About
I am a PhD student in quantum biological computing at Kent State University and Cleveland Clinic, advised by Dr. Qiang Guan and Dr. Feixiong Cheng. My core research is quantum computing — algorithms, architectures and systems.
Research
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I build the algorithmic and systems stack for quantum biocomputing, treating quantum computing and computational biology as a single cross-layer research program rather than two adjacent fields. Biological questions determine what information a quantum workflow must recover, while real hardware and system constraints shape the representations, algorithms, sampling strategies, and QC–HPC architectures used to recover it. Across these layers, I study quantum architectures, real-hardware execution and benchmarking, protein structure and conformational landscapes, binding-site prediction, molecular docking, and drug discovery. Biology determines what a useful answer must contain; hardware determines what can be computed; cross-layer co-design closes the gap between them.
Publications
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SC '26
- architecture
- system
to appear2026 -
Adv. Science
- algorithm
- application
12citations2025 -
SC '25
- benchmark
7citations2025
Preprints
Contact
For research discussions, collaboration, or a current copy of my CV — yzhan135 [at] kent.edu. I work in Guan's Research Lab at Kent State. ORCID 0009-0005-9026-6906.
Acknowledgements
To my advisor Dr. Qiang Guan, my co-advisor Dr. Feixiong Cheng, and mentors Dr. Juan Yao, Dr. Zhaofeng Su, Dr. Sanjiang Li and Dr. Yuan Feng. To the 419 Lab team, and to my friend Haojie Zhang, for guiding me into the quantum world.