Bio. I am an assistant professor in the School of Science and Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen). [CV]
I lead the AI for Life Sciences Laboratory, where we build AI foundation models to simulate living systems across species and biological scales.
I am actively recruiting young talents to join my lab and explore the frontiers of AI and biology. [join us]
Projects.
Virtual tissue: A cell interaction foundation model (CIFM) for predicting human tissue perturbation responses [Preprint’25] [HuggingFace] 
Graph self-supervised learning: A series of fundamental techniques (e.g. GraphCL) for building graph and geometric foundation models [NeurIPS’20] [ICML’21] [WSDM’22] (TotalCitations:4820) [GitHub] 