Tang Chao (physicist)

In this Chinese name, the family name is Tang.

Tang Chao (Chinese: 汤超; born 1958) is a Chair Professor of Physics and Systems Biology at Peking University.

Tang Chao
Born	1958 (age 65–66) Nanchang, Jiangxi, China
Nationality	Chinese
Alma mater	University of Science and Technology of China University of Chicago (PhD)
Known for	Self-organized criticality Bak–Tang–Wiesenfeld sandpile
Scientific career
Fields	Physics, Biology
Institutions	Peking University
Doctoral advisor	Leo Kadanoff
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	湯超
Simplified Chinese	汤超
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Tāng Chāo

Education

He had his undergraduate training at the University of Science and Technology of China, then went to the United States through the CUSPEA program organized by Professor T. D. Lee. He received a Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Chicago.^{[citation needed]}

Career

In his early career, he worked on problems in statistical physics, dynamical system and complex systems. In 1987, along with Per Bak and Kurt Wiesenfeld, he proposed the concept and developed the theory for self-organized criticality, which had and continues to have broad applications in complex systems with scale invariance. The model they used to illustrate the idea is referred to as the Bak-Tang-Wiesenfeld "sandpile" model. His current research interest is at the interface between physics and biology. Specifically, he focuses on systems biology and works on problems such as protein folding, cell cycle regulation, function-topology relationship in biological network, cell fate determination and design principles in biological systems. He was a tenured Full Professor at the University of California San Francisco before returning to China in 2011. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the founding director of the interdisciplinary Center for Quantitative Biology at Peking University and the founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Quantitative Biology.

Selected publications

• Self-organized criticality^[1][2]
• Protein folding^[3]
• Robustness in cell cycle control^[4]
• Network topology, function and dynamics^[5]
• Cell fate determination^[6]

References

1. Bak, P., Tang, C. and Wiesenfeld, K. (1987). "Self-organized criticality: an explanation of 1/f noise". Physical Review Letters. 59 (4): 381–384. Bibcode:1987PhRvL..59..381B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.381. PMID 10035754. S2CID 7674321.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. Bak, P., Tang, C. and Wiesenfeld, K. (1988). "Self-organized criticality". Physical Review A. 38 (1): 364–374. Bibcode:1988PhRvA..38..364B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.38.364. PMID 9900174.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
3. Li, H., Helling, R., Tang, C. and Wingreen, N. (1996). "Emergence of Preferred Structures in a Simple Model of Protein Folding". Science. 273 (5275): 666–669. arXiv:cond-mat/9603016. Bibcode:1996Sci...273..666L. doi:10.1126/science.273.5275.666. PMID 8662562. S2CID 925759.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
4. Li, F., Long, T., Lu, Y., Ouyang, Q. and Tang, C. (2004). "The yeast cell-cycle network is robustly designed". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101 (14): 4781–4786. arXiv:q-bio/0310010. Bibcode:2004PNAS..101.4781L. doi:10.1073/pnas.0305937101. PMC 387325. PMID 15037758.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
5. Ma, W., Trusina, A., El-Samad, H. Lim, W. and Tang, C. (2009). "Defining Network Topologies that Can Achieve Biochemical Adaptation". Cell. 138 (4): 760–773. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2009.06.013. PMC 3068210. PMID 19703401.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
6. Shu, J.; et al. (2013). "Induction of Pluripotency in Mouse Somatic Cells with Lineage Specifiers". Cell. 153 (5): 963–975. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2013.05.001. PMC 4640445. PMID 23706735.

External links

• Professor Tang's lab
• Center for Quantitative Biology
• Journal of Quantitative Biology