Yiyan Liao

He/Him/His

Be a rational poet.

About Me

I am an undergraduate student majoring in Bioinformatics at the School of Life Sciences, Peking University, P.R.China, working with Prof. Luhua Lai and Prof. Jianfeng Pei in the Molecular Design Laboratory. I am also exploring large language models as a researcher in Prof. Tong Yang‘s research group. My research focuses on applying artificial intelligence algorithms to structural biology and molecular design, aiming to engineer next-generation therapeutic tools.

Education

• Peking University, School of Life Sciences
  B.E. in Bioinformatics (2023 – 2027 expected)

Research Interests

• Computer-aided molecular glue (MG) discovery
• Generative small molecule/enzyme design
• Structural geometry deep learning & modeling
• Reasoning & foundation biological large language models (LLMs)

You can find my publications here: Publications.

Academic Achievements

• 2024-2025 Peking University Merit Student
  Sep 2025
• 2024-2025 Peking University Qin Wanshun Jin Yunhui Scholarship
  Sep 2025
• 2025 Beijing Natural Science Foundation Undergraduate Research Program
  Development and Validation of Deep Learning-Based Virtual Screening Methods for Molecular Glues, Jul 2025
• 33th Peking University “Challenge Cup” Interdisciplinary Student Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition
  Excellence Award (Team Leader), May 2025
• International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) 2024
  Gold Medal – Team Peking (Wet Lab Leader), Oct 2024
• Peking University First Prize Scholarship for Freshmen
  MingDe Scholarship, Dec 2023
• 34th International Biology Olympiad (IBO)
  Gold Medal, Jul 2023
• 31st China National Biology Olympiad (CNBO)
  National Team Member, Aug 2022

Internships

• Moonshot AI
  Reinforcement Learning Intern, Feb 2025 – Jun 2025
  moonshot
• Tencent
  Biological Large Language Models (LLMs), Jun 2025 - Present
  tencent

Talk Slides

• UHPB JC 2025 Autumn: Toward De Novo Protein Design from Natural Language
  PowerPoint
• UHPB Annual Symposium 2025: The computational landscape of molecular glues: MGTbind database and ternary co-folding benchmark
  PowerPoint
• Current topics on Genetics 2025 Spring: Genome Editing Technologies
  PowerPoint

About Me

• MBTI: ISTP (Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, Perceiving)
• Hobbies: Hip-hop, rock music, movies