Lab Members

People

Meet the researchers driving AI for drug discovery and precision medicine at Zhejiang University.

Wanxiang Shen (申万祥)

Principal Investigator · Assistant Professor (2025.07–)
ZJU Hundred Talents Program (百人计划一类) · Ph.D. Advisor
College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University · Hangzhou, China

Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, National University of Singapore, 2022 (Prof. Yu-Zong Chen & Prof. Giorgia Pastorin). Postdoctoral researcher at NUS Chemistry (Prof. Jie Wu) and Harvard Medical School Biomedical Informatics (Prof. Marinka Zitnik). Selected for the National High-Level Overseas Young Talent Program, 2024. Research focuses on AI-driven drug design, cancer multi-omics AI, and precision immunotherapy. Published in Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nucleic Acids Research, Cell Press Patterns, and PNAS Nexus.

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Lab Members

Chenxiao Song (宋辰霄)

PhD Candidate (2025.07–)

Zhejiang University · 强基班
AI-driven reaction prediction & retrosynthesis planning
GitHub

Yong Li (李咏)

PhD Candidate (2025.07–)

East China University of Science and Technology
AI-driven lead optimization & molecular design
GitHub

Chao Cui (崔超)

Research Associate (2025.07–)

Shenzhen Bay Laboratory
Molecular GNN pooling (FPPool), activity cliff prediction, molecular representation learning
GitHub

Songlin Lu (卢松霖)

Visiting Student

Shenzhen Bay Laboratory
AI for metagenomics & microbiome-based disease prediction
GitHub

Suyang Chen (陈苏洋)

PhD Student (2024.09–) · Co-supervised

National University of Singapore, Chemistry
AI for chemical reaction optimization, synthesis condition prediction & automated wet-lab validation
GitHub

Jiayi Tang (唐嘉忆)

Undergraduate Student (Graduate Thesis, 2025.09–)

Zhejiang University, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Molecular representation learning for drug property prediction
GitHub

Ruifeng Li (李瑞凤)

Visiting PhD Student (–2026.06)

Zhejiang University, Dept. of Computer Science
Deep learning for molecular property prediction & RNA structure modeling
GitHub

Dr. Heqin Zhu (朱河勤博士)

Visiting Scientist

University of Science and Technology of China
AI for RNA structure prediction, modeling & therapeutic RNA design
Homepage

Dr. Chengqi Xu (徐珵启博士)

Visiting Scientist

Cornell University
Large language models for biomedical knowledge extraction & drug-drug interaction prediction
GitHub

Shihang Feng (冯世航)

Visiting Student

University of Hong Kong, Dept. of Computer Science
Graph neural networks & molecular machine learning (FPPool) GitHub

Nan Ke (柯楠)

Undergraduate Intern (Rotation)

Zhejiang University, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences (拔尖班)
Molecular AI & drug property prediction (rotation)
GitHub

Zhiguo Yu (余志国)

Visiting Undergraduate

Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, CS
AI for bioinformatics & traditional medicine informatics
GitHub

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Collaborators

Active collaborations with Prof. Marinka Zitnik (Harvard Medical School), Prof. Jie Wu (NUS Chemistry), Prof. Yu-Zong Chen (Shenzhen Bay Lab / Tsinghua), and groups at Roche pRED, ZairaChem, and NUS. We welcome new collaborations — reach out.