Yu (Brandon) Xia

I am an Assistant Professor in the Bioinformatics Program and the Department of Chemistry at Boston University.

Previously I was a Jane Coffin Childs Fellow in the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University. I received my Ph.D. in Chemistry from Stanford University, and B.S. in Chemistry (major) and Computer Science (minor) from Peking University.

Positions

• BOSTON UNIVERSITY, Boston, MA. 2006-present

Assistant Professor, Bioinformatics Program and Department of Chemistry

Education

• YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, CT. 2003-2006

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Research in computational biology and bioinformatics

• STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, CA

Ph.D. in Chemistry, 2003

Thesis research in computational structural biology

• PEKING UNIVERSITY, Beijing, China

B.S. in Chemistry with Minor in Computer Science, 1995

Undergraduate thesis research in chemical physics

Selected Honors and Awards

• PhRMA Foundation Research Starter Grant in Informatics (2008-2010)
  
• Fellowship of the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research (2004-2006)
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute Predoctoral Fellowship in Biological Sciences (1996-2001)
• Baosteel Scholarship (1993)
• Gold Medal, International Chemistry Olympiad (1990)