Yuanfang Xiang / 項遠方

(Also spelled as Yüan-fang Hsiang)

.edu mail: yf.xiang@smail.nju.edu.cn
Undergrad student @ School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University
163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing 210023, P.R. China
Interests
AI 4 Science, Neuro-Symbolic AI, Computational & Systems Biology
I aim to perhaps just I’m daydreaming to 🤣 develop computational methods that push further our understanding of the complex world, by building human-comprehensible AI systems solving scientific problems. I’m currently trying to realize this goal via Machine Learning + Knowledge Reasoning and AI for Life Sciences.
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Activities

Jan. 2026, 🎉🎉ACCEPTED BY ICLR ‘26 !
This is my first publication as the first author.
Best gratitude to all those supported me and my attempts. Particularly thank my Love, and all contributors to the project.
Dec. 2025 - , currently working at Yangtze AI Lab and Changzhou Synthetic Biology Institute, BGI Genomics for protein thermal-stability modelling facing biomanufacturing scenario.
Mar. 2025 - , currently collaborating with Prof. Julio Saez-Rodriguez’s group (the SaezLab, EMBL-EBI) on integrating mechanistic knowledge and data-driven learning for predictive tasks in systems biology.
Apr. 2024 - , currently working at CAS Academician, Prof. Zhi-Hua Zhou’s group (LAMDA Lab, Nanjing University) on applications of Abductive Learning, a neuro-symbolic method.
Aug. 2025, Collegiate Computational Design Competition of China
- 2nd. Prize
Oct. 2024, the iGEM (international Genetic Engineered Machine) Competition
- Gold Medal & Nominated Track Best
- As team leader (dry lab section)
- Our project: Shivacosmic-Greens on engineering electro-producing microbiome;
- My work: Developed a knowledge ontology-augmented ML model, which assisted plasmid engineering. iGEM wiki
Jul. 2024, the AI+ Innovation Challenge, Nanjing University
- 1st. Prize & Ranked top 1
- As team leader
- EGOAL: gene Expression prediction via Gene Ontology and Abductive Learning
- Project Docs (CN)