Ziqi Gao 「高子琪」

I am an incoming tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Shenzhen International Graduate School of Tsinghua University, where I will lead the Intelligent Science Group (ISG), starting from 2026 Spring. My research interests lie in AI for Protein and Science foundation models.

I earned my Ph.D. from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, advised by Prof. Jia Li. During my Ph.D., I worked as research intern at Tencent AI Lab and IDEA, collaborating with Peilin Zhao, Zijing Liu and Yu Li. Before that, I received M.S. and B.S. degrees from Tsinghua University and Huazhong University of Science and Technology, respectively.

I am looking for self-motivated RA/Master/PhD/Postdoc. If you have top grades or coding skill, and are highly creative and interested in joining my group, please do not hesitate to send me your CV by Email.

Email: zgaoat (at) connect (dot) ust (dot) hk

Research

My research interests are centered around the broad field of AI for Science. Specifically, I focus on fundamental protein-related problems, such as protein-protein interactions and protein structure prediction, as well as application-oriented research, including protein representation learning and pre-training based on large language models. The goal is to develop versatile all-in-one protein foundational model.

Publications (* corresponding author)

Mini-Game Lifetime Value Prediction in WeChat
Aochuan Chen^, Yifan Niu^, Ziqi Gao^, Yujie Sun, Shoujun Liu, Gong Chen, Yang Liu, Jia Li*
KDD ADS Track, 2025

• First Prize in High Performance Cloud Computing Competition 2019, 2020
• National Scholarship, awarded by Ministry of Education 2020
• Excellent Graduation Thesis in Tsinghua 2021
• Geneva Invention Gold Medal 2023
• Best Research Award in AIS, HKUST 2023

• PC member/Reviewer: TPAMI, Nat. Commun., ICML'22-25, NeurIPS'23-24, ICLR'23-25, AAAI'26.