[2 April 2025] SOIRÉE Dialogue with Distinguished Scientists

Jinbo Xu is the Founder of MoleculeMind Inc., tenured Full Professor of Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (affiliate of University of Chicago), and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Tsinghua University. Jinbo Xu is a world-class computational biologist. He has developed the first AI method RaptorX-Contact that has revolutionized protein structure prediction, on which DeepMind built AlphaFold. Professor Xu was the Senior Fellow of Ilumina Inc and is the associate editor of Bioinformatics，a top journal in the field of bioinformatics. His software RAPTOR/RaptorX has been widely used by academia and industry, and were also licensed by Merck, Genentech and others for protein structure and function prediction.

He won the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship，NSF Early Career Development Award, PLoS Computational Biology Innovation/Breakthrough Prize，and RECOMB (one of the top two computational biology conferences) Best Poster Award, Best Paper Award and Test-of-Time Award.