about me

I am an Associate Professor at the Medical School of Nanjing University, China. We work on digital hearts as part of the Engineering Medicine Research Group. I took my undergraduate and master’s training in mechanical engineering and manufacturing, and obtained my Ph.D. in computational biological physics. My research develops and applies multiscale, multiphysics models of the heart to uncover disease mechanisms and improve therapeutics — aiming to bring to medicine the level of predictive impact computational modeling has long had in engineering.
Prior to joining Nanjing University in February 2025, I was an Assistant Project Scientist in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of California, Davis. I am a recipient of the Career Development Award and Postdoctoral Fellowship from the American Heart Association (AHA). I serve as a guest Associate Editor for Frontiers in Physiology, regularly review manuscripts for ~20 international journals on cardiovascular research and computational biology, and have served as a grant reviewer for the American Heart Association Fellowship programs.

Education and training

• 2025 - present, Associate Professor, Medical School, Nanjing University, China
• 2022 - 2025, Assistant Project Scientist, Department of Pharmacology, University of California, Davis, US
• 2017 - 2022, Postdoctoral Scholar/Fellow, University of California, Davis, US
• 2013 - 2017, Ph.D. in Biological Physics, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
• 2010 - 2012, M. Engineering in Mechanical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
• 2006 - 2010, B. Engineering in Mechanical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Professional service

Study section:

• Member, American Heart Association Fellowship Application Review Committee - Cardiac Electrophysiology and Arrhythmias (cycles of 2020, 2021, 2022)

I review manuscripts for the following journals on a regular basis:

• Guest Associate Editor: Frontiers in Physiology
• Review Editor: Frontiers in Physiology – Cardiac Electrophysiology
• Review Editor: Frontiers in Physiology – Computational Physiology and Medicine
• IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
• International Journal of Cardiology
• International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery
• Frontiers in Physiology
• F1000Research
• American Journal of Physiology – Heart and Circulatory Physiology
• Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing
• Computers in Biology and Medicine
• Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology
• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A
• Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
• PLoS One
• PLoS Computational Biology
• The Journal of Physiology
• Physiological Reports
• JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology
• Communications Biology
• Biophysical Journal
• Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy
• Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics
• Scientific Reports
• iScience