简介唐继军博士，天津大学计算机学院特聘教授，博士生导师，天津市“****”入选者。1994年获得天津大学海船系船舶工程学士，1996年获得天津大学海洋工程硕士，2004年获得美国新墨西哥大学计算机科学博士学位。从2004年起任职美国南卡罗莱纳大学工程和计算学院计算机系至终身教授。主要研究领域为生物信息，计算生物学，可视化和虚拟现实，研究方向为算法设计分析，高性能计算，数据库构建等。主要通过算法，人工智能以及数学和统计方法，利用全基因组数据高效和精确分析基因组进化和系统发育，建立和显示基因组三维空间模型，采集和挖掘生态和气候变化数据，以及构建相关生物信息学计算平台。研究项目多次获得美国NSF，NIH，NEH和其他机构的支持，迄今在国际会议和期刊上发表文章60余篇，他引次数600余次。培养博士和硕士研究生十余人，多数在美国知名高校，研究所和公司任职。将致力于创建一流的计算生物学研究团队，保持具有国际学术前沿竞争力的研究能力，提高天津大学在生命科学研究方向的国际知名度。

教育经历 1994B.S. Naval Architecture,Tianjin University
1996M.S. Offshore Engineering,Tianjin University
2002M.S. Computer Science,University of New Mexico
2004Ph.D. Computer Science,University of New Mexico

工作经历2004-2009 AssistantProfessor, Universityof South Carolina
2009- AssociateProfessor, Universityof South Carolina
2013- 天津大学计算机学院特聘教授，博士生导师

