Mingze Dong

I received my Ph.D. in Computational Biology from Yale University, where I was co-advised by Prof. Yuval Kluger and Prof. Rong Fan. Before Yale, I earned my B.S. from Peking University, focusing on applied mathematics and biology.

I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University before launching into independence. I am also building foundation models for biology at Arc.

I believe AI has enormous potential to transform biology, but the field has yet to achieve a true GPT moment. I think the gap is not just scale: it reflects limited biological data, the direct adoption of model architectures from other fields, and insufficient attention to what models actually learn — real biology versus batch effects, or generalization versus memorization.

My work approaches this question through large-scale AI, data science, and computational biology, with the goal of collecting the right data and building state-of-the-art models that help us understand, predict, and eventually design biological systems.

I am very happy to connect with people who share this vision and are excited about the opportunities ahead.