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.

After much other fun, I believe & build AI for Science.

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[25 Winter] We'll push out biology centered manuscripts on cancer treatments, gene edits, and live cells. And, of course, more generic methods on Science Agents :)

[25 Summer] We're releasing FIVE AI Agents for Biomedical Discovery: specialists for spatial, perturbation, target identification, and aging, plus one general-purpose agent.

[25.08] Lightning talk at Agentic AI Summit, UC Berkeley.

[25.05] Invited talks at AAAI, Stanford, Penn, Danaher, UCLA, Roche, 10x Genomics, Nature Publishing Group, Tsinghua, Yale, NIH / NCI, Harvard, Syndey, Broad Institute.

[25.05] Co-host 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).

[25.02] Guest lecture at Stanford Bio 114, on LLM Agents and Biological Discovery.

[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.