其他信息科学组织成员SigmaXi, ACM, ISCB, IEEE杂志审稿Bioinformatics, BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Evolutionary Biology, BMCGenomics, Journal of Computational Biology, IEEE/ACM Transaction onBioinformatics andComputational Biology, International Journal on Data Mining andBioinformatics, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and DistributedSystems, Systematic Biology, Genes, Genomics, Evolutionary Genomics,IEEETransaction on Information Theory会议组委会IEEEInternational Conference on Granular Computing (GrC), InternationalWorkshop onAlgorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI), IEEEConference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE), InternationalConf. on Biomedical Engineering and Informatics (BMEI), ACMConference on Bioinformatics (ACM-BCB), Intl. Symposium on NetworkEnabled HealthInformatics, Biomedicine and Bioinfo.荣誉 1999: Excellentin Graduate Research, Sigma Xi UNM Chapter
2000: InternationalExcellence Award, U. New Mexico
2004: OutstandingGraduate Student, Computer Science, U. New Mexico
2009: ResearchProgress Award, Coll. of Eng. & Comp, Univ. of South Carolina
论文期刊 Gao, N., Yang, N. and Tang, J.,“Ancestral Genome Inference using a Genetic Algorithm Approach,” PLoSone 8(5):e62156, 2013.Luo, H., Arndt, W., Zhang, Y., Shi, J.,Alekseyev, M., Tang, J., Hughes, A. and Friedman, R., "PhylogeneticAnalysis of Genome Rearrangements among Five Mammalian Orders,"MolecularPhylogenetics and Evolution, 65 (3): 871-882, 2012.Hu, L., Zhang, M., Zhang, Y. and Tang,J., "Label-guided Graph Exploration with Adjustable Ration ofLabels," International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science 23(04),903-929, 2012.Zhang, Y., Hu, F. and Tang, J., "AMixture Framework for Inferring Ancestral Gene Orders," APBC 2012, inBMCBioinformatics, 13(Suppl 1):S7, 2012. Sakib, M., Tang, J., Zheng, W. andHuang, C., "Improving Transmission Efficiency of Large SequenceAlignment/Map (SAM) Files," PLoS ONE, 6(12):e28251, 2011.Zhang, M., Zhang, Y., Tang, J. and Bai,X.," Multi-pattern Matching with Wildcards," Journal of Software6(12): 2391-2398, 2011. Luo, H., Tang, J., Friedman, R.and Hughes, A., "Ongoing purifying selection on the intergenic spacersinthe group A streptococcus," Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 11,343-348, 2011. Kang, S., Tang, J., Schaeffer, S. andBader, A., "Rec-DCM-Eigen: Reconstructing a Less Parsimonious but MoreAccurate Tree in Shorter Time," PLoS One, 6(8): e22483, 2011.Luo, H., Friedman, R., Tang, J. andHughes, A., "Genome Reduction by Deletion of Paralogs in the MarineCyanobacterium Prochlorococcus," Mol Biol Evol, 28 (10), 2751-2760,2011.Asbury, T., Mitman, M., Tang, J. and Zheng, W.,“Genome3D: Aviewer-model framework for integrating and visualizing multi-scaleepigenomicinformation within a three-dimensional genome,” BMC Bioinformatics, 11,444,2010. Shi, J., Zhang, Y., Luo, H. and Tang, J., “UsingJackknife toAssessthe Quality of Gene Order Phylogenies,” BMC Bioinformatics, 11 (168),2010. Luo, H. Shi, J., Arndt, W., Tang, J. and Friedman,R., “GeneOrderPhylogeny of the Genus Prochlorococcus,” PLoS ONE 3(12): e3837, 2009. Luo, H., Sun, Z., Arndt, W., Shi, J., Friedman, R. andTang, J.,"Gene Order Phylogeny and the Evolution of Methanogens," PLoS ONE4(6):e6069.Yue, F., Shi, J., and Tang, J., "Simultaneous phylogenyreconstructionand multiple sequence alignment", Proc. 7th Asia-Pacific Conf onBioinformatics, in BMC Bioinformatics, 10 (suppl1):s11, 2009Swenson, K.M., Dong, Y., Tang, J., and Moret, B.M.E,"Maximum independent sets of commuting and noninterferinginversions," Proc. 7th Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conf. (APBC 2009),inBMC Bioinformatics 2009, 10(Suppl 1):S6. Yue, F. and Tang, J., “A Space-Efficient Algorithm forThreeSequence Alignment and Ancestor Inference,” International Journal ofData Mining and Bioinformatics, 3(2), 192-204 (2009). Yue, F., Zhang, M. and Tang, J., “PhylogeneticReconstruction from Transposition,” BMC Genomics, 2008, 9(Suppl 2):S15. Yue, F., Cui, L., dePamphilis, C.Moret, B., and Tang, J., “Gene rearrangement analysis from chloroplastgenomes withinverted repeat,” BMC Genomics, 2008, 9 (Suppl 1):S25. Arndt, W. and Tang, J., “ImprovingReversal Median Computation using Commuting Reversals and CycleInformation,”Journal of Computational Biology, 15 (8) 1079-1092, 2008. Cui, L., Leebens-Mack, J., Wang, L., Tang, J., Rymarquis,L., Stern,D., and dePamphilis, C., “Adaptive Evolution ofChloroplast Genome Structure Inferred Using a Parametric BootstrapApproach,” BMC EvolutionaryBiology, 6:13, 2006. Tang, J., and Moret, B., “Scaling up accuratephylogenetic reconstruction from gene-order data,” Proc. 11th Int'lConf. on IntelligentSystems for Molecular Biology (ISMB2003), in Bioinformatics19 (Suppl. 