My research interests cover biostatistics, bioinformatics and clinical data analysis, focusing on the investigation of disease mechanisms and in-depth mining of healthcare data, and is committed to applying statistical models and programming tools to solve real-world medical problems. Outside of school, I love exploring the world, traveling, hiking and swimming, as well as movies and photography.

▎wangyida@westlake.edu.cn

▎Biostatistics, Epidemiological Studies

Zelun is a visiting member of the Cell Ethology Lab at the Interdisciplinary Studies Centre, Westlake University. Before that, he double-majored in Advanced Science (Honours) and Computer Science at the University of New South Wales. His research interest lies in decoding the complex regulatory systems of living organisms — all in pursuit of the bold, slightly mischievous dream of rationally and holistically designing life (a.k.a. playing God). When he's not poking at the secrets of biology, Zelun is probably off the grid — hiking up a mountain, hopping on a plane, or getting tapped out in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu training.

▎lizelun@westlake.edu.cn

▎Biological Regulatory Mechanism

Jiahao Zhang is a senior undergraduate student in Electrical Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He enjoys exploring the intersection of AI and science, with research interests spanning protein language models, temporal inference of cellular micro-environments, and the modeling and inversion of physical flow fields. Passionate about applying machine learning to real-world scientific challenges, he hopes to teach machines how to “understand” the workings of biology and physics. Outside of research, Jiahao enjoys fitness and badminton—a curious mind with an active lifestyle.

▎jiahao.zhang.public@gmail.com

▎Protein Language Models

Haoyuan YUE is a visiting student in Chao Tang's lab. 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

Can Tang is a master's student at the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She graduated from the School of Physics and Electronic Engineering at Sichuan Normal University in 2023. During her master’s studies, she focused on the evolutionary research of SARS-CoV-2, employing molecular dynamics simulations to analyze the interactions between the viral receptor-binding domain (RBD) and the human ACE2 receptor. In July 2024, she joined Westlake University as a visiting student, further advancing her research in viral evolution and protein-protein interactions.

▎c.tang@siat.ac.cn

▎Molecular Dynamics Simulation, Neural Networks

Ding Wang is a Ph.D. candidate in physics at Hong Kong Baptist University, having successfully defended his dissertation and expected to graduate in March 2025. He will join the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (CIS) as a postdoctoral researcher upon graduation. He earned his B.Sc. in physics from the Southern University of Science and Technology in 2019. During his Ph.D., he worked on topics including spin glasses with annealed disorder and the wetting properties of multicomponent protein condensates. From December 2022 to June 2023, he was a visiting student at Theoretical Molecular Science Laboratory RIKEN, Japan, focusing on the simulation of multicomponent protein condensates. His current research interests include the dynamics of hidden order in annealed spin glass models, neural network dynamics, and topics in quantitative biology.

▎19481705@life.hkbu.edu.hk

▎Spin Glasses, Neural Networks

▎Liquid-liquid Phase Separation