WanTien (Austin) Chiang

Assistant Professor

WanTien (Austin) Chiang

Assistant Professor

Academic Appointment(s)

Medical College of Georgia
Department of Medicine

Medical College of Georgia
Department of Immunology Center of Georgia

Bio

Dr. Chiang is a Systems Immunologist who studies immunology, bioinformatics, biotechnology, computer science, and systems biology. As a key personnel on several university- and government-funded grants, he laid the groundwork for the proposed research by developing effective algorithms and tools of biological modeling to model and simulate different biological systems. He successfully collaborated with many world-class researchers. He has published many papers in reputable journals and filed several patents.

Education

  • Ph.D., Biomedical Sciences, General National Yang Ming Chiao Tung, 2014

  • MS, Computer and Information Scien National Yang Ming Chiao Tung, 2005

  • BS, Computer and Information Scien National Yang Ming Chiao Tung, 1999

Courses Taught Most Recent Academic Year

  • BCMB 9210

    Investigation of Problem

Teaching Interests

Systems Immunology
Bioinformatics
Computational Biology
Single-cell Omics

Research Interests

The overarching goal of Dr. Chiang's research is to employ Bioinformatics, Multi-omics data analysis, Predictive Modeling, and Systems Biology techniques to study immunology and human disease, therapeutic protein manufacturing, and multicellular systems engineering. His work has practical applications in Biomedical Science Research (e.g., Human disease research such as Cardiovascular disease(CVD), Cancer, Eosinophilic Esophagitis (EoE) disease, Staphylococcus aureus (SA) infection, and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)) as well as biopharmaceutical industry (e.g., Biomanufacturing and bioprocessing technologies and Multicellular systems engineering).