Dr. Xu is a postdoctoral fellow at KAUST. Dr. Xu's current interest is on protein design and AI for synthetic biology, with enzyme design as the primary application at the moment. He is leading an industrial collaborative enzyme design project in Prof. Xin Gao’s group, with the goal of optimizing multiple industrial enzymes towards improved application properties. In that project, they successfully optimized multiple enzymes with a ChatGPT-like protein design workflow developed through his PhD study.

Before diving into enzyme design, Dr. Xu explored multiple research topics, including chemical design, antibody design, peptide design, phylogenetics, cancer genomics, and synthetic biology. He also has a wealth of working experience in industry, where he has worked as core members in several big data companies and AI startups, with roles as a data scientist or product manager.

Besides, he served as a reviewer in several journals and conferences,  including Bioinformatics, ACS Synthetic Biology, International Journal of Molecular Sciences,  IEEE Internet of Things Journal, RECOMB, and Heliyon.

Representative works: SGPT-RL, AB-Gen, HELM-GPT, and a ChatGPT-like solution for protein design

Postdoc at KAUST advised by Prof. Xin Gao

Emai: xiaopeng.xu {at} kaust.edu.sa

Personal links: GitHub, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Linkedin, ORCID