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Past

Research Staff

Qiyao Zhu, Ph.D.

Flatiron Research Fellow, Center for Computational Biology

Bio

Qiyao Zhu joined the Center for Computational Biology (CCB) in January 2024. Her research interests include cyclic peptide-based drug designs, with a focus on addressing the high-dimensionality challenges inherent in physics-based peptide modeling. Qiyao holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from New York University and a bachelor’s degree in Applied Mathematics from UCLA.

Publications

The Denario project: Deep knowledge AI agents for scientific discovery

arxiv:2510.26887, October 30, 2025

Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Boris Bolliet, Pablo Villanueva-Domingo, Adrian E. Bayer, et al.

Heuristic energy-based cyclic peptide design

Computational Biology, bioRxiv, April 30, 2025

Qiyao Zhu, Vikram Mulligan, and Dennis Shasha

Events

Science, Society & Culture

Math in Bloom

In Conversation

August 7, 2026

6–8 p.m. ET

Speakers

Qiyao Zhu, Morgan Potter, Regina Forlenza, Elizabeth Simolke

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Morgan Potter headshot
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Elizabeth Simolke headshot.

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