Research Interests

• Computational Biology (Protein Folding Pathways and Kinetics, Ligand Binding)
• Motion Planning, Robotics, Human-Computer Cooperation
• Quantum Computing

Education

Ph.D.

Computer Science, Texas A&M University, August 2003. Ph.D. Thesis: A Motion Planning Approach to Protein Folding Thesis advisor: Prof. Nancy M. Amato

MS

Physics, Texas A&M University, May 1998

B.S.

Physics, Jilin University, China, July 1992

Publications

• Guang Song and Nancy M. Amato, ``A Motion Planning Approach to Folding: From Paper Craft to Protein Folding,'' IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, accepted, to appear in the Feburary 2004 issue.
• Guang Song, Shawna L. Thomas and Nancy M. Amato, ``A General Framework for PRM Motion Planning,'' in Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), September 2003, Taiwan, to appear.
• Nancy M. Amato, Ken A. Dill, and Guang Song, ``Using Motion Planning to Map Protein Folding Landscapes and Analyze Folding Kinetics of Known Native Structures,'' Journal of Computational Biology, 10(3-4):239-256, 2003. Featuring selected papers from RECOMB 2002.
• Guang Song and Andreas Klappenecker, ``Optimal Realizations of Controlled Unitary Gates,'' Journal of Quantum Information and Computation, 3(2):139-155, 2003.
• Guang Song, Shawna L. Thomas, Ken A. Dill, J. Martin Scholtz and Nancy M. Amato, ``A Path Planning-based Study of Protein Folding with a Case Study of Hairpin Formation in Protein G and L,'' in Proceedings of the 2003 Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), pp. 240-251, January 2003, Hawaii, U.S.A. Nancy M. Amato, Ken A. Dill, and Guang Song, ``Using Motion Planning to Map Protein Folding Landscapes and Analyze Folding Kinetics of Known Native Structures,'' in Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB), pp. 2-11, April 2002, Washington D.C., U.S.A.
• Nancy M. Amato and Guang Song, ``Using Motion Planning to Study Protein Folding Pathways,'' Journal of Computational Biology, 9(2):149-168, 2002. Featuring selected papers from RECOMB 2001.
• Guang Song and Nancy M. Amato, ``Randomized Motion Planning for Car-like Robots with C-PRM,'' in Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pp. 37-42, November 2001, Hawaii, U.S.A.
• Guang Song and Nancy M. Amato, ``A Motion Planning Approach to Folding: From Paper Craft to Protein Folding,'' in Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 948-953, May 2001, Seoul, Korea. One of six finalists selected from 678 accepted papers for Best Student Paper Award.
• O. Burchan Bayazit, Guang Song, and Nancy M. Amato, ``Ligand Binding with OBPRM and User Input,'' in Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 954-959, May 2001, Seoul, Korea.
• Guang Song, Shawna Miller, Nancy M. Amato, ``Customizing PRM Roadmaps at Query Time,'' in Proceedings of the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 1500-1505, May 2001, Seoul, Korea.
• Guang Song and Nancy M. Amato, ``Using Motion Planning to Study Protein Folding Pathways,'' in Proceedings the 5th ACM International Conference on Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB), pp. 287-296, April 2001, Montreal, Canada.
• O. Burchan Bayazit, Guang Song, Nancy M. Amato, ``Enhancing Randomized Motion Planners: Exploring with Haptic Hints,'' Autonomous Robots, 10(2):163-174, 2001. Special issue on Personal Robotics.
• O. Burchan Bayazit, Guang Song, Nancy M. Amato, ``Enhancing Randomized Motion Planners: Exploring with Haptic Hints,'' in Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp. 529-536, April 2000, San Francisco, California.

• Guang Song, Bao-An Li, Che-Ming Ko, ``Antikaon Production and Medium Effects in Heavy-Ion Collisions at AGS,'' Nuclear Physics A, 646(4):481-499, 1999.
• Zhongqi Wang, Benhao Sa, Guang Song, Xiaoze Zhang, Zhongdao Lu, Yuming Zheng, ``Rescattering Effect of Pion on K/PI Ratio in Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions,'' Nuclear Physics A, 566:495-498, 1994.
• Zhongqi Wang, Benhao Sa, Xiaoze Zhang, Guang Song, Zhongdao Lu, Yuming Zheng, ``Systematic Behavior of K/PI Ratio in Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions,'' Physical Review C, 48(6):2995-2999, 1993.
• Zhongqi Wang, Benhao Sa, Xiaoze Zhang, Zhongdao Lu, Guang Song, Yuming Zheng, ``Rapidity, Transverse Mass Distribution and Nuclear Stopping in 14.6GeV/c Si+Au Reactions,'' Chinese Physics Letters, 10:468, 1993.

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