Jian Peng
Researcher · Founder
Now Founder, Helixon (Earendil Labs)
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Affiliations
Current
- Founder · Helixon (Earendil Labs)
Also named in the companies' announcements: Tsinghua
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About
Jian Peng founded Helixon, now Earendil Labs, and is its CEO. When Helixon raised its Series A in 2022 he was an associate professor of computer science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a distinguished visiting scholar at Tsinghua University's Institute for AI Industry Research.
Read on 2026-09-29; for current roles see Affiliations above. Read at: prnewswire.com ↗ · siebelschool.illinois.edu ↗ · bydrug.pharmcube.com ↗
Selected work
- Template-based protein structure modeling using the RaptorX web server ↗
A protocol for modelling a protein's structure from templates with the RaptorX web server.
Also on this record: Jinbo Xu
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Founded
Helixon (Earendil Labs)Protein design · 2021 · 3 rounds on record · disclosed $787M · Round (unnamed) $787MBackground: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (computer science); incubated with Tsinghua AIR (as the company's own announcements put it)
Backed by5Y CapitalXianghe Capital
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