Brief Bio

I was born in Shanghai, a fast-developing metropolis in China. Currently, I am a second-year PhD student at Mila - Quebec AI Institute, advised by Prof. Jian Tang, where I focus on AI-guided Drug Discovery and building Biological Foundation Models. I am also a startup member of BioGeometry, where we aim at facilitating Protein Design with Generative AI.

In Summer 2022, I am lucky to work closely with Yuandong Tian and Xinlei Chen from Meta AI on multi-relational data modeling. Previously, I received the Master and Bachelor degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, advised by Prof. Bingbing Ni, where I research on transfer learning algorithms for object recognition and detection. During the period of Master study, I have a close collaboration with Hongyu Guo from National Research Council Canada, Payel Das, Vijil Chenthamarakshan and Aurelie Lozano from IBM Research, Arian Jamasb from University of Cambridge and Zhenbang Sun from ByteDance Inc.

My current research focuses on:

• Facilitating protein design and optimization with generative AI
• Understanding the functional roles of biomolecules with geometric deep learning
• Building biological foundation models incorporating different biological entities (genes, proteins, cells and tissues)