Andrew Ferguson
Assistant Professor
BIOCHEMISTRY
The Institute for Genomic Biology
United States of America
Biography
Professor Andrew Ferguson received an M.Eng. with first class honors in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London in 2005, and a Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Princeton University in 2010. His doctoral work focused on the application and development of techniques for the nonlinear embedding of biomolecular simulation trajectories to systematically identify the stable states, fundamental dynamical motions, and folding pathways. In 2010 he assumed a post-doctoral research position at MIT as a Ragon Fellow, where he applied statistical mechanical tools to develop data-driven models of HIV viral fitness landscapes for computational vaccine design. Andrew joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering in 2012.
Research Interest
Chemical science
Publications
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E.Y. Lee, G.C.L. Wong, and A.L. Ferguson "Machine learning discovery and design of membrane-active peptides" Bioorg. Med. Chem. (in press, 2017)
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E.Y. Lee, M.W. Lee, B.M. Fulan, A.L. Ferguson, and G.C.L. Wong "What can machine learning do for antimicrobial peptides, and what can antimicrobial peptides do for machine learning?" Interface Focus (in press, 2017)
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A.W. Long and A.L. Ferguson "Landmark diffusion maps (L-dMaps): Accelerated manifold learning out-of-sample extension" Appl. Comput. Harmon. Anal. (in press, 2017)
