I did a CS PhD at Cambridge in 3 years with Joan Lasenby, and was valedictorian in Physics at Nanjing. I worked in finance, interned at tech giants & biotech startups.

I explore and build AI for Sciences & Therapeutics.

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Excited and grateful to host these talented interns at Regev Lab, Genentech in 2025: Sessen Daniel Iohannes (CSHL Biology), Chang Ma (HKU CS), Shentong Mo (CMU CS), Ziyu Lu (Rockefeller Biology), Jordan Rossen (Harvard Epidemiology), Shuvom Sadhuka (MIT CSAIL). We'll be working on many exciting and wonderful things :)

[25.02] I give a guest lecture at Stanford Bio 114 on the intersection of LLM Agents and biological discovery, featuring some of our recent works.

[25.02] I help advise a few UROP students from UC Berkeley at He Lab, UCSF.

[24.11] I'm in Manhattan all November, working w/ Prescient Design & Flatiron Health. Meanwhile, I visited Yale and Princeton, gave talks on `AI Agent x Spatial Biology`.

[24.09] I host Serena (w/ Kexin) to work on agents at Jure’s Group, Stanford AI Lab.

[24.08] I've been selected for Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Faculty Applicant Bootcamp, and UCSF Gladstone Institute's Trainee-to-Tenure Track Program.

[24.07] I've received support from OpenAI via its researcher program. I'll use this prize / donation to explore the potential of LLMs in scientific discovery.

[24.05] At Regev Lab, Genentech this summer, I host Yichun (with Paula) & Chenyu (with Masa). We're working on LLM agents & discrete diffusion models.

[24.04] Our work uses Drifting Cell Islands to reveal potential limitations of scIB, the gold standard for data integration and foundation models in cell biology. Check it out!

[23.08] I joined Jure & Aviv on a 3-year fellowship. I ONLY applied this ONE position after a 3-year PhD with Joan at Cambridge, with 1st-author Nature & NeurIPS papers.