Cuncong Zhong

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Educational Background:

• University of Central Florida - Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science (current)
• University of Central Florida - M.S. in Computer Science (2009)
• Huazhong University of Science and Technology - B.S. in Biotechnology (2007)
• Huazhong University of Science and Technology - B.S. in Computer Science (2007)
• Nanyang Technological University - Exchange program in Chemical Engineering (2006)

Research Interests:

• Combinatorial algorithms
• RNA homolog search and de novo identification
• RNA structural alignment
• Clustering
• Next-generation sequencing
• Epigenetics

Software:

• RNAMotifScan

Publications:

• Zhong, C., Tang, H. and Zhang, S. (2010) RNAMotifScan: automatic identification of RNA structural motifs using secondary structural alignment. Nucleic Acids Res., 38(18): e176. [link]
• Zhang, S and Zhong, C.. (2010) Computational tools for RNA structural motif identification. Biotech International, Vol 22, page 6-9, Nov. 2010. (featured article). [link]
• Mazar, J., Khaitan, D., DeBlasio, D., Zhong, C., Govindarajan, S., Kopanathi, S., Zhang, S., Ray, A. and Perera, R. (2011) Epigenetic Regulation of MicroRNA Genes and the Role of miR-34b in Cell Invasion and Motility in Human Melanoma. PLoS ONE 6(9): e24922. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0024922 [link]
• Zhong, C. and Zhang, S. (2012) Clustering RNA structural motifs in ribosomal RNAs using secondary structural alignment. Nucleic Acids Res., 40, 1307-1317. [link]
• Zhong, C., Andrews. J, and Zhang, S. (2012) Discovering Non-coding RNA elements in drosophila 3' untranslated regions. In 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS 2012). in press

Advisor

Dr. Shaojie Zhang

Homepage: http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~shzhang/