chung-Ming Chen

Master Thesis Research

9/2001-6/2003

n          Thesis, “Structural Signature of Protein Folds for SCOP Classification: A Building-Block-Based Hidden Markov Model”.

n          Develop 1^st order Markov Models to recognize signatures of protein folds.

Publication

n          Wang S.L., Chen C.M. and Hwang M.J. “Classification of Protein 3D Fold by Hidden Markov Learning on Sequences of Structural Alphabets.”, Paper published and presented at the third Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC), January 17-21, 2005.

n          Wang S.L. and Hwang M.J. “Profile-Profile Alignment Approaches for Predicting Local Structural Alphabets” Poster presented at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), January 4-8, 2005.

n          Wang S.L., Chen C.M. and Hwang M.J., “Training Hidden-Markov Models on Sequences of Local Structural Alphabets for Protein Fold Assignment. “, Poster presented at the eighth annual international conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB), March 27-31, 2004.