George is a PhD student in the School of Life Sciences at Westlake University. He earned his bachelor's degree from Sun Yat-sen University. His research centers on the non-equilibrium principles of cellular phase separation—how energy dissipation governs the dynamics and functional limits of condensates, and how such understanding can guide rational design in synthetic biology. He likes to blo...

▎zhouzhi@westlake.edu.cn

▎Non-Equilibrium Phase Separation

▎Rational Design of Functional Condensates in Cells

▎free energy calculations

Zhu Tong is a current PhD student in the Quantitative Biology and Complex Systems program at Westlake University. Previously, he earned his Bachelor’s degree in Applied Physics from Huaqiao University. His research interests focus on applying mathematical theories and physical principles to understand complex systems, as well as AI optimization algorithms. In his spare time, he enjoys video ga...

▎aeroplanck@gmail.com

▎Complex Systems Theory

▎Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics

▎AI Fundamental Theories

Ziyi Lan is a doctoral student at the Center for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Westlake University. Before joining Westlake, she obtained her Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Zhejiang University and her Master’s degree in Applied and Engineering Physics from the Technical University of Munich. Her previous research involved molecular dynamics simulations, enhanced sampling, and free energy cal...

▎ziyilan08@gmail.com

▎Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Complex Biological Systems

▎Molecular Dynamics Simulations

▎Free Energy Calculations

Jiahe Wang is currently a Ph.D. student in Biology at the School of Life Sciences, Westlake University. She received her B.S. in Biological Sciences from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2025. Her current research interests focus on the physical modeling of biomolecular motors. Outside of research, she shares her life with her two beloved cats, Beanie and Ceylon

▎wangjiahe@westlake.edu.cn

▎Physical Modeling–Based Design and Engineering of Molecular Machines

Haoyuan YUE is a PhD student in Chao Tang's lab at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2025. His research interests are large language models for biological languages and computer modeling of life behaviors.

▎linyihao@westlake.edu.cn

▎Complex Systems, Cybernetics

Haoyuan YUE is a PhD student in Chao Tang's lab at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2025. His research interests are large language models for biological languages and computer modeling of life behaviors.

▎ yuehaoyuan@westlake.edu.cn

▎Deep Learning, Large Language Model