<aside> I am Tianlai (Leo) Chen. Currently, I am doing my PhD at Harvard Medical School. I got my B.S. degree of Data Science from Duke University and Duke Kunshan University in 2023, and M.S. degree of Biomedical Engineering from Duke University in 2024. My research interests revolve around molecular engineering and AI for Biology.

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

Most recently, my work has focused on:

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

Educations

2025-now, PhD Student in Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology, Harvard University

2023-2024, MS in Biomedical Engineering, Duke University

2019-2023, BS in Data Science, Duke Kunshan University & Duke University

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

Organizer & Host

Duke AI Day with NVIDIA (2024), Machine Learning for Protein Engineering Seminar (2024-now)