Dr Yang Zhang is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS). He also serves as a Professor and Senior PI in the Department of Computer Science at the School of Computing, and the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, NUS.

Prior to joining NUS, Dr Yang Zhang worked as a Professor in the Department of Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics, the Department of Biological Chemistry, and the Department of Macromolecular Science & Engineering, University of Michigan. The research interests of the Zhang Lab are in artificial intelligence (AI) and deep neural network learning, protein and RNA structure prediction, and protein design and engineering. The I-TASSER algorithm (https://zhanggroup.org/I-TASSER/) developed in his laboratory was ranked as the No 1 most accurate method for automated protein structure prediction in the community-wide CASP experiments nine times in a row since 2006. The Zhang Lab is one of the first laboratories who initiated the studies on deep machine-learning based protein and RNA structure predictions, while the artificial intelligence technique has brought about revolutionary impact on many fields in life science. Among the honours that Dr Zhang received includes the Alfred P Sloan Award, the US National Science Foundation Career Award, and the University of Michigan Basic Science Research Award. He was selected as the Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher for six times since 2015.