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Jiakai Zhang

Jiakai Zhang

Assistant Researcher · Co-founder @ Cellverse

I'm an Assistant Researcher at the VRVC Lab, ShanghaiTech University, where I also received my Ph.D. under Prof. Jingyi Yu. My research focuses on AI for structural biology — making Cryo-EM reconstruction faster, more accurate, and accessible through foundation models.

Beyond the lab, I co-founded Cellverse (寰渺科技) to bring these tools to real-world drug discovery. I've also spent time at Meta Reality Labs working on neural rendering and AR/VR.

jiakai.py
# Ph.D. Candidate & Founder from shanghaitech import VRVC_Lab from cryoem import FoundationModels from ai import GenerativeModels from startup import Cellverse # Co-founder def main():   research("AI + Protein")   build("Future of Biotech")   return impact(scale="global")

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Research

CryoFastAR: Fast Cryo-EM Ab initio Reconstruction Made Easy

Jiakai Zhang, Shouchen Zhou, Haizhao Dai, Xinhang Liu, Peihao Wang, Zhiwen Fan, Yuan Pei, Jingyi Yu

ICCV 2025

A Large-scale Curated and Filterable Dataset for Cryo-EM Foundation Model Pre-training

Qihe Chen, Zicheng Xu, Haizhao Dai, Yingjun Shen, Jiakai Zhang, Zhijie Liu, Yuan Pei, Jingyi Yu

Scientific Data 2025

CryoGEM: Physics-Informed Generative Cryo-Electron Microscopy

Jiakai Zhang*, Qihe Chen*, Yan Zeng, Wenyuan Gao, Xuming He, Zhijie Liu, Jingyi Yu

NeurIPS 2024

DRACO: Denoising-Reconstruction Autoencoder for Cryo-EM

Yingjun Shen*, Haizhao Dai*, Qihe Chen, Yan Zeng, Jiakai Zhang, Yuan Pei, Jingyi Yu

NeurIPS 2024

CryoFormer: Continuous Heterogeneous Cryo-EM Reconstruction using Transformer-based Neural Representations

Xinhang Liu*, Yan Zeng*, Yifan Qin, Hao Li, Jiakai Zhang, Lan Xu, Jingyi Yu

ECCV 2024 Workshop Spotlight

Single-pixel p-graded-n Junction Spectrometers

Jingyi Wang, Beibei Pan, Zi Wang, Jiakai Zhang, Zhiqi Zhou, Lu Yao, Yanan Wu, Wuwei Ren, Jianyu Wang, Haiming Ji, Jingyi Yu, Baile Chen

Nature Communications 2024

Fourier PlenOctrees for Dynamic Radiance Field Rendering

Liao Wang*, Jiakai Zhang*, Xinhang Liu, Fuqiang Zhao, Yanshun Zhang, Yingliang Zhang, Minye Wu, Lan Xu, Jingyi Yu

CVPR 2022 Oral

HumanNeRF: Efficiently Generated Human Radiance Field from Sparse Inputs

Fuqiang Zhao, Wei Yang, Jiakai Zhang, Pei Lin, Yingliang Zhang, Jingyi Yu, Lan Xu

CVPR 2022

Human Performance Modeling and Rendering via Neural Animated Mesh

Fuqiang Zhao, Yuheng Jiang, Kaixin Yao, Jiakai Zhang, Liao Wang, Haizhao Dai, Yuhui Zhong, Yingliang Zhang, Minye Wu, Lan Xu, Jingyi Yu

ACM TOG (SIGGRAPH Asia) 2022

NeuVV: Neural Volumetric Videos with Immersive Rendering and Editing

Jiakai Zhang, Liao Wang, Xinhang Liu, Fuqiang Zhao, Minzhang Li, Haizhao Dai, Boyuan Zhang, Wei Yang, Lan Xu, Jingyi Yu

arXiv 2022

Editable Free-Viewpoint Video Using a Layered Neural Representation

Jiakai Zhang, Xinhang Liu, Xinyi Ye, Fuqiang Zhao, Yanshun Zhang, Minye Wu, Yingliang Zhang, Lan Xu, Jingyi Yu

SIGGRAPH 2021

LGNN: A Context-aware Line Segment Detector

Quan Meng, Jiakai Zhang, Qiang Hu, Xuming He, Jingyi Yu

ACM MM 2020

Startup

Cellverse 寰渺科技

AI · Protein · Drug Discovery

Cellverse is an AI biotech startup building protein-centric computational tools to accelerate structural biology and drug discovery. We develop foundation models trained on large-scale cryo-EM and structural data.

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Experience

2025 – Present

Assistant Researcher

VRVC Lab, ShanghaiTech University

AI for structural biology, Cryo-EM foundation models.

2022 – Present

Co-founder

Cellverse (寰渺科技)

Protein-centric AI for structural biology and drug discovery.

2022

Research Scientist Intern

Meta Reality Labs, Redmond, WA

Neural rendering and 3D reconstruction.

2016 – 2025

B.Eng. & Ph.D.

ShanghaiTech University

B.Eng. & Ph.D. in Computer Science and Technology (计算机科学与技术). Ph.D. supervised by Prof. Jingyi Yu.

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