I am a fourth-year CS PhD student at School of Computational Science and Engineering (CSE), Georgia Institute of Technology, advised by Prof. Yunan Luo. I have broad interests in computational biology and machine learning, with a particular focus on developing AI methods to aid real-world biological and medical research. Much of my work has been about understanding and engineering proteins — from how mutations shape their stability and function, to more recently how proteins fold, move, and interact in cells. I dream of one day using machine learning to design molecular machines and programmable structures inspired by microtubules and the cellular environments that shape them.

Previously, I won a gold medal in Chemistry Olympiad during high school and obtained a B.E. in CS from Tsinghua University. I have spent time researching in Tsinghua, Stanford, Tencent and Biohub, and was honored to have worked with Prof. Jie Tang, Prof. Jure Leskovec, Prof. Maria Brbic, Prof. Chang-Yu Hsieh and Dr. Dari Kimanius.

My first name is pronounced like “Zion”.

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