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 firms & biotech startups.

I build AI for Sciences & Therapeutics.

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[25 Summer] We're releasing FIVE AI Agents for Biomedical Discovery: Specialists for Spatial; Perturbation x 2; and Aging, and one Generalist across multiple subfields!

[25 Summer - Winter] I'm hosting these talented interns at Regev Lab, Genentech: Sessen D. Iohannes (CSHL Biology), Chang Ma (HKU CS), Namkyeong Lee (KAIST CS), Ziyu Lu (Rockefeller Biology), Jordan Rossen (Harvard Epidemiology), Shuvom Sadhuka (MIT CSAIL), Zihan Xu (Rockefeller Biology), Harrison Zhang (Stanford Medicine).

[25.05] Invited talks at Stanford x 2, UPenn, Danaher Corporation, UCLA, Roche, 10x Genomics, Nature Publishing Group, Tsinghua.

[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.