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Hsueh-Fen Juan ( 阮雪芬; Yuki )

Hsueh-Fen Juan was born in 1969, Miao-Li, Taiwan. She received her BS and MS degree in Botany and PhD in Biochemical Sciences from National Taiwan University (NTU) in 1999. She worked as a research scientist in the Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (Tsukuba, Japan) during 2000-2001 and a postdoctoral research fellow in the Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan) during 2001-2002.

Distinguished Professor

  • Department of Life Science,
  • Institute of Molecular & Cellular Biology,
  • Institute of Biomedical Electronics & Bioinformatics,
  • Genome and Systems Biology Degree Program,
  • Center for Systems Biology and Bioinformatics,
  • National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
  • CV in PDF (Aug., 2020)

Research

  • Systems biology
  • Proteomics
  • Bioinformatics
  • Transcriptomics
  • Synthetic biology
  • Cancer biology
  • Drug discovery
  • Bioenergy

Education

  • 1994-1999 Ph.D., molecular modeling & protein chemistry
    • (advisers: Kung-Tsung Wang & Shyh-Horng Chiou)
    • Graduate Institute of Biochemical Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
  • 1992-1994 M.S., plant physiology
    • (adviser: Yih-Ming Chen) Graduate Institute of Botany, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
  • 1988-1992 B.S., botany
    • Department of Botany, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Honors and Awards

  • 2017-2018 Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) Award for Special Talents of the Colleges
  • 2015 Emerging Information and Technology Association (EITA) Service Award (USA)
  • 2015 NTU Academic Performance Reward
  • 2010-2015 Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST)/National Science Council (NSC) Award for Special Talents of the Colleges
  • 2012 K. T. Li Breakthrough Award by Institute of Information and Computing Machinery
  • 2012 The Ph.D. Dissertation Advisor Award by Institute of Information and Computing Machinery
  • 2011 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship
  • 2010-2013, National Science Council (NSC) Award for Special Talents of the Colleges
  • 2008 Taiwan's Ten Outstanding Young Persons
  • 2010 NTU Excellent Paper Award
  • 2006~2009, 2011~2012 NTU Distinguish Paper Award
  • 2007 National Science Council Foreign Short Term Research Fellowship
  • 2006 Ministry of Education (MOE) Overseas Research Fellowship
  • 1999 Selected Oral Presentation in 14th Joint Annual Conference of Biomedical Sciences
  • 1993 The membership in The Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society
  • 1992-1994 Ministry of Education (MOE) Top 10% Excellent Master Student Scholarship
  • 1992 Certificate in “Multi-Dimensional NMR Spectroscopy in Solution”, Academia Sinica
  • 1991-1992 The Chung-Cheng Scholarship
  • 1992 The 1st Place at Department of Botany, NTU, Taiwan
  • 1989-1992 National Taiwan University Presidential Award
  • 1989-1992 The Scholarship for Talented Students in Mathematics and Natural Science
  • 1988-1989 The Bursary and Excellence Scholarship
  • 1989 The Thoughts of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Scholarship
  • 1985-1987 Talented Students in the Training Program for Biological Science in Academia Sinica
  • 1985-1988 Talented Students in Mathematics Class of Taipei Municipal First Girls' Senior High School

Professional Experiences

  • 2020/04-now
    • Key Director, Taiwan AI Labs
  • 2015/05-now
    • Editorial Board, Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group)
  • 2009/08-now
    • Professor, Department of Life Science, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, NTU, Taiwan
  • 2015/08-2017/7
    • Convener, Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics
  • 2008/08-2009/12
    • Leader of Technology Service Group, Center for Biotechnology, NTU, Taiwan
  • 2006/08-2009/07
    • Associate Professor, Department of Life Science, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, NTU, Taiwan
  • 2007/08-2008/02
    • Visiting Scholar, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, USA (Dr. James Liao's Laboratory)
  • 2006/06-2007/02
    • Deputy Director Center for Systems Biology and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University
  • 2006/08-2009/07
    • Associate Professor, Department of Life Science, Institute of Molecular & Cellular Biology, National Taiwan University
  • 2006/07-2006/08
    • Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan (Dr. Hirotada Mori's Laboratory)
  • 2004/08-2006/07
    • Assistant Professor, Department of Life Science, Institute of Molecular & Cellular Biology, National Taiwan University
  • 2003/2 – 2004/7
    • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, NTU, Taiwan
  • 2002/08-2004/07
    • Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology
  • 2001/08-2002/07
    • Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
  • 2001/04-2001/07
    • Research Associate, Division of Bioresource, Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan
  • 2000/08-2001/03
    • Research Assistant, Division of Bioresource, Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences, Japan