Tianshuo Zhou

Ph.D. in Computer Science,
School of EECS, Oregon State University

Kelley Engineering Center
Corvallis, OR, 97331, US
Email: zhoutian at oregonstate dot edu

Research Interests

Computational Biology (AI for Science)
Computational Linguistics (Natural Language Processing)
Data Mining

Selected Publications

(See Google Scholar for the full publication list)

Probabilistic RNA Designability via Interpretable Ensemble Approximation and Dynamic Decomposition. (ISMB 2026, to appear) [pdf] [code]

Tianshuo Zhou, David H. Mathews, Liang Huang.
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.
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.

Recent Talks

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

Academic Service

Reviewer: Nature Communications (2024), Bioinformatics (2025), ACM BCB (2025, 2026), Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal (2026)
Co-Reviewer: ISMB (2023, 2024, 2025), RECOMB (2026)

Teaching

Guest Lecturer, CS261 Data Structures [slides], Oregon State University, Spring 2025
TA and Guest Lecturer [slides], CS514 Algorithms, Graduate course, Oregon State University, Spring 2025
Teaching Assistant, CS325 Analysis of Algorithms, 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, Nanjing University, Fall 2019
Teaching Assistant, Mathematical Analysis, Nanjing University, Spring 2019