Tong Wang, PhD
Principal Investigator and Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University
Principal Investigator, Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences
Principal Investigator, Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure
Principal Investigator, State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology
Principal Investigator, Center for Life Sciences and Artificial Intelligence, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University
Office Address: Room A216-A, Biomedical Hall, Tsinghua University, Haidian District, Beijing, China
Lab Address: Room A208, Biomedical Hall, Tsinghua University, Haidian District, Beijing, China
Phone: 010-62794752
Brief Bio
Dr. Wang Tong is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Tsinghua University-Peking University Center for Life Sciences (CLS), Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structures, State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, and Center for Life Sciences and Artificial Intelligence. Prior to joining Tsinghua in 2025, he was a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research. He received his Ph.D. at Tsinghua University in 2019 and worked as a visiting scholar at Harvard University from 2016 to 2017.
His main research directions include AI-driven biomolecular dynamics simulation system (Nature, 2024), molecular structure modeling and prediction (Nat Commun, 2024), AI aided drug discovery (Brief Bioinform, 2023) and biomechanism detection via simulations (Cell Res, 2022 a,b). Over the past five years, as first or corresponding author, he has published more than 30 papers in journals such as Nature, Nat Mach Intell, and top computer science conference, such as NeurlPS and ICLR. He also holds more than ten patents in China and the United States. He has been working as Committee Member of Chinese Bioinformatics Society in protein structure prediction and simulation since it launched.
Dr. Wang has received Capital Frontier Academic Achievement Award (2025), Top Ten Advances in Chinese Bioinformatics Award (2024), Champion in First Global AI Drug Development Competition (2023), Top Downloaded Article Award (2022) and honored reviewer in ACS journals (2022, 2023).
Education and Background
Assistant Professor
School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University
Tsinghua University-Peking University Center for Life Sciences
Beijing Frontier Research Center for Biological Structure
Senior Researcher
Microsoft Research
Ph.D.
Tsinghua University
Visiting PhD Student
Harvard University
B.S. in Science
Shandong University
Honors, Rewards and Grants
Capital Frontier Academic Achievement Award
National Key R&D Program of China
AI+Life Science Interdisciplinary Research Program, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua
Start-up of scientific research for new PI by Tsinghua University
Top Ten Advances in Chinese Bioinformatics (1st rank of teamwork)
Champion in the First Global AI Drug Development Competition
Certificate of Recognition and Appreciation of ACS Publication Peer Reviewers
Runner-up of OGB Large Scale Challenge @NeurIPS2022 competition
Top Downloaded Article Award by Wiley Press (1st rank of teamwork)
Certificate of Recognition and Appreciation of ACS Publication Peer Reviewers
National Scholarship for Doctoral Students
First Prize of RONG Scholarship by Tsinghua University
Tang Lixin Scholarship by Tsinghua University
Innovation Scholarship by Beijing Advanced Innovation Center of Structural Biology
Distinguished Study Abroad Scholarship by Tsinghua University
Distinguished Graduation Award of Shandong Province
Distinguished Graduation Award by Shandong University
First-class Scholarship by Shandong University
Presentations, Lectures and Courses
Invited Presentations at Conferences
Ceremony and Symposium on Capital Frontier Academic Achievements
2025.12.6Beijing, China
How AI revolutionizes protein dynamics research. (Keynote Speech)
AI + Materials Symposium by Beijing Computational Science Research Center
2025.11.23-25Chengdu, China
AI driven biomolecular dynamics simulation. (Keynote Speech)
National Conference of the Chinese Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
2025.10.23-25Nanchang, China
The coming age of AI driven biomolecular dynamics simulation.
2025 Hong Kong International Biotechnology Convention (BIOHK2025)
2025.9.10-13Hong Kong, China
The coming age of AI driven biomolecular dynamics simulation.
National Conference of American Chemical Society (ACS Fall 2025)
2025.8.17-21Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Coming age of AI driven biomolecular dynamics simulation.
Machine learning force field for AI-driven protein molecular dynamics simulation
National Conference of Biomolecular Structure Prediction and Simulation
2025.6.13-15Changchun, China
The new era of AI driven biomolecular dynamics simulation. (Keynote Speech)
Artificial Intelligence for BioPharma Conference (AIBC 2025)
2025.6.12-13Shanghai, China
The new era of AI driven biomolecular dynamics simulation.
National Conference on Artificial Intelligence Biology
2025.6.5-7Shanghai, China
The coming age of AI driven biomolecular dynamics simulation with ab initio accuracy.
National Conference of American Chemical Society (ACS Fall 2024)
2024.8.18-22Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Transforming protein dynamics simulation with ab initio accuracy at the cost of empirical force filed.
The 15th National Conference of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
2024.8.6-9Changchun, China
ViSNet: A general molecular geometry modeling framework for molecular properties prediction and MD simulations
The 37th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023)
2023.12.10-16New Orleans, LA, U.S.A.
Geometric transformer with interatomic positional encoding.
The Twelfth National Conference on Bioinformatics and System Biology
2023.10.27-30Qingdao, China
AI2BMD: transforming protein dynamics simulation with ab initio accuracy at the cost of empirical force filed.
The Eleventh National Conference on Bioinformatics and System Biology
2023.2.25-27Guangzhou, China
AI-powered MD simulation and drug discovery: from algorithm design to applications in combating COVID-19.
The 36th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022)
2022.12.5-9Virtual Meeting
How to better introduce geometric information for molecular representation modeling
Invited Lectures at Institutions
School of AI for Science, Peking University
2025.12.19Beyond AlphaFold: How AI transforms protein dynamics research.
School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University
2025.6.11Understanding the power of AI in biomolecular dynamics simulation and drug discovery.
College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University
2024.12.17Recent advances in AI driven biomolecular dynamics simulation.
Protein Structure In-silicon Forum, Chinese Bioinformatics Society
2024.12.4The coming age of AI driven biomolecular dynamics simulation with ab initio accuracy.
Beijing Advanced Research Center for Biological Structures, Tsinghua University
2024.12.4The coming age of AI driven biomolecular dynamics simulation with ab initio accuracy.
Center for Quantitative Biology, Peking University
2024.12.3The coming age of AI driven biomolecular dynamics simulation with ab initio accuracy.
Institute of Systems and Physical Biology, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory
2024.11.27The coming age of AI driven biomolecular dynamics simulation with ab initio accuracy.
School of Science, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
2024.11.25Advancing the frontiers of protein dynamics research through AI.
Kuang Yaming Honors School, Nanjing University
2024.11.22Recent advances in machine learning force fields and biomolecular simulations by AI.
School of Mathematics, Renmin University
2024.11.16Ab initio characterization protein dynamics with AI2BMD.
Institute of Systems and Physical Biology, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory
2024.7.19AI2BMD: Transforming biomolecular dynamics simulation with ab initio accuracy driven by ViSNet.
Westlake University
2024.5.14How AI driven MD facilitates biological research.
Protein Structure In-silicon Forum, Chinese Bioinformatics Society
2023.11.28AI2BMD: Transforming biomolecular dynamics simulation with ab initio accuracy at the cost of empirical force field.
Beijing Advanced Research Center for Biological Structures, Tsinghua University
2022.4.26Algorithm design and application for MD simulation and drug discovery.
Protein Structure In-silicon Forum, Chinese Bioinformatics Society
2021.11.1Algorithm design and applications for protein structure computational research.
School of Mathematics, Renmin University
2019.5.28DeepFragLib: improved fragment sampling for ab initio protein structure prediction
Courses
AI-driven Biomacromolecule Simulation and Computing
Co-taught with other faculty members