Dr. Haicang Zhang is a professor in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the Institute of Computing Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Previously, he served as an AI algorithm engineer at ByteDance, a postdoctoral scientist at Columbia University in the United States, and an Associate Professor at the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

His research focuses on AI-driven protein design and drug design. He has developed the AI protein design platform “CarbonMatrix”. As the first or corresponding author, his major works have appeared in journals such as Nature Machine Intelligence (2024, 2022) and Nature Communications (2021), as well as at top AI conferences including NeurIPS (2023), ICML (two papers in 2024), and ICLR (2025). In 2022, he was selected for the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

He serves as a reviewer for leading AI conferences and journals, including NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, AAAI, AISTATS, and TMLR, and has served as an Area Chair for ICLR and ICML. He was recognized as a Gold Reviewer at ICML 2026.