1) (2003), i305-i312.Moret, B., Tang, J., Wang, L., andWarnow, T., “Stepstoward accurate reconstruction of phylogenies from gene-order data,” J.Comput.Syst. Sci.65, 3 (2002), 508-525. 会议（经审稿录用） Hu, F., Zhou, J., Zhou, L. and Tang,J., “Probabilistic Reconstruction of Ancestral Genomes with GeneInsertions andDeletions,” 12th Asia PacificBioinformatics Conference (APBC), accepted,2014.Yin, Z., Tang, J., Schaeffer, S. andBader, D., "Streaming Breakpoint Graph Analytics for Accelerating andParallelizing the Computation of DCJ Median of Three Genomes,"Proceedingsof the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS):561-570, 2013.Gao, N., Hu, F. and Tang, J., "AGenetic Algorithm for the Reversal Median Problem," 5th InternationalConference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICoB), 2013.Hu, F., Zhou, L. and Tang, J.,“Reconstructing Ancestral Genomic Orders Using Binary Encoding andProbabilistic Models,” 9th International Symposium on BioinformaticsResearchand Applications (ISBRA), 17-21, 2013. Lin,Y., Hu, F., Tang, J. and Moret, B.,"Maximum Likelihood Phylogenetic Reconstruction from High-ResolutionWhole-Genome Data and a Tree of 68 Eukaryotes," Pacific Symposium onBiocomputing 18:285-296, 2013. Shepherd, J., Doe, R., Arnold, M., Zhu,Y. and Tang, J., "A different approach to teaching Chinese throughSeriousGames," Foundation of Digital Games, 304-306, 2011.Hu, F., Gao, N. and Tang, J.,"Maximum Likelihood Phylogenetic Reconstruction Using Gene OrderEncodings", the eighth Annual IEEE Symposium on ComputationalIntelligencein Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB), 117-122, 2011.Shi, J., Arndt, W. and Tang, J.,"Isolating - A New Resampling Method for Gene Order Data," the eighthAnnual IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in BioinformaticsandComputational Biology (CIBCB), 135-140, 2011. Arndt, W. and Tang, J., "EmulatingInsertion and Deletion Events in Genome Rearrangement Analysis," 2011IEEEInternational Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM'11),105-108.Shepherd, J., Doe, R., Arnold, M.,Cheek, N., Zhu, Y. and Tang, J., "Lost in the Middle Kingdom: a secondlanguage acquisition video game," ACM Southeast Regional Conference2011:290-294, 2011.Zhang, T., Shepherd, J., Tang, J. andDougal, R.A., "A Gaming Environment Approach to Analysis of EnergyStoragefor Electric/Hybrid Vehicle," 2011 International Conference on CleanElectrical Power, 400-406, 2011.Shi, J., Dougal, R. Langland, B., Tang,J. and Zhang, Y., "New Basic Linear Algebra Methods for Simulation onGPUs," Grand Challenges in Modeling and Simulation (GCMS), 258-265,2011.Zhang, Y., Dougal, R., Leonard, R., andTang, J., "Optimally applying latency insertion method in large systemmodels,"Grand Challenges in Modeling and Simulation (GCMS), 271-276, 2011.Zhang, T., Dougal, R., Shepherd, J. andTang, J., "The Simulation Tool for Mission-Optimized System Design,"Grand Challenges in Modeling and Simulation, 348-355, 2011.Zhang, M., Zhang, Y. and Tang, J.,"Matching a set of patterns with wildcards," Third InternationalSymposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Programming(PAAP'10).Zhang, Y., Hu, F. and Tang, J., “PhylogeneticReconstruction with Gene Rearrangements and Gene Losses,” IEEEInternationalConference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, (BIBM 2010).Shepherd, J., Dougal, R. and Tang, J., “TheSimulation andDataVisualization Potential of Microsoft's XNA,” Grand Challenges inModelingSimulation, 306-310, 2010.Shepherd, J., Tang, J. and O’Kane, J., "Path-Finding withMotion Constraints in Real Time Strategies," 2nd Annual InternationalConference on Computer Games and Allied Technology (CGAT 2009), 83-90.Shi, J. and Tang, J., “An Experimental Evaluation ofCorrectedInversion and DCJ Distance Metric through Simulation,” 4thInternationalConference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE), 2010.Zhang, M., Arndt, W. and Tang, J., “An ExactMedian Solver forthe DCJ Distance,” Proc. 2009 Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB),138-149,2009.Zhang, Y., Dougal, R., Langland, B.,Shi, J. and Tang, J., “Method forpartitioning large system models when using latency insertion method tospeednetwork solution,” Conference on Grand Challenges in Modeling