Computational Drug Discovery and AI
Associate Professor
Centre for Artificial Intelligence Driven Drug Discovery (AIDD)
Faculty of Applied Sciences Macao Polytechnic University
Official: https://www.mpu.edu.mo/esca/en/shirleysiu.php
Lab: https://cbbio.online
Interests
Antimicrobial Peptides (AMP), Anticancer Peptidies (ACP), Molecule Target Prediction, GPCR, Ion Channels, Bacterial drug resistance
Skills
Computer-Aided Drug Design, Molecular Docking, Molecular Dynamics, Protein and Lipid Force Fields, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Swarm Optimization Algorithms
Education
- PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Computational Biology, Saarland University, Germany
- MSc in Computational Molecular Biology, Saarland University & Max-Planck Institute for Computer Science, Germany
- MSc/BSc in Software Engineering, University of Macau, Macau
Academic Positions
- 2023-present Associate Professor, Centre for AI Driven Drug Discovery, Macao Polytechnic University
- 2021-2023 Research Associate Professor, Institute of Science and Environment, University of Saint Joseph
- 2012-2021 Assistant professor, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau
- 2009-2012 Senior instructor, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau
- 2010-2011 Postdoctoral fellow, Computational Biology Group, University of Erlangen, Germany
Besides research, I spend most of my time in day-dreaming. Let’s see what Einstein says about this:
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 