Team

Name：Xing-Ming Zhao

Detail： Professor of College of Biomedical Engineering, Fudan University; Deputy Director of Key Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience and Brain-inspired Intelligence, Ministry of Education; Vice Dean of the college of Biomedical Engineering, Fudan University; Director of Institute of Biomedical Engineering; Shanghai Youth Science and Technology Star; Candidate of Shanghai Pujiang Talent Program; IET Fellow; IEEE Senior Member; CCF Senior Member; Deputy Director of Professional Committee of Bioinformatics and Artificial Life, Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence; Standing member of Technical Committees of Bioinformatics, China Computer Federation; Director of Technical Committees of Bioinformatics, Shanghai Computer Society; ACM SIGBio China Vice Chair, etc. He has published more than 100 SCI papers in international renowned journals such as Cell Metabolism, Nature Communications, Genome Medicine, and Nucleic Acids Research. He has undertaken a number of scientific research projects including 863 program, National key research and development program, major research program and key projects of Natural Science Foundation of China.

Name：Yucheng Yang

Detail： Young associate researcher, College of Biomedical Engineering, Fudan University. He received his PhD degree from Tsinghua University in 2016 and then went to Yale University to do postdoctoral research. He has been working as a young associate researcher at Fudan University since 2020. His research interests include integrated analysis of computational genomics and biomedical big data. Current research interests are genome regulatory elements and gene expression regulation, as well as the association with complex human diseases, especially brain-related diseases.He has published several academic papers in well-known academic journals such as Cell Research, Nucleic Acids Research, BMC Genomics as the first or corresponding author.

Name：Zekuan Yu

Detail： Dr. Yu Zekuan has been selected for several prestigious programs and awards, including the Shanghai Super Postdoctoral Fellow, National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Excellent Postdoctoral Fellow, Shanghai Lancu Talent Program, Fudan University Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow, and Provincial Major Project Leading Talent. Multiple research projects he led have successfully achieved technology transfer. He has received awards such as the First Postdoctoral Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition Gold Award and the Shanghai Outstanding Invention Gold Award. Under his supervision, graduate students have received National Scholarships (2 awardees), Shanghai Outstanding Graduate honors, and awards including the Gold Award in the Shanghai Division and the National Bronze Award in the China International College Students' 'Internet+' Innovation Competition (2024).

Name：Xiaoyang Chen

Detail： Assistant Professor at the College of Biomedical Engineering, Fudan University, and holds both a bachelor’s and a Ph.D. from the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University. His research primarily focuses on biomedical AI algorithms, with key areas including cell-based foundation models, "virtual cells," and AI algorithms for epigenomics. He has published multiple papers as the first and corresponding (including co-) author in prestigious journals such as Nature Methods, Nature Machine Intelligence, Science Advances, Genome Biology, and Nucleic Acids Research. His academic achievements have been recognized with several honors, including the Tsinghua University Graduate "Academic Rising Star" (awarded to only 10 students university-wide each year), the Top 10 Frontier Young Scholars (recognizing 10 outstanding young talents in AI), Beijing Outstanding Graduate, and the National Scholarship. Additionally, his/her research was selected as one of the "Top 10 Advances in Chinese Bioinformatics" of 2025 (only 10 works selected annually) and has been recommended by Faculty Opinions (a distinction granted to less than 0.2% of papers in the biomedical field).