Dong Xu James C. Dowell Professor Director, Digital Biology Laboratory Chair, Computer Science Department 201 Engineering Building West University of Missouri - Columbia Columbia, MO 65211-2060 E-mail: xudong@missouri.edu

Education

• Ph.D., in computational biophysics, Physics Department and Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 1995.
• M.S., in solid state physics, Physics Department, Peking University, China, July 1990.
• B.S., in solid state physics, Physics Department, Peking University, China, July 1987.

Work Experience

• September 2007 to present: James C. Dowell Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Missouri - Columbia.
• January 2007 to present: Chair, Computer Science Department, University of Missouri - Columbia.
• October 2005 to present: Christopher S. Bond Life Sciences Center Investigator, University of Missouri - Columbia.
• August 2003 to September 2007: James C. Dowell Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Missouri - Columbia.
• February 2004 to December 2006: Part-time faculty, U.S. Department of Energy Higher Education Research Experience at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for Distinguished Visiting Scientists and Faculty.
• January 2004 to present: Core Faculty Member, Biomedical and Health Informatics Research Training Program, University of Missouri - Columbia.
• January 2000 to present: Adjunct faculty at Genome Science & Technology Graduate School, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee.
• June 2000 to August 2003: Staff Scientist at Life Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee.
• June 1997 to June 2000: Research Associate at Life Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee.
• June 1995 to June 1997: Visiting Scientist at the Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Biology, SAIC Frederick, NCI-FCRDC, Maryland.
• May 1991 to May 1995: Research Assistant at the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group, Beckman Institute of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Illinois.
• July 1988 to July 1990: Research Assistant at the Physics Department, Peking University, China,

Recent Awards

• R&D 100 award (together with Dr. Ying Xu), 2001, for "Protein Structure Prediction and Evaluation Computer Toolkit (PROSPECT)".
• UT-Battelle Significant Event Award, 2001.
• 2001 Award of Excellence in Technology Transfer from The Federal Laboratory Consortium Southeast Region for developing PROSPECT (together with Dr. Ying Xu).
• 2003 Award of Excellence in Technology Transfer from The Federal Laboratory Consortium for developing "Expression Data Clustering Analysis and Visualization Resource" (EXCAVATOR) (together with Dr. Ying Xu and Dr. Victor Olman).
• UT-Battelle Significant Event Award, 2003.
• Senior Faculty Research Award, College of Engineering, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.

Professional Activities

• Member, Editorial Board of Current Protein and Peptide Science, January 2000 - present.
• Member, Editorial Board of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, January 2006 - present.
• Guest Editor, Special Issue of "The International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications", 2005.
• Member, Program Committee, IEEE Computer Society Bioinformatics (CSB) Conference, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008.
• Session Chair, 26th - 28th Annual International Conference IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), 2004, 2005, 2006.
• Member, Program Committee, Annual Conference of Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), 2005, 2006.
• Member, Program Committee, European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB), 2005.
• Member, Program Committee, the 2nd and 3rd International Workshop on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IWBRA 2006, IWBRA 2007).
• Member, Program Committee, the International Symposium on Optimization and Systems Biology (OSB 2007, OSB 2008).
• Ad hoc member, Study Section for the NIH Director's Roadmap Initiatives, May 25-27th, 2005.
• Member, NIH Technology Development study section, November 9th, 2005; February 9-10, 2006; June 29-30, 2006.
• Ad hoc member, NIH Biodata Management and Analysis study section, October 5-6, 2006.
• Member, NIH Biodata Management and Analysis Panel, July 1, 2007-June 30, 2011.
• Member, Special Review Panel for "Proteomics Centers for Infectious Diseases and Biodefense", March 3-4, 2008.