Dr. Yang Cao received PhD in Computer Science from University of California at Santa Barbara. He joined the Computer Science Department at Virginia Tech as an assistant professor in 2006 and became an associate professor in 2012. Dr. Cao has been active in the area of computational systems biology, particularly in modeling and simulation of stochastic effects. He has collaborated with with many researchers in related areas. He has won the prestigious NSF early career award and two best paper awards.
Dr. Cao’s research interest spans many areas of computational science, such as numerical solution of ordinary differential equations and differential algebraic equations, sensitivity analysis, adjoint methods, multiscale simulation, and stochastic modeling and simulation in biochemical systems. His recent research interest focuses on the modeling and simulation of stochastic effects in biological systems.
