About Me
I'm a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering also from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, advised by Prof. Yu Li. I obtained my Bachelor's degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2021. Before that, I graduated from Hefei No.1 High School in 2014.
Previously, I was a Visiting Predoctoral Fellow at EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), working with Dr. Robert Finn, and a Visiting Researcher at University of Bath, working with Dr. Jiawei Wang.
News
[Jan. 2026] Invited Talk at VIB.AI and KU Leuven.
[Jul. 2025] Poster Presentation at ISMB/ECCB 2025.
[Jun. 2025] I passed my Ph.D. Oral Defence!
[Feb. 2025] Invited Talk by CSSA Cambridge, University of Cambridge.
[Nov. 2024] Poster Presentation of SeRTS at EMNLP 2024.
[Sep. 2024] SeRTS accepted by EMNLP 2024.
[Sep. 2024] Oral Presentation at the BioASQ workshop of CLEF 2024.
[Jun. 2024] Started visiting at EMBL-EBI and University of Cambridge.
[Jun. 2024] One paper accepted by BioASQ workshop of CLEF 2024.
[Apr. 2024] Won the Silver Poster Award at Advancing Health with AI by Nature Conferences.
[Feb. 2024] ProNet DB was accepted by Database.
Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering
Chinese University of Hong Kong Aug. 2021 - Jun. 2025
Visiting Ph.D. student at Wolfson College
University of Cambridge Jun. 2024 - Feb. 2025
B.E. in Automation Science and Technology
Xi'an Jiaotong University Aug. 2017 - Jul. 2021
Experience
Visiting Researcher
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Sep 2025 - Dec 2025
Visiting Researcher
University of Bath, Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom Apr 2025 - May 2025
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow
EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom June 2024 - Feb 2025
Research Assistant
Brown University , Providence, Rhode Island, United States Mar 2020 - Mar 2021
Research Assistant
Xi'an Jiaotong University , Xi'an, Shaanxi, China Sep 2019 - Jun 2020
Research Assistant
National University of Singapore , Singapore Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Selected Publications
* Equal contribution, # Corresponding author
Massive Expansion of Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes from the Microbial Universe
Presented at ISMB/ECCB 2025, Jul. 20-24, 2025, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Uncovering evolutionary remote and highly potent antimicrobial peptides with protein language models
Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2026
Search-R2: Enhancing Search-Integrated Reasoning via Actor-Refiner Collaboration
Preprint / Under Review
Paper
Benchmarking Large Language Models on Multiple Tasks in Bioinformatics NLP with Prompting
Preprint / Under Review
Paper
SeRTS: Self-Rewarding Tree Search for Biomedical Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Findings of The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2024
Paper
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Enhancing Biomedical Question Answering with Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning and Hierarchical Retrieval Augmented Generation
BioASQ Workshop of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF), 2024
Paper
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ProNet DB: A proteome-wise database for protein surface property representations and RNA-binding profiles
Database: The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation, 2024
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Web Server
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Interpretable RNA Foundation Model from Unannotated Data for Highly Accurate RNA Structure and Function Predictions
ICML Workshop on Computational Biology, 2022
Covered by Synced (机器之心, in Chinese)
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Web Server
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Self-supervised contrastive learning for integrative single cell RNA-seq data analysis
Briefings in Bioinformatics, Volume 23, Issue 5, Sep 2022
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Protein-RNA interaction prediction with deep learning: Structure matters
Briefings in Bioinformatics, Volume 23, Issue 1, Jan 2022
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Model Adaption Object Detection System for Robot
39th Chinese Control Conference (CCC), 2020
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Teaching
- TA - AIST4010: Foundation of applied deep learning (Spring 2024)
- TA - AIST4010: Foundation of applied deep learning (Spring 2023)
- TA - AIST1000: Introduction to artificial intelligence and machine learning (Fall 2022)
- TA - AIST4010: Foundation of applied deep learning (Spring 2022)
- TA - BMEG3105: Data analytics for personalized genomics and precision medicine (Fall 2021)
Honors and Awards
- 2021: Full Postgraduate Studentship, CUHK
- 2021: Excellent Graduate, Xi'an Jiaotong University
- 2018-2020: Excellent Student, Xi'an Jiaotong University
- 2019: First Prize, National College Robot Competition (ROBOCON)
- 2019: Meritorious Winner, MCM/ICM Contest in Modeling