Kevin Yang

3.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
64 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Kevin Yang is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence and Surgery. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin Yang has authored 64 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Molecular Biology, 12 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 6 papers in Surgery. Recurrent topics in Kevin Yang's work include Protein Structure and Dynamics (10 papers), Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (9 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers). Kevin Yang is often cited by papers focused on Protein Structure and Dynamics (10 papers), Machine Learning in Bioinformatics (9 papers) and RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (8 papers). Kevin Yang collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Kevin Yang's co-authors include Frances H. Arnold, Claire N. Bedbrook, Zachary Wu, Viviana Gradinaru, Chang Hwan Kim, Jiyoung Kim, Austin J. Rice, Alex X. Lu, Peter S. Kim and Brian Hie and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Kevin Yang

55 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Learned protein embeddings for machine learning

2018 202 citations Kevin Yang, Zachary Wu et al. Bioinformatics profile →
Protein structure generation via folding diffusion

2024 76 citations Kevin Wu, Kevin Yang et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kevin Yang United States	23	1.0k	151	143	139	134	64	1.8k
Catherine Mooney Ireland	30	1.8k 1.8×	160 1.1×	105 0.7×	407 2.9×	115 0.9×	115	3.3k
Shuhui Liu China	24	976 1.0×	64 0.4×	43 0.3×	179 1.3×	134 1.0×	104	2.2k
Firas Khatib United States	11	643 0.6×	80 0.5×	48 0.3×	258 1.9×	98 0.7×	16	2.1k
Dániel Schwarz Germany	31	1.7k 1.7×	61 0.4×	146 1.0×	151 1.1×	376 2.8×	121	3.5k
Madhavi K. Ganapathiraju United States	19	641 0.6×	92 0.6×	41 0.3×	92 0.7×	118 0.9×	55	1.2k
Liya Ding China	16	942 0.9×	104 0.7×	72 0.5×	235 1.7×	84 0.6×	76	2.3k
Michael Hucka United States	25	2.6k 2.6×	259 1.7×	85 0.6×	150 1.1×	148 1.1×	57	3.2k
Zhe Feng China	21	690 0.7×	23 0.2×	134 0.9×	247 1.8×	94 0.7×	108	1.8k
Yu Shi United States	17	781 0.8×	178 1.2×	114 0.8×	209 1.5×	60 0.4×	49	1.5k
Anthony Gitter United States	22	1.0k 1.0×	187 1.2×	82 0.6×	106 0.8×	113 0.8×	66	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Kevin Yang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kevin Yang

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kevin Yang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Kevin Yang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Kevin Yang based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Kevin Yang. Kevin Yang is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Alamdari, Sarah, et al.. (2025). ProtNote: a multimodal method for protein–function annotation. Bioinformatics. 41(5). 1 indexed citations

Yang, Huijie, Wenbo Ma, Kevin Yang, Jiali Liao, & Yue Zhao. (2025). Antithrombotic Effect of Ginkgo Biloba Extract: A Study Based on Network Pharmacological Analysis and In vivo Experiments. Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice. 28(5). 624–632.

Yang, Kevin, Nicolò Fusi, & Alex X. Lu. (2024). Convolutions are competitive with transformers for protein sequence pretraining. Cell Systems. 15(3). 286–294.e2. 43 indexed citations

Johnson, Sean R., et al.. (2024). Computational scoring and experimental evaluation of enzymes generated by neural networks. Nature Biotechnology. 43(3). 396–405. 33 indexed citations

Wu, Kevin, Kevin Yang, Rianne van den Berg, et al.. (2024). Protein structure generation via folding diffusion. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1059–1059. 76 indexed citations breakdown →

Yang, Kevin, et al.. (2023). Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality in Plastic and Craniomaxillofacial Surgery: A Scoping Review. Bioengineering. 10(4). 480–480. 25 indexed citations

Yang, Kevin, et al.. (2023). PREADD: Prefix-Adaptive Decoding for Controlled Text Generation. 10018–10037.

Yang, Kevin, et al.. (2023). Inhibitory Investigations of Acyl-CoA Derivatives against Human Lipoxygenase Isozymes. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(13). 10941–10941. 4 indexed citations

Zhao, Chenyang, et al.. (2023). Evaluation of clinical efficacy of tumor necrosis factor‑α inhibitors in treatment of distal extremity swelling with pitting edema in psoriatic arthritis of inadequate response to conventional therapy: A 10‑year retrospective study. Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine. 25(6). 263–263. 1 indexed citations

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Lv, Gang, Qiong Shi, Ting Zhang, et al.. (2023). Integrating a phenotypic screening with a structural simplification strategy to identify 4-phenoxy-quinoline derivatives to potently disrupt the mitotic localization of Aurora kinase B. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 80. 117173–117173. 7 indexed citations

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Subramanian, Sanjay, Medhini Narasimhan, Kevin Yang, et al.. (2023). Modular Visual Question Answering via Code Generation. 14 indexed citations

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Yang, Kevin, et al.. (2022). Safety reports in dermatology: A 5-year analysis at an academic medical center. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. 88(4). 950–952.

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Yang, Kevin, Yuandong Tian, Nanyun Peng, & Dan Klein. (2022). Re3: Generating Longer Stories With Recursive Reprompting and Revision. 4393–4479. 45 indexed citations

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Wu, Zachary, et al.. (2020). Signal Peptides Generated by Attention-Based Neural Networks. ACS Synthetic Biology. 9(8). 2154–2161. 65 indexed citations

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Bedbrook, Claire N., Kevin Yang, J. Elliott Robinson, et al.. (2019). Machine learning-guided channelrhodopsin engineering enables minimally invasive optogenetics. Nature Methods. 16(11). 1176–1184. 136 indexed citations

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Yang, Kevin, Zachary Wu, & Frances H. Arnold. (2018). Machine learning in protein engineering. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Li, Yan, et al.. (2018). Probing the Roles of Physical Forces in Early Chick Embryonic Morphogenesis. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 1 indexed citations

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Bedbrook, Claire N., Kevin Yang, Austin J. Rice, Viviana Gradinaru, & Frances H. Arnold. (2017). Machine learning to design integral membrane channelrhodopsins for efficient eukaryotic expression and plasma membrane localization. PLoS Computational Biology. 13(10). e1005786–e1005786. 82 indexed citations

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Lorestani, Alexander, Lilach Sheiner, Kevin Yang, et al.. (2010). A Toxoplasma MORN1 Null Mutant Undergoes Repeated Divisions but Is Defective in Basal Assembly, Apicoplast Division and Cytokinesis. PLoS ONE. 5(8). e12302–e12302. 74 indexed citations

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Blachon, Stéphanie, et al.. (2009). A Proximal Centriole-Like Structure Is Present in Drosophila Spermatids and Can Serve as a Model to Study Centriole Duplication. Genetics. 182(1). 133–144. 114 indexed citations

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