Education and Training
2019 – 2023 Postdoc, Stanford University
2014 – 2019 PhD, Chemical Biology, Harvard University
2019 Methods in Computational Neuroscience, Marine Biological Laboratory
2009 – 2013 BS, Undergraduate Honors Program of Biology, Peking University
Research and Experience
2024 –
Samuel A. Goldblith Career Development Professor of Applied Biology, Assistant Professor, The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
2019 – 2023
Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow, Karl Deisseroth Laboratory, Departments of Bioengineering, and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
2019
Visiting Researcher, David Baker Laboratory, Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington
2014 – 2019
Graduate Student, Adam E. Cohen Laboratory, Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Physics, Harvard University
Thesis committee: Bernardo L. Sabatini, Rachel Wilson, Gary Yellen, Naoshige Uchida
2012 – 2014
Undergraduate Visiting Researcher (UGVR), Michael Z. Lin Laboratory, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University
Awards and Honors
2026 – 2028 NARSAD Young Investigator Award (BBRF)
2025 – 2028 Searle Scholar Award
2025 Samuel A. Goldblith Career Development Professorship of Applied Biology, MIT
2024 – 2027 Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Award in Neuroscience
2023 – 2028 Career Award at the Scientific Interface, Burroughs Wellcome Fund
2023 – 2028 K99/R00: Pathway to Independence Award, NIMH (early termination)
2021 – 2024 Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship, Helen Hay Whitney Foundation
2023, 2021 Star Mentor Award, Bio-X Undergraduate Summer Research Program, Stanford University
2020 Larry Katz Memorial Lecture Award, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
2020 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad
2019, 2018 Harvard Brain Initiative Young Scientist Travel Award, Harvard University
2019 Milton L. Shifman Endowed Scholarship, Marine Biological Laboratory
2019 Sculpted Light in the Brain Travel Award, Sculpted Light in the Brain Association
2018 Harvard Christensen Travel Prize, Harvard University
2016 Distinction in Teaching Award, Harvard University
2014 – 2016 Harvard–China Fellowship, Harvard University
2013 Provincial Outstanding Graduates, Beijing, China
2013 Outstanding Graduates of Peking University, Beijing, China
2013 First Prize of Undergraduate Honors Program of Biology Scholarship, Peking University
2012 First Prize of Summer Research Scholarship, Peking University
2012 May Fourth Scholarship, Peking University
2012 Second Prize of Undergraduate Honors Program of Biology Scholarship, Peking University
2012 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Stanford University, Stanford
2011 Dupont Scholarship, Peking University
2011 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2010 National Scholarship, Chinese Ministry of Education
2010 Merit Student, Peking University
2008 Provincial Merit Student, Henan Province