Dr. Wanxiang Shen

Wanxiang Shen  (申万祥)

Ph.D. in Bioinformatics and Drug Design, 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 Medicine, Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Communications, Nucleic Acids Research, Cell Press Patterns, and PNAS Nexus.

Graduate Students & Staff

Chunting Yu
Chunting Yu (于春婷)
Research and Administrative AssistantNortheast Agricultural University

She graduated from Northeast Agricultural University, coordinates lab administration and reimbursements, and studies DMTA cycles in drug discovery.

Suyang Chen
Suyang Chen (陈苏洋)
PhD Student · Co-supervisedNUS Chemistry

A third-year NUS PhD student, he develops AI for reaction optimization, synthesis-condition prediction and automated wet-lab validation.

Chao Cui
Chao Cui (崔超)
PhD StudentTsinghua University

He holds CS (Northeastern) and BME (Tsinghua) degrees. Now a first-year PhD student, he studies GNNs, activity cliffs and representations, with NC/ICLR papers.

Chenxiao Song
Chenxiao Song (宋辰霄)
PhD StudentStrong Foundation Program

A first-year PhD student and ZJU undergraduate alumnus, he studies AI-assisted reaction modeling, small-molecule generation and retrosynthesis.

Yong Li
Yong Li (李咏)
PhD StudentECUST

A first-year PhD student at ZJU with an ECUST background, he studies flow matching, generative models and AI agents.

Xiyu Cheng
Xiyu Cheng (程熙妤)
PhD StudentBA Denian Class (4+4)

A first-year PhD student, she is jointly trained in Burns at ZJU’s Second Affiliated Hospital and studies clinical intelligence and aging.

Xinmiao Yang
Xinmiao Yang (杨欣苗)
Master’s StudentSun Yat-sen University

A ZJU master’s student and Sun Yat-sen University graduate, she studies AI-guided CAR target discovery and omics for clinical diagnosis.

Jinxuan Long
Jinxuan Long (龙锦轩)
Incoming PhD StudentMixed / Chemistry Base Classes

With strong chemistry training at ZJU’s Chu Kochen Honors College, he works on AI-driven reaction optimization and retrosynthesis.

Ziyan Zhu
Ziyan Zhu (朱子琰)
Incoming Master’s StudentChallenge Cup National Special Prize

From China Pharmaceutical University, he interned in Yun Xia’s lab. He has a JCIM paper and a software copyright, and studies molecular representations.

Undergraduates & Interns

Nan Ke
Nan Ke (柯楠)
Undergraduate Intern (Rotation)Top Talent Program

Nan is a pharmacy undergraduate at ZJU and a rotation intern interested in molecular AI and drug property prediction.

Ruizhi Zou
Ruizhi Zou (邹睿稚)
Undergraduate StudentZJU–Edinburgh Institute

Ruizhi studies Bioinformatics at the ZJU–Edinburgh Institute and is interested in cancer immunotherapy and computational biology.

Bin Ma
Bin Ma (马斌)
Undergraduate InternUSTC Computer Science

Bin is a USTC Computer Science undergraduate working on AI-based immunotherapy response prediction, omics and computational biology.

Jingzhe Nie
Jingzhe Nie (聂敬哲)
Undergraduate Intern (2026.04–)ManiMol Development

An AI undergraduate at Shandong Agricultural University and lab intern since April 2026, he develops ManiMol for molecular conformation generation.

Chengyuan Lu
Chengyuan Lu (陆铖远)
Undergraduate StudentFirst-year Undergraduate

Chengyuan is a first-year undergraduate at ZJU’s College of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

Visiting Scholars & Students

Heqin Zhu
Dr. Heqin Zhu (朱河勤博士)
Visiting ScientistUSTC

A visiting scientist from USTC, Heqin develops AI for RNA structure prediction, modeling and therapeutic RNA design.

Chengqi Xu
Dr. Chengqi Xu (徐珵启博士)
Visiting ScientistCornell University

A visiting scientist from Cornell, Chengqi studies LLMs for biomedical knowledge extraction and drug–drug interaction prediction.

Jiayi Tang
Jiayi Tang (唐嘉忆)
Undergraduate Thesis (2025.10–)NUS AI for Science

Jiayi studies AI for Science at NUS, with interests in molecular representations, scientific AI agents and Music AI.

Songlin Lu
Songlin Lu (卢松霖)
Visiting StudentShenzhen Bay Laboratory

A visiting student from Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, Songlin studies metagenomic AI and microbiome-based disease prediction.

Shihang Feng
Shihang Feng (冯世航)
Visiting StudentHKU Computer Science

A visiting student from HKU Computer Science, Shihang studies molecular graph learning, including FPPool.

Ruifeng Li
Ruifeng Li (李瑞凤)
Visiting PhD StudentZJU Computer Science

A visiting PhD student from ZJU Computer Science, Ruifeng studies molecular property prediction and RNA structure modeling.

Ailin Yang
Ailin Yang (杨艾霖)
Visiting StudentPolyU Biopharmaceuticals

A PolyU master’s student in Biopharmaceutical Development and Commercialization, Ailin contributes to the AgentPV project.

Alumni

Jiayi Tang
Jiayi Tang (唐嘉忆)
Undergraduate Thesis (2025.10–)NUS AI for Science

Jiayi studied pharmacy at ZJU and plans to pursue an MSc in Artificial Intelligence for Science at NUS.

Zhiguo Yu
Zhiguo Yu (余志国)
Undergraduate Intern (2026.02–2026.07)Fudan Direct-entry PhD

A Hunan University of Chinese Medicine undergraduate, Zhiguo interned from February to July 2026 and will pursue a direct-entry PhD at Fudan.

Collaborators
  • Harvard Medical School
  • National University of Singapore
  • Tsinghua University
  • Shenzhen Bay Laboratory
  • Roche