About

I'm currently a research associate at Harvard Medical School, grateful to work in the Zitnik Lab advised by Prof. Marinka Zitnik, and affiliated with HMS Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) and collaborate closely with colleagues in the HIDIV Lab, and work with Prof. Nils Gehlenborg. Previously, I did my master at Columbia University in Computer Science, where I was part of the Columbia NLP Group. Before that, I worked with Prof. Zhiyong Wang at The University of Sydney, and completed my B.S. (Honours) in Computer Science.

My current research centers on building autonomous AI systems for therapeutic discovery across pharmacology, proteomics, drug discovery. Not only accelerating the process, but also enable reliable and interpretable transition of the discovery insights into actionable therapies at scale.

If any of this sparks your interest, I would love to hear from you. Please don’t hesitate to reach out!

Research

ToolUniverse paper Figure
Shanghua Gao, Richard Zhu*, Pengwei Sui*, Zhenglun Kong*, Sufian Aldogom, Yepeng Huang,Ayush Noori, Reza Shamji, Krishna Parvataneni, Theodoros Tsiligkaridis, Marinka Zitnik
arXiv preprint | NatureNature News
YAC paper Figure
Devin Lange, Shanghua Gao, Pengwei Sui, Austen Money, Priya Misner, Marinka Zitnik, Nils Gehlenborg
arXiv preprint | In review for ACM CHI 2026
DQVis paper Figure
Devin Lange, Pengwei Sui, Shanghua Gao, Marinka Zitnik, Nils Gehlenborg
NeurIPS 2025: Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
Multi-LLM Integration Figure
Zhenglun Kong*, Zheng Zhan*, Shiyue Hou, Yifan Gong, Xin Meng, Pengwei Sui, Peiyan Dong, Xuan Shen, Zifeng Wang, Pu Zhao, Hao Tang, Stratis Ioannidis, Yanzhi Wang
arXiv preprint
KokoMind Figure
Weiyan Shi*, Liang Qiu*, Dehong Xu, Pengwei Sui, Pan Lu, Zhou Yu
LICA Algorithm Animation
Meng Zhou*, Ziyu Liu*, Pengwei Sui, Yixuan Li, Yuk Ying Chung
NeurIPS 2020 | RL Theory Workshop@ ICML'20

Experience

Harvard Medical School, Boston MA, United States

Research Associate, DBMI, 2024-Present
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Insilico Medicine, Shanghai, China

Consultant Intern, Business Development, Spring 2024
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Yale Engineering School, (remote from New York)

Graduate Student Researcher, Fall 2023
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Columbia Engineering School, New York, NY, Unitied States

Graduate Student Researcher, Columbia NLP Group, Summer 2023
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Teaching

Back in my undergrad days at USyd, I was a teaching assistant for the following classes: