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I officially joined the School of Life Sciences at Tsinghua University as a PhD student in August 26th, 2026. Hello, THU!

Received the Guo Weize Scholarship for 2026 graduates at Southern Medical University. With this award, I completed a Grand Slam of university scholarships!

UKBAnalytica is now available on CRAN. CRAN

Received an honor certificate for outstanding academic performance during my undergraduate study.

Delivered a commencement speech as a graduating-student representative at Southern Medical University’s 2026 commencement ceremony and was named an Outstanding Graduate. Link

The UKBAnalytica manuscript was posted on medRxiv. Publication

Successfully completed my national-level Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program project, “Mining biomedical knowledge to study associations between metabolites and diseases,” supervised by Prof. Guangchuang Yu.

Passed my undergraduate thesis defense with a 5A rating for “TCMDATA: An Integrated R Package for Comprehensive Network Pharmacology Analysis and Visualization in Traditional Chinese Medicine.”

Published my first-author paper “Polygenic and polysocial risk scores in post-type 2 diabetes dementia: Risk stratification and predictive modeling in the UK Biobank cohort” in Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. Publication

Finished the 2025 Zhuhai Hengqin Marathon half-marathon in 1:48:25.

Named an Outstanding Student of Southern Medical University for the 2024-2025 academic year and received a First-Class Scholarship.

Invited as a National Scholarship representative to speak at the inaugural Xinghuo Southern Medical University Outstanding Student Growth Sharing Event and took a photo with President Li Ma. Link

Published “Revisiting successful aging through a machine learning approach to quantifying the influence of chronic diseases” in Scientific Reports. Publication

After three years of undergraduate study, I was admitted to the direct-entry PhD program in the School of Life Sciences at Tsinghua University.

Participated in Tsinghua University’s four-party joint pre-recommendation graduate admissions process and received an offer.

Completed a short internship in Prof. Yong Zhang’s lab at the School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University. Zhang Lab

Attended an Under Armour meet-and-greet with NBA player Stephen Curry in Chongqing.

Participated in summer programs as a graduate-recommendation candidate at the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Peking University School of Basic Medical Sciences; Zhejiang University School of Basic Medical Sciences; and Tongji University School of Life Sciences and Technology. Ranked second overall at Tongji with a final assessment score of 323/350.

Ranked 2/43 in the Bioinformatics program with a GPA of 4.02 for the second semester of 2024-2025.

Published “lncRNA-ZFAS1, an Emerging Gate-Keeper in DNA Damage-Dependent Transcriptional Regulation” in Advanced Science as a co-first author. Publication

Published “aplot: Simplifying the creation of complex graphs to visualize associations across diverse data types” in The Innovation as a co-first author. Publication

Named a Meritorious Winner in the 2025 Mathematical Contest in Modeling.

Passed the midterm review for my national-level Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program project on mining biomedical knowledge to study metabolite-disease associations.

Finished the postponed 2024 Zhuhai Hengqin Marathon half-marathon in 1:45:42.

Finished the 2025 Qingyuan Marathon half-marathon in 1:45:35.

Ranked 1/43 in the Bioinformatics program with a GPA of 4.57 for the first semester of 2024-2025, with an average score of 96 across all major courses.

Named an Outstanding Student of Southern Medical University for the 2023-2024 academic year and received a First-Class Scholarship.

Contributed as a core member to sclet, an R package for integrated single-cell analysis. GitHub

Received the 2023-2024 National Scholarship for undergraduate students.

Ranked 1/43 in the Bioinformatics program with a GPA of 4.38 for the second semester of 2023-2024, including a perfect score in Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics.

Founded the Mind-Body Medicine Research Association, a university-level student research society at Southern Medical University.

Joined Prof. Feiying He’s research group at the Innovation and Entrepreneurship College of Southern Medical University as an undergraduate researcher.

Led the national-level Undergraduate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program project, “Mining Biomedical Knowledge to Study Metabolite-Disease Associations.”

Joined Prof. Guangchuang Yu’s YuLab in the Department of Bioinformatics, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, as an undergraduate researcher. YuLab

Set a half-marathon personal best of 1:44:43 at the 2024 Qingyuan Marathon.

Ranked 1/43 in the Bioinformatics program with a GPA of 4.28 for the first semester of 2023-2024.

Named an Outstanding Student of Southern Medical University for the 2022-2023 academic year and received a First-Class Scholarship.

Placed eighth in the men’s 3000 m event at the 34th Southern Medical University Sports Meeting.

Won the Guangdong Provincial Third Prize in the 2023 Chinese Mathematics Competition for College Students.

Won the Guangdong Provincial Second Prize in the 2023 Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling.

Ranked 1/43 in comprehensive evaluation and 2/43 by weighted GPA for the full 2022-2023 academic year.

Ranked 1/43 in the Bioinformatics program with a GPA of 4.26 for the second semester of 2022-2023.

Represented Southern Medical University in the 10th Guangdong Union Cup Undergraduate English Writing Contest and won First Prize in the College English group. Link

Earned my first full-GPA course grade, 5.0 in College Physics I.

Hosted the Southern Medical University Social Practice Sharing Conference for the Social Practice Department of the University Youth League Committee. Link

Scored 36 points with 8 rebounds and 4 assists in a signature performance at the School of Basic Medical Sciences basketball tournament.

Ranked 5/43 in the Bioinformatics program with a GPA of 3.60 for the first semester of 2022-2023.

Won First Prize in the BETT Cup National College English Reading Competition.

Selected through a class election as an active applicant for CPC membership.

Completed military training with an Excellent rating and received my first university award: Third Prize in the campus preliminary round of the 2022 FLTRP ETIC Cup National English Writing Contest.

Admitted to Southern Medical University through the 2022 Guangdong College Entrance Examination and joined the Bioinformatics program in the School of Basic Medical Sciences.