PhD Student of SSQBio at Harvard Medical School

Protein Language Model + Protein Design

Image From Dr. Kresten Lindorff-Larsen

Paper Collection

also known as Leo Zang Email: [email protected] https://x.com/LeoTZ03

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=03Nq06kAAAAJ&hl=en

About Me

<aside> I am Tianlai (Leo) Chen. Currently, I am doing my PhD at Harvard Medical School. My research interests revolve around molecular engineering and AI for Biology.

Most recently, my work has focused on:

• Protein Language Model
• Generative Protein Design (Enzyme/Peptide/Binder)
• Generative RNA Design </aside>

What is Zang? I was born and raised in the Wuyue District of China, where "Zang" is the local pronunciation of "Chen"

News

• [2026/07/06] Officially joined Marks Lab!
• [2025/09/10] Part of my undergrad thesis is now on Cell Host and Microbiome
• [2025/09/02] AMP-Diffusion is on Cell Biomaterial
• [2025/09/02] I started my PhD study at Harvard Medical School
• [2025/08/13] PepMLM is on Nature Biotechnology

Archived

Selected Publications

For full publications, please check Google Scholar.

Academic Services

Reviewer

NeurIPS2026, ICLR 2026, NeurIPS2025-AI4Science, ICLR 2024 GEM, ICML 2024 AI4Science, ICLR 2024 AccMLBio, ICLR 2025, ICML 2025 GenBio, SPIGM @ NeurIPS PLOS Computational Biology, Journal of Cheminformatics, Genome Biology, Scientific Reports

Organizer & Host

Machine Learning for Protein Engineering Seminar (2024-now)