andSimulation,2009.Guo, Y., Ye, F. and Tang, J., "Phylogenetic Reconstructionwith Disk-Covering and Bayesian Approaches," Proc. 8th IEEEInternationalConference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE 2008).Zhang, M., Arndt, W. and Tang, J., "A Branch-and-BoundMethod for the Multichromosomal Reversal MedianProblem," Proc. 8th Int'l Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics(WABI2008), in Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics 5251, 14-24.Yue, F. and Tang, J., “A New Approach for Tree AlignmentBased onLocal Re-Optimization,” 2008 International Conference on BioMedicalEngineeringand Informatics (BMEI 2008), 34-38.Swenson, K., Arndt, W., Tang, J. and Moret, B.,“PhylogeneticReconstruction from Complete Gene Orders of Whole Genomes,” Sixth AsiaPacificBioinformatics Conference (APBC 2008), in Advances in BioinformaticsandComputational Biology, Vol. 6, 241–250, Imperial Press (2008).Shepherd, J., Shi, J., Zhang, T., Tang,J., and Dougal, R., "Application of multiplayer computer gamingparadigmto engineering Design Tools", 2008 Summer Simulation Multi-conference,Grand Challenges in Modeling and Simulation, Edinburgh, Scotland.Yue, F. and Tang, J., “A Divide-and-ConquerImplementation of Three Sequence Alignment and Ancestor Inference withAffine GapCosts,” IEEEInternational Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2007),143–150.Bakos, J., Elenis, P., and Tang, J., “FPGA Acceleration ofPhylogeny Reconstruction for Whole Genome Data,” Proc. 7th IEEE Conf.on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering(BIBE 2007), 888–895.Yue, F., Zhang, M. and Tang, J., “A Heuristic forPhylogenetic Reconstruction Using Transposition,” Proc. 7th IEEE Conf.on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering(BIBE 2007), 802–808.Arndt, W. and Tang, J., “Improving Inversion MedianComputation using Commuting Reversals and Cycle Information,” FifthAnnual RECOMBSatellite Workshop on Comparative Genomics (RECOMB-CG 2007), in LectureNotesin Computer Science 4751, 30-44.Ye, F., Guo, Y., Lawson, A. and Tang, J. “Improving TreeSearchin Phylogenetic Reconstruction from Genome Rearrangement Data,” 6thWorkshop onExperimental Algorithms, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4525,352-364.Dalal, P., Munsell, B.C., Wang, S.,Tang, J., Oliver, K., Ninomiya, H., Zhou, X. and Fujita, H., “A Fast 3DCorrespondenceMethod for Statistical Shape Modeling,” IEEE Conference on ComputerVision and Pattern Recognition(CVPR 2007). Zhang, M. and Tang, J., “Succinct Text Indexes onLarge Alphabet,” Third Annual Conference on Theory and Applications ofModels ofComputation (TAMC 2006), 528–537.Tang, J. and Wang, L., “Improving GenomeRearrangement Phylogeny Using Sequence-Style Parsimony,” Proc. 5th IEEEConf. onBioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE 2005),137–144. Liu, T., Tang, J., and Moret, B., “Quartet methods forphylogeny reconstruction from gene orders,” Proc. 11th Int'l Computingand Combinatorics Conference (COCOON 2005), 63–73. Tang, J., and Moret, B., “Linear programming forphylogenetic reconstruction based on gene rearrangements,” Proc. 16thSymp. onCombinatorial Pattern Matching, (CPM 2005), 406–416. Tang, J., Moret, B.M.E., Cui, L., anddePamphilis, C., “Phylogenetic reconstruction from arbitrary gene-orderdata,” Proc. 4th IEEE Conf. onBioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE2004), 592-599. Tang, J., and Moret, B., “Phylogeneticreconstruction from gene rearrangement data with unequal genecontents,” Proc. 8th Workshop onAlgorithms and Data Structures (WADS2003), in LectureNotes in Computer Science 2748, 37–46. Moret, B., Siepel, A., Tang, J., andLiu, T., “Inversionmedians outperform breakpoint medians in phylogeny reconstruction fromgene-order data,” Proc. 2nd Int'l Workshop on Algorithms inBioinformatics (WABI2002), in LectureNotes in Computer Science 2452,521–536.
书章节Moret, B.M.E., Lin, Y., and Tang, J.,"Rearrangements in phylogenetic inference: Compare, model, orencode?" in Models and Algorithms for Genome Evolution, vol. 19 ofComputational Biology series, Chauve, C., et al., eds, Springer Verlag(2013),147-172.Moret, B.M.E., Tang, J., and Warnow.T., "Reconstructing phylogenies from gene-content and gene-orderdata," in Mathematics of Evolution and Phylogeny, O. Gascuel, ed.,OxfordUniv. Press (2005), 321-352.
书主编BenjaminJ. Raphael, Jijun Tang (Eds.): Algorithms in Bioinformatics –Proceedings forthe 12th International Workshop, WABI 2012. Lecture Notes in ComputerScience7534, Springer 2012, ISBN 978-3-642-33121-3.

