Dr. Zhiyuan Song is a postdoc fellow in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UTMB, working with Dr. Zhao. During his PhD studies under Dr. Feng Ding at Clemson University, he focused on amyloid protein aggregation and interactions, gaining extensive experience in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, AI/machine learning, and biological data analysis to uncover the molecular mechanisms underlying protein-protein interactions (PPI). His current research involves development of computational models on predicting protein-protein binding affinity using computational biophysics and advanced AI models, e.g. transformer, graph neural network.