Tianshuo Zhou

Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science, School of EECS, Oregon State University Kelley Engineering Center Corvallis, OR, 97331, US Email: zhoutian at oregonstate dot edu

Short Bio

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Oregon State University, advised by Professor Liang Huang. I received my M.S. in Computer Science from Nanjing University in 2020 and my B.E. from Southeast University in 2017. Before starting my Ph.D., I worked as a Machine Learning Engineer at ByteDance from July 2020 to August 2021.

Research Interests

• Computational Biology (AI for Science)
• Computational Linguistics (Natural Language Processing)

Recent Talks

• RECOMB 2025 Proceedings Talk, April 2025
• Eternacon 2024 Invited Talk, July 2024
• RECOMB 2024 Proceedings Talk, May 2024
• ISMB 2023 Proceedings Talk, July 2023

Selected Publications [Google Scholar]

• Scalable and Interpretable Identification of Minimal Undesignable RNA Structure Motifs with Rotational Invariance. (RECOMB 2025) [pdf] [server] [code]
  Tianshuo Zhou, Apoorv Malik, Wei Yu Tang, David H. Mathews, Liang Huang.
• Messenger RNA Design for Ensemble Free Energy via Probabilistic Lattice Parsing. (ISMB 2025, to appear)
  Ning Dai, Tianshuo Zhou, Wei Yu Tang, David H. Mathews, Liang Huang.
• Undesignable RNA Structure Identification via Rival Structure Generation and Structure Decomposition. (RECOMB 2024) [pdf] [code]
  Tianshuo Zhou, Wei Yu Tang, David H. Mathews, Liang Huang.
• RNA Design via Structure-Aware Multi-Frontier Ensemble Optimization. ISMB2023 [pdf] [code]
  Tianshuo Zhou, Ning Dai, Sizhen Li, Max Ward, David H Mathews, Liang Huang.
• GREASE: A Generative Model for Relevance Search over Knowledge Graphs. WSDM2020 [pdf] [code]
  Tianshuo Zhou, Ziyang Li, Gong Cheng, Jun Wang, Yu’Ang Wei.

Academic Service

• Reviewer: Nature Communications (Journal), 2024
• Co-Reviewer: ISMB 2023, 2024, 2025

Teaching

• Guest Lecturer, CS261 Data Structures, Undergraduate course, Oregon State University, Spring 2025
• TA and Guest Lecturer, CS514 Algorithms, Graduate course, Oregon State University, Spring 2025
• Teaching Assistant, CS325 Analysis of Algorithms, Undergraduate course, Oregon State University, Spring 2023 & Spring 2024
• Teaching Assistant, CS514 Algorithms: Design, Analysis, and Implementation, Graduate course, Oregon State University, Fall 2023
• Teaching Assistant, Graph Theory, Undergraduate course, Nanjing University, Fall 2019
• Teaching Assistant, Mathematical Anaylasis, Undergraduate course, Nanjing University, Spring 2019