完成的研究项目NSFOCI ** (09/01/2009-08/31/2013)
CollaborativeResearch: Understanding Whole-genome Evolution through PetascaleSimulation.

NationalEndowment of Humanities HT-50046-11 (10/01/2011-12/31/2012)
HighPerformance Computing Collaboratory.

Officeof Naval Research N00014-07-1-0686 (06/01/2007-05/31/2011)
Infusionof a Gaming Paradigm into Computer-Aided Engineering Design Tools.

NSFCNS ** (06/01/2007-05/31/2011)
CRI:CRD Acquisition of a High-Performance Shared-Memory Computer forBiological andMedical Research in South Carolina. Total amount is $470,000.

NIHR01 GM078991 Administrative Supplement (09/01/2009-05/31/2010)
PhylogeneticAnalysis with Complex Genome Rearrangement Events.

NIHR01 GM078991 (06/01/2006-05/31/2010)
PhylogeneticAnalysis with Complex Genome Rearrangement Events.

Univ.of South Carolina Internal Grant (06/01/2009-09/30/2010)
AlgorithmDevelopment to Reconstruct Ancestral Genomes.

Subcontractto NSF CIPRES project (NSF EF 03-31654) (10/01/2005-09/30/2006)
PhylogeneticMultiple Sequence Alignment

SummerSupport from National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (Funded by NSF)(Summer2005)
Algorithmdevelopment for gene-order phylogeny

教学和指导学生 开课CSCE552 Computer Game Design (seven times)
CSCE146 Algorithm Design II (once)
CSCE206 Scientific Computing (once)
CSCE245 Object Oriented Programming (five times)
CSCE500 Perl Programming for Biologist (once)
CSCE555 Algorithms in Bioinformatics (four times),
CSCE850 Advanced Algorithm (once).

已毕业博士生 Fei Hu
Topic: Phylogeny and Ancestral Genome Reconstruction fromGene Order using Maximum Likelihood and Binary Encoding
Started in Fall 2009, Graduated in Fall 2013
Will start in Amazon

Yiwei Zhang
Topic: Graph based optimization for scientific computing
Started in Fall 2008, graduated in Aug 2012
Now in Microsoft

Jian Shi
Topic: Improving Simulation Performance with GPUs
Started in Spring 2008, graduated in Aug 2011
Now in Unitrends

William Arndt
Topic: Phylogenetic reconstruction with gene order andcontent information
Started in Fall 2006, graduated in Aug 2011
Now Research Scientist in Howard Hughes Medical Institute(HHMI)

Haiwei Luo
Co-advised, Advisor Dr. Bob Friedman (Bio)
Topic: Evolutionary analysis of large-scale genomic changes
Graduated in May 2010.
Now Post-doc in University of Georgia

Yan Guo (Pursuing Ph.D.)
Topic: Phylogenetic Reconstruction with Bayesian Approach
Started in Summer 2005, graduated in May 2009
Now Assistant Professor in Department of Cancer Biology,Vanderbilt University and Technical Director for BioinformaticsVanderbiltCenter for Quantitative Sciences.

Feng Yue
Topic: Simultaneously Phylogenetic Reconstruction andMultiple Sequence Alignment
Started in Spring 2005, graduated in May 2008
Recipient of Outstanding Graduate Student, CSCE, 2008
Now tenure track Assistant Professor in Penn StateUniversity

Fei Ye
Co-advised, Advisor Dr. John Drane (Biostatistics)
Topic: Statistic Approaches for High ThroughputBioinformatics Data
Graduated in Summer 2007
Now Assistant Professor in Vanderbilt University

已毕业硕士生Thorben Primke
Topic: New Heuristics for Genome Median Problems
Started in Fall 2006, graduated in May 2008
Now software engineer in Facebook.

Jeremiah Shepherd (Pursuing Master Degree)
Topic: Massive Multiplayer Game Technologies to ImproveEngineering Simulation
Started in Summer 2007, graduated in 2009
Now continue to pursue Ph.D. in my lab

指导的本科生Safiya Moran (Summer 2007), Patrick Clements and JeremyPesner (Summer 2008), David He (Spring 2008), Nadine Luedicke (2011),EdwardKim (2012), Morgan Honaker (2012), Kevin Wang (2013), Robert Bailey(2013),Logan Hood (2012-2013)