Author roles may overlap when one paper is both co-first and corr. author.

I am currently a Research Assistant Professor (RAP) at Hong Kong Institute of Innovation and Westlake University, working with Prof. Stan Z. Li (IEEE Fellow), Prof. Zhen Lei (IEEE Fellow), and Prof. Jiebo Luo (IEEE Fellow).

My core research focuses on Fundamental AI and Foundation Models. I am particularly interested in representation learning, deep manifold learning, geometric deep learning, multimodal foundation models, and trustworthy AI agents, aiming to build interpretable, scalable, and robust AI systems. My latest interest is AI Scientists and autonomous knowledge discovery — building agentic systems that can autonomously form hypotheses, design and run experiments, and discover new scientific knowledge.

I also work on interdisciplinary applications of AI, especially in AI for Science, life sciences, and medicine. My recent work explores how foundation models and agentic AI can support single-cell analysis, molecular modeling, biomedical reasoning, and clinical decision support.

Previously, I obtained my Ph.D. from Zhejiang University (jointly trained with Westlake University), supervised by Prof. Stan Z. Li (IEEE Fellow). I was also a CSC Visiting Scholar at the National University of Singapore (NUS), advised by Prof. Yang You.

* denotes equal contribution; † denotes corresponding author.

For a full list of publications, please refer to my Publications page.