Yang Jiang
Biography
Dr. Yang Jiang is now an assistant research professor working at O'Brien lab. He obtained his B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT) in 2012. He then joined the National Energy R&D Center for Biorefinery in BUCT as a PhD student in Prof. Tianwei Tan's group, researching molecular modeling of metalloenzymes and self-assembly supermolecules. In 2018, he obtained his PhD in Chemical Engineering and joined the O'Brien lab at Penn State as a post-doc. Since then, he has been investigating the influence of translation-elongation kinetics on protein folding and downstream enzymatic activity using multi-scale simulation techniques.