Dr. Ping Gong is a Senior Research Biologist and Principal Investigator with Environmental Laboratory of U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center in Vicksburg, Mississippi. He earned a Ph.D. in Environmental Toxicology from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1995, followed by postdoctoral research at the Technology University of Berlin (TU Berlin), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), and Biotechnology Research Institute of National Research Council of Canada. He specializes in bioengineering, synthetic biology, environmental genomics, bioinformatics, and mechanistic and predictive toxicology. He developed 8 bioinformatics and computational biology tools and published over 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters with 3097 citations and an h-index of 33 as of 5 December 2023 (Scopus). He served on the Board of Directors for the MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society (MCBIOS) as well as Editorial Boards of Frontiers in Genetics, Frontiers in Plant Sciences, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Experimental Biology and Medicine, and Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. He held adjunct faculty positions at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, East Carolina University, University of Southern Mississippi, and University of Mississippi. His current research interests focus on the development of novel biotechnologies for invasive species detection and mitigation and deep learning-guided protein engineering.
