Dr. Chengkun Wu

Associate Professor, National Key Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Computing, College of Computer Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology

Dr. Chengkun Wu is now an Associate Professor at the  National Key Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Computing, College of Computer Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology. He got his Ph.D. in Systems Biology from the University of Manchester (in the U.K.) in 2014. He is now an important member of the supercomputing team at the National University of Defense Technology. His research primarily focuses on applying supercomputing in interdisciplinary studies, including the use of AI methods in biomedical research. Dr. Wu is the P.I. of several national research grants, and he participates in several flagship projects at the national level. 2021, he and his colleagues were nominated for the ACM Gorden Bell Covid-19 Special Prize for their work in COVID-19 drug screening. He published a few dozen  academic papers in top-tier journals, including Nature Communications, Nature Protocols, Nucleic Acids Research, etc.