Dr Kangjie Zheng

Kangjie is a computer science researcher with a long-standing interest in machine learning and its applications to the life sciences. He completed his BEng degree in Computer Science at the Honors School of the Harbin Institute of Technology in 2020, where he developed a strong interest in machine learning and its ability to extract structure and insight from complex, high-dimensional data. After that, he continued his academic training at the School of Computer Science at Peking University from 2020 to 2025, pursuing a PhD under the supervision of Professor Ming Zhang. His doctoral research focused on designing pre-trained models for molecular representation learning and exploring their applications in areas such as small-molecule modeling and multi-scale protein structure understanding.

Building on this interdisciplinary foundation, Kangjie is now a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, working with Dr Mo Lotfollahi. In this role, Kangjie develops scalable AI foundation models for large-scale, multi-omics datasets. By integrating expertise in machine learning, molecular modeling, and computational biology, he seeks to bridge data-driven AI methodologies with fundamental questions in biology.