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Ph.D. candidate developing protein language models and AI systems for computational biology at Westlake University. Research spans structure-aware pretraining (SaProt, ICLR 2024), trimodal protein search (ProTrek, Nature Biotechnology 2025), democratized PLM platforms (SaprotHub, Nature Biotechnology 2025), PLM-assisted base editing (Molecular Cell 2024), and frontier generative models (Evolla and Pinal, both under review at Nature).

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Education

  • 2022 – 2027 (expected)

    Ph.D. in Computer Science, Westlake University

    Joint program with Zhejiang University · Hangzhou

  • 2018 – 2022

    B.S. in Data Science and Big Data Technology, Tongji University

  • 2015 – 2018

    High School, Tianjin Nankai School

Experience

  • Present

    Ph.D. Candidate, Westlake University

    Protein language models, multimodal protein AI, and AI for Science

  • 2022 – present

    Captain, Westlake Rowing Team

  • 2023

    Investment Intern, ZhenFund (真格基金)

Skills

  • Research Protein language models, multimodal learning, protein engineering, de novo design
  • Tools PyTorch, Python, large-scale model training, Colab platforms

Honors & Awards

Community Impact

  • Open Source Contributor to Hugging Face Transformers Evolla officially integrated into the Transformers library (EvollaProcessor, EvollaForProteinText2Text).
    Commit
  • Evolla Evolla reached 130K+ views on X Promotional post for Evolla on X (Twitter).
    Post
  • Evolla Evolla — ~100K Hugging Face downloads per month Evolla-10B-hf model page on Hugging Face.
    Model
  • Pinal Pinal featured in Nature News Nature News article on AI protein design, citing Pinal (May 2025).
    Nature News
  • SaProt SaProt ranked #1 on ProteinGym Top overall on the ProteinGym DMS zero-shot substitution benchmark (Spearman) in the Oct 2024 leaderboard snapshot after SaProt's release.
    Leaderboard (Oct 2024)
  • SaProt SaProt — 60K+ Hugging Face downloads per month SaProt_650M_AF2 on Hugging Face.
    Model
  • Press Featured in Westlake University press Campus news coverage of protein search research (ProTrek / trimodal PLM).
    News article Photo

Languages

  • Mandarin Native speaker, 普通话水平测试 一级乙等
  • English Proficient speaker
  • Japanese Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) N2
  • Spanish Learning
  • Latin Learning

Water Sports

Previous president of Water Sports Club in Westlake University

  • Rowing 4 years experience, captain of rowing team in Westlake University
  • Stand up paddle 3 years experience
  • Other Sailing, dragon boat, SUP polo, etc.