Born and raised in Taichung, Taiwan, I earned my B.S. and M.S. from National Taiwan University. For my Ph.D. in Uwe Ohler’s lab (MDC-BIMSB, Berlin, Germany), I established a transatlantic collaboration with Philip Benfey’s group (Duke) and co-built a comprehensively annotated single-cell root transcriptomic atlas now widely used in root biology. As a postdoc in the Benfey lab, I advanced single-cell analysis and modeling for hormone treatment time courses, identifying key gene modules and linking signaling to cell-cycle progression. I also extended my work to crops, studying rice roots under mechanical stress. I then joined Sheng-Yang He’s lab (Duke) to apply single-cell approaches to plant–microbe–environment interactions. I am now in Trevor Nolan’s lab (Caltech), building a 3D spatial single-cell root atlas that fuses spatial and single-cell data to map morphological and transcriptomic dynamics across root development.