PEOPLE
Shuangjia Zheng (郑双佳) is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Global Institute of Future Technology (GIFT), Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interests are broadly at the intersection of applied machine learning for problems in biology, chemistry, and medicine, with a particular interest in the discovery and design of novel therapeutic biomolecules. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science at Sun Yat-sen University and served as a visiting scientist at MIT and Harvard. During his Ph.D., he was also a founding member of a hundred-million-dollar AI drug discovery startup. His work has been recognized by numerous awards, including the Asian Young Scientist Fellowship, Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship by CAST, Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia, WAIC Rising Star Award, RayWu Fellowship, and Baidu Scholarship.
Research Scientists & Research Associates
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Willam Hua
Research Intern
Willam is a research master student at McGill & Mila working on geometric deep learning and generative models for molecule and protein structures.
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Odin Zhang
Research Intern
Odin Zhang completed his dual B.S. in Pharmacy and Physics at Zhejiang University and has previous experience in the field of molecular generation. He is currently a CS PhD at the Baker Lab at the UW, with a focus on general molecular design.
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Jixian Zhang
Visiting Research Scientist
Jixian received his M.S. in Physics at USTC in 2018. He is a Kaggle Grand Master and particularly interested in applying machine learning to drug discovery research.
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Lu Wei
Visiting Research Scientist
Wei completed his PhD in Biophysics with Prof. Peter G. Wolynes at Rice in 2022. He is particularly interested in applying physics-inspired neural networks to drug discovery research.
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Runze Ma
Research Assistant
Runze received his B.S. in phamarcy (华西药学院) and M.S. in computer science from Sicuan University. He is currently working in RNA modeling and RNA-targeting ligand design.
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Yong Liu
Research Associate
Yong Liu completed his bachelor's degree in Computer Science from BIT in 2021 and worked as a machine learning engineer in Galixir. He is interested in AI4S and currently working in Enzyme Recruitment.
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Jiahao Wang
Research Associate
Jiahao obtained his master's degree in computer science from Sun Yat-sen University. Prior to that, he completed his bachelor's degree in computer science from Chongqing University. He is particularly interested in applying artificial intelligence to scientific research.
Graduate Students
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Zhongyue Zhang
PhD student
Zhongyue received his B.S. and M.S. in computer science from Sun Yat-sen University. He worked at Tencent for a year as a data science engineer. Now he joins AI4T of Shanghai Jiaotong University as a PhD student. He is interested in deep learning and generative models for RNA and Protein.
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Yushu Liu
PhD student
Yushu obtained his B.S. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and is set to begin his Ph.D. studies at the School of Medicine at the same university in September 2024 (co-supervised with Prof. Jian Zhang). His current research focuses on utilizing generative neural networks for peptide generation.
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He Yang
PhD student
Yang received his B.S. in Sun Yat-sen University and M.S. in computational biology from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, UCAS. He is currently working in physical neural networks for unsupervised virtual screening and will become a PhD student at SJTU in Sep 2024 (co-supervised with Prof. Jian Zhang).
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Yaokun Ji
Master student
Yaokun completed his Bachelor's degree at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2023 and joined the AI4T lab as a graduate student. His current research interests encompass machine learning, generative AI, data-driven models, and applications of concrete algorithms in protein design.
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Zhuoming Zhou
Master Student
Zhuomin completed her undergraduate studies in ECE at JI-SJTU in 2023 and soon after joined AI4S as a master's student. Her interests lie in protein function prediction and KG.
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Zichen Wang
Master student
Zichen completed his bachelor's degree in Software Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2024. He joined AI4T group in October 2023. He is interested in Diffusion Model and Protein Design.
Undergraduate Researchers
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Jiayi Li
Undergraduate student
Jiayi is an undergraduate student at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, majoring in Statistics and Biomedical Sciences. Her research interests include RNA-targeted drug discovery, epigenetics, and single-cell analysis.
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Yanjie Huang
Undergraduate student
Yanjie is an undergraduate student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interests are centered around the innovative application of generative large language models for the design of circular RNAs. He was selected for the GIFT Future Scholars Program.
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Zhongmin Li
Undergraduate student
Zhongmin is an undergraduate student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interests include generative large language models for the generation and design of CRISPR proteins. He was selected for the GIFT Future Scholars Program.