I am a PhD student in Computer Science at Kent State University, jointly affiliated with the Cleveland Clinic, advised by Prof. Qiang Guan and co-advised by Dr. Feixiong Cheng.
My research lies at the intersection of quantum computing, high-performance computing, and computational biology. I develop quantum–classical methods and systems for biological structure modeling and drug discovery—from problem formulation and quantum algorithms to utility-scale hardware execution and scientific validation.
- Hardware-Executed Quantum Biocomputing — Biological structure workflows designed for and executed on real quantum processors.
- Quantum Drug Discovery — Quantum methods for protein conformations, binding pockets, docking, and ligand response.
- Quantum–HPC Co-design — Scalable integration of quantum execution, HPC, runtime systems, optimization, and scientific data pipelines.
- Quantum Bioinformatics — Quantum-aware representations of biological sequence, structure, conformational states, and molecular interactions.
 SC25 |
QDockBank Quantum-generated protein-fragment structures for ligand docking. 
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 SC26 |
QSAD Non-iterative quantum sampling for peptide structure reconstruction.
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Qpocket Quantum-guided binding-pocket ensemble generation.
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For publications, research details, and updates, visit yuqizhang.me.
- Email: yzhan135@kent.edu
- Google Scholar: Yuqi Zhang
- ORCID: 0009-0005-9026-6906
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