2025.10: “Engineering Unnatural Cells with a 21st Amino Acid as a Living Epigenetic Sensor” is on Nature Communications
2025.09: “Small Molecule Approach to RNA Targeting Binder Discovery (SMARTBind) Using Deep Learning Without Structural Input” is released on bioRxiv
2025.09: “Tabula: A Tabular Self-Supervised Foundation Model for Single-Cell Transcriptomics” is accepted by NeurIPS 2025
2025.09: “Biosynthesis of Unnatural Cyclodipeptides through Genetic Code Expansion and Cyclodipeptide Synthase Evolution” is on Journal of the American Chemical Society
2025.08: “Evaluating DNA function understanding in genomic language models using evolutionarily implausible sequences” (follow-up work from the GenBio workshop) is released on arXiv
2025.08: “SaprotHub: Democratizing Protein Language Model Training, Sharing and Collaboration for the Biology Community” is accepted by Nature Biotechnology
2025.07: “A tri-modal protein language model enables advanced protein searches” is accepted by Nature Biotechnology
2025.07: “Predicting function of evolutionarily implausible DNA sequences” is presented at Q-BIO 2025 Conference: Emergent Orders in Living Systems Across Scales, see our poster
2025.06: “Sequence Display-Enabled Machine Learning for Protein Evolution” is presented at 2025 Synthetic Biology: Engineering, Evolution, & Design, see our poster
2025.06: “Predicting function of evolutionarily implausible DNA sequences” is accepted by ICML 2025 Generative AI and Biology Workshop
2025.04: I will be joining the PhD program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at USC QCB, looking forward to the journey
2025.01: “Toward a privacy-preserving predictive foundation model of single-cell transcriptomics with federated learning and tabular modeling” is released on bioRxiv, see our post
2024.09: one paper on accurate nanoplastics classification has been accepted by ACS Nano (paper link), featured in the cover
2023.07: one paper on developing a multi-agent simulation model for pandemic spread is accepted by ALIFE 2023 (paper link)
2022.08: one paper on developing a protein recognition webserver is accepted by Bioinformatics (paper link)
Background
PhD student focusing on computational biology, with research interests at the intersection of AI and biology, designing computational approaches to accelerate discoveries in synthetic biology, drug discovery, and molecular interaction.