Research Directions

Dr. Tzong-Yi Lee received the B.S. degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Central University (NCU), Taiwan and the Ph.D. degree in Bioinformatics from National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan, in 2002 and 2008, respectively. From 2009 to 2017, Dr. Lee was an Assistant Professor (2009), Associate Professor (2012), and Professor (2015) with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Yuan Ze University, Taiwan. From 2018 to 2022, he was recruited as an Presidential Young Scholar (Associate Professor) and the Program Coordinator of Bioinformatics at the School of Life and Health Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. Currently, he is a professor at the Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. Dr. Lee’s research interests emphasized on Biological Big Data Analysis and Deep Learning Computation, including bioinformatics, genomics and proteomics, network biology, Pan-cancer Omics analysis, single cell sequencing and spatial transcriptomics, AI-driven drug design, biological database design and software development. His research team currently specializes in protein post-translational modifications (PTMs), protein ubiquitylation and E3 ligases regulations, antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), multidrug-resistant pathogens diagnosis, Omics-based pan-cancer analysis, spatial transcriptomcis, and AI-driven drug design.

     Dr. Lee has published over 130 articles on high-quality SCI journals, including Nucleic Acids Research, Briefings in Bioinformatics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Cell Reports, Bioinformatics, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, etc. According to Google Scholar statistics, the number of citations is over 7,000 and the H-index is 42. These research achievements had awarded him with Young Scholar Research Award (2011), Outstanding Research Award (2012 and 2016), and the Y. Z. Hsu Outstanding Professor Award (2015) in Taiwan. Recently, he was awarded as the Outstanding Youth of The Pearl River Talent Recruitment Program” of Guangdong Province in 2020. Additionally, he is one of the Editorial Board Members of Genomics, Proteomics, and Bioinformatics (GPB), Proteomics & Bioinformatics: Current Research, International Journal of Bioinformatics & Biological Systems (IJBBS), and Informatics since 2015. In 2022, Dr. Lee was honored as the World’s Top 2% Scientists in Bioinformatics, according to the analysis of Stanford University.