Tianfan Fu
Scholar

Tianfan Fu

Google Scholar ID: KPQ49w4AAAAJ
Nanjing University
AI for DrugAI for ScienceLarge Language Model
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
5,352
 
H-index
26
 
i10-index
44
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
16
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Published multiple papers on AI applications in scientific research in top conferences or journals such as Nature, NeurIPS, ICML; developed software tools like DeepProtein, Practical Molecule Optimization; holds patents including a mobile authentication system based on voiceprint recognition, face recognition, and location service.
Research Experience
  • Currently a tenure-track Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Nanjing University; previously a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Computer Science Department.
Education
  • PhD from the Department of Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2023, supervised by Prof. Jimeng Sun; B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2015 and 2018, respectively, under the supervision of Prof. Kai Yu (2013-2014) and Prof. Zhihua Zhang (2014-2018).
Background
  • Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Nanjing University, and a member of the BigAI (AI with Large Model and Big Data) group. His research interests include AI for drug discovery and clinical trials, large language models, AI for science (biology/chemistry/pharma/health), and AI for healthcare.
Miscellany
  • Contributed to the translation of 'Deep Learning' (Goodfellow et al.), which received over 200K comments on JD and 30K+ stars on GitHub.