Zhang Cheng, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, School of Computer Science, Peking University.
Zhang Cheng has published research papers as first or corresponding author in prestigious journals including Nature, Nature Communications, Science Advances, JACS, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.，IEEE TNB, Science China and Chinese Science Bulletin.
He has led multiple national and ministerial-level research projects, including: National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars (Category A), National Key Research and Development Program of China, National Key R&D Program “Intergovernmental” International Cooperation Project, Joint Funds of the Ministry of Education, research projects from National Natural Science Foundation of China and Beijing International Key Collaboration Project. He has received the First Prize and Second Prize of the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education, has been selected for the Chinese Academy of Sciences Innovative Interdisciplinary Team and honored as a Chinese Science and Technology Innovation Figure in Intelligent Computing, serves as a committee member of the Bioinformatics Committee for China Computer Federation, Chinese Association of Automation and Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence.
Publications：（* Corresponding author）
1. Cheng Zhang*，Ranfeng Wu, Fajia Sun, Yisheng Lin, Yuan Liang, Jiongjiong Teng, Na Liu, Qi Ouyang*, Long Qian*, Hao Yan*. Parallel molecular data storage by printing epigenetic bits on DNA. Nature, 634, 824-832, 2024.
2. Qian Ling，Bozhao Li, Yuhua Feng, Jing Yang*, Shian Wang*, Suping Li*, Cheng Zhang*, Conformation-programmed DNA computing, Science advances, 2026.
3. Yongpeng Zhang, Bozhao Li, Xuan Liu, Xuedong Zheng, Shi Liu, Guangjun Nie, Jing Yang*, Yonggang Ke*, Suping Li*, Cheng Zhang*. DNA Computing Function Switching by Programming Base Stacking Interactions with Minimal Molecular Architecture Changes. Nature Communications, 2025.
4. Liang Yuan, Qie Yunkai, Jing Yang, Wu Ranfeng, Cui Shuang, Zhao Yuliang, Greg J. Anderson, Guangjun Nie, Suping Li*, Cheng Zhang*. Programming conformational cooperativity to regulate allosteric protein-oligonucleotide signal transduction. Nature Communications, 2023.
5. Cheng Zhang*, Xueying Ma, Xuedong Zheng, Yonggang Ke, Kuiting Chen, Dongsheng Liu, Zuhong Lu, Jing Yang*, Hao Yan*, Programmable Allosteric DNA Regulations for Molecular Networks and Nanomachines. Science advances, 2022.
6. Jing Yang, Yuan Liang, Xiang Li, Yongpeng Zhang, Long Qian*, Yonggang Ke*, Cheng Zhang*, Spatially Programmable Enzymatic Nanorobot Arm to Modulate Anisotropic Gold Nanoparticle Assembly. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023.
7. Cheng Zhang*, Zhiyu Wang, Yan Liu, Jing Yang, Xinxin Zhang, Linqiang Pan, Yonggang Ke*, Hao Yan*. Nicking Assisted Reactant Recycle to Implement Entropy-Driven DNA Circuit. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019.
8. Ranfeng Wu, Yongpeng Zhang, Jiongjiong Teng, Qiang Zhang*, Cheng Zhang*. Molecular Circuit-Controlled Nanoparticle Folders for Programmable DNA Information Access. ACS nano, 2025.
9. Zhang Yongpeng, Chen Yiming, Liu Xuan, Ling Qian, Wu Ranfeng, Yang Jing*, Cheng Zhang*, Programmable Primer Switching for Regulating Enzymatic DNA Circuits. ACS nano, 2024.
10. Ranfeng Wu, Yiming Chen, Yongpeng Zhang, Rongming Liu, Qiang Zhang*, Cheng Zhang*, Catalytic Gold Nanoparticle Assembly Programmed by DNAzyme Circuits. Small, 2024.
