In the afternoon of November 12nd, 2015, a lecture entitled “Structure Identification for Gene Regulatory Network” was held successfully in the conference room of Building 3. The guest we invited was Professor Tong Zhou, who was from Tsinghua University. The lecture was chaired by Fei-Qi Deng, the Professor of School of Automation Science and Engineering.

First, Professor Deng gave us a brief introduction about the guest, Professor Zhou, who is the professor and doctoral tutor in the Research Institute of Automation Control Theory and Technology in Tsinghua University, and welcomed his arrival. Professor Zhou is now the Deputy Director in the academic committee of School of Information Science and Technology of Tsinghua, and associate editor of several international academic journals. Professor Zhou gave us a detailed introduction about structure identification for gene regulatory network. The report was started from the difficulties of identifying the direct reason-result relationship between biological cell and component, and Prof. Zhou discussed how to improve the decision of structure identification for gene regulatory network using the method of structure property such as power law and robust state estimation. Professor Zhou gave us detailed introduction about every method and tested them. The result showed that the decision of parametric estimation had been improved a lot and the false positive rate had also been reduced compared with other approaches. And computational complexity was almost the same or even lower.

This lecture has attracted a lot of audiences. We believed that students have not only broaden their academic vision but also produced strong interests in this research field.