Cailong Hua

200 Union St SE

Minneapolis, MN 55455

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Salaphaka Lab at the University of Minnesota. I received my Master’s degree in Control System with Distinction from Imperial College London. I obtained Bachelor’s degrees in Automation Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in Italy and from Electronic Information and Engineering from Tongji University in China.

My main research interests lie in control systems, non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, and machine learning. My current research focuses on the non-equilibrium toolbox and uses non-equilibrium statistical mechanics to improve machine learning techniques. My current project studies the mechanical properties of muscle proteins, dystrophin and utrophin, whose absence would lead to a lethal muscle wasting disease called Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).

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selected publications

JBC

Phosphorylation alters the mechanical stiffness of a model fragment of the dystrophin homologue utrophin

Ramirez, Maria Paz, Rajaganapathy, Sivaraman, Hagerty, Anthony R, Hua, Cailong, Baxter, Gloria C, Vavra, Joseph, Gordon, Wendy R, Muretta, Joseph M, Salapaka, Murti V, and Ervasti, James M

Journal of Biological Chemistry 2022

Bib HTML

@article{ramirez2022phosphorylation,
  title = {Phosphorylation alters the mechanical stiffness of a model fragment of the dystrophin homologue utrophin},
  author = {Ramirez, Maria Paz and Rajaganapathy, Sivaraman and Hagerty, Anthony R and Hua, Cailong and Baxter, Gloria C and Vavra, Joseph and Gordon, Wendy R and Muretta, Joseph M and Salapaka, Murti V and Ervasti, James M},
  journal = {Journal of Biological Chemistry},
  pages = {102847},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
}

APS

Confidence bounds for the Jarzynski estimator

Rajaganapathy, Sivaraman, Hua, Cailong, and Salapaka, Murti

Bulletin of the American Physical Society 2022

Bib HTML

@article{rajaganapathy2022confidence,
  title = {Confidence bounds for the Jarzynski estimator},
  author = {Rajaganapathy, Sivaraman and Hua, Cailong and Salapaka, Murti},
  journal = {Bulletin of the American Physical Society},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {APS},
}