Structural and Functional Bioinformatics Research Group Front Page Professor Xin Gao leads the so-called SFB research group, which stands for Structural and Functional Bioinformatics Research Group We are a group, led by Prof. Xin Gao, in Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences & Engineering (CEMSE) Division at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) that focuses on bioinformatics, computational biology, machine learning, and big data. We are interested in building computational models, designing efficient and effective algorithms, and developing machine learning techniques to solve key open problems along the path from protein