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  • 2010 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his original contributions to statistical nonequilibrium thermodynamics, particularly in connections to singlemolecule fluctuations and the roles of energy and noise in living systems

Overview

Hong Qian is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a significant contribution to Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. This includes advanced work in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, integrating both theoretical and applied approaches.

Their scholarly output spans a variety of interdisciplinary subfields, including Molecular Biology, Modeling and Simulation, Biomedical Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence. Within these domains, their main topics of study feature advanced thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, statistical mechanics and entropy, mathematical biology related to tumor growth, gene regulatory network analysis, quantum mechanics and applications, thermodynamics and calorimetric analyses, as well as vaccine coverage and hesitancy.

Hong Qian's recent publications illustrate the breadth of their research interests and collaborations. Selected recent papers include:

  • Black-Box Tuning for Language-Model-as-a-Service (2022, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • Unified formalism for entropy production and fluctuation relations (2020, Physical Review E)
  • A model for the intrinsic limit of cancer therapy: Duality of treatment-induced cell death and treatment-induced stemness (2022, PLoS Computational Biology)
  • Mathematical Representation of Clausius' and Kelvin's Statements of the Second Law and Irreversibility (2020, Journal of Statistical Physics)
  • Understanding COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence in People Living with HIV: A pan-Canadian Survey (2023, AIDS and Behavior)

Hong Qian has frequently collaborated with a number of researchers, with the most common coauthors including Hao Ge, Ying-Jen Yang, Yue Wang, Joseph Zhou, and Sui Huang.

The venues where Hong Qian frequently publishes reflect their interdisciplinary approach, with multiple works in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review E
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Statistical Physics
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

In addition to journal articles, Hong Qian has authored a book titled Stochastic Chemical Reaction Systems in Biology published by Springer International Publishing in 2021.

Hong Qian's contributions have been formally recognized by the American Physical Society through the award of Fellow in 2010. This award cited original contributions to statistical nonequilibrium thermodynamics, emphasizing connections to single-molecule fluctuations and the role of energy and noise in living systems.

Best Publications

  • Single particle tracking. Analysis of diffusion and flow in two-dimensional systems.

    H. Qian;Michael Sheetz;E. L. Elson

  • Parameters of Helix-Coil Transition Theory for Alanine-Based Peptides of Varying Chain Lengths in Water *

    J. M. Scholtz;Hong Qian;E. J. York;J. M. Stewart

  • Energy balance for analysis of complex metabolic networks.

    Daniel A. Beard;Shou Dan Liang;Hong Qian

  • Phosphorylation energy hypothesis : Open chemical systems and 'their biological functions

    Hong Qian

  • Helix-coil theories: a comparative study for finite length polypeptides

    Hong Qian;John A. Schellman

  • Analysis of confocal laser-microscope optics for 3-D fluorescence correlation spectroscopy.

    Hong Qian;Elliot L. Elson

  • Open-system nonequilibrium steady state: statistical thermodynamics, fluctuations, and chemical oscillations.

    Hong Qian

  • Physical origins of entropy production, free energy dissipation, and their mathematical representations.

    Hao Ge;Hong Qian;Hong Qian

  • Stochastic dynamics and non-equilibrium thermodynamics of a bistable chemical system: the Schlögl model revisited

    Melissa Vellela;Hong Qian

  • Thermodynamics of stoichiometric biochemical networks in living systems far from equilibrium.

    Hong Qian;Daniel A. Beard

  • Chemical Biophysics: Quantitative Analysis of Cellular Systems

    Daniel A. Beard;Hong Qian

  • Thermodynamic constraints for biochemical networks.

    Daniel A. Beard;Eric Babson;Edward Curtis;Hong Qian;Hong Qian

  • Distribution of molecular aggregation by analysis of fluctuation moments.

    Hong Qian;Elliot L. Elson

  • Stochastic theory of nonequilibrium steady states and its applications. Part I

    Xue-Juan Zhang;Hong Qian;Min Qian

  • Single-molecule enzymology: stochastic Michaelis-Menten kinetics.

    Hong Qian;Elliot L. Elson

  • Relative entropy: free energy associated with equilibrium fluctuations and nonequilibrium deviations.

    Hong Qian

  • Stochastic theory of nonequilibrium steady states. Part II: Applications in chemical biophysics

    Hao Ge;Min Qian;Hong Qian

  • Relationship between Thermodynamic Driving Force and One-Way Fluxes in Reversible Processes

    Daniel A. Beard;Hong Qian

  • Stoichiometric network theory for nonequilibrium biochemical systems.

    Hong Qian;Daniel A. Beard;Shou Dan Liang

  • Concentration fluctuations in a mesoscopic oscillating chemical reaction system.

    Hong Qian;Saveez Saffarian;Elliot L. Elson

Frequent Co-Authors

Elliot L. Elson
Elliot L. Elson Washington University in St. Louis
Michael Q. Zhang
Michael Q. Zhang The University of Texas at Dallas
Signe Kjelstrup
Signe Kjelstrup Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Herbert M. Sauro
Herbert M. Sauro University of Washington
Robert L. Baldwin
Robert L. Baldwin Stanford University
Karol Bomsztyk
Karol Bomsztyk University of Washington
Sui Huang
Sui Huang University of Calgary
Michael P. Sheetz
Michael P. Sheetz The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Guang Lin
Guang Lin Purdue University West Lafayette
Dick Bedeaux
Dick Bedeaux Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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