Yang Wins Best Presentation at American Control Conference
PhD candidate Laurence Yang has won the Best Presentation in Systems Analysis in Biology and Medicine at the American Control Conference. Yang, who is co-supervised by Professors Krishna Mahadevan and Will Cluett, was recognized for his presentation entitled “Designing Experiments from Noisy Metabolomics Data to Refine Constraint-Based Models.” Yang’s research focuses on developing computational algorithms based on nonlinear optimization and random sampling in order to design microbial strains and refine models used for metabolic engineering and systems biology. The conference was held in Baltimore, Maryland from June 30 to July 2.