About me

Hi there! I’m Zhengqing, an interdisciplinary researcher in my 4th year of PhD at You Lab, Duke University. I work on the predictive modeling of biological time-series, with microbiome as my current system of interest.

A physicist and biomedical engineer by training, I strive to bridge theory, computation, and experiment together, with the ultimate goal of translating quantitative insights into biomedical applications. I believe we can derive elegant principles to engineer biology the same way we build vehicles, planes, and rockets. Common tools that I use include: representation & supervised learning, systems biology & dynamical modeling, and sequencing-based high-throughput experiments.

News

[Dec. 2025] Finished my 4th-year progress report.
[Nov. 2025] Ghost effect paper on BioRXiv.
[June. 2025] Linear scaling paper on BioRXiv.

Behind the scene

I’m the dad of two kitties, Kuu and Luna. I love weight training, basketball, and photography.