Born and raised in Taichung, Taiwan, I earned my B.S. in Biochemistry and M.S. in Agronomy from National Taiwan University before completing my Ph.D. in Developmental Biology and Bioinformatics in Ohler lab at MDC-BIMSB (Berlin, Germany). There, I established a collaboration with Philip Benfey’s lab at Duke University (NC, USA) and co-developed a widely used single-cell root transcriptomic atlas.

In 2023, I joined Benfey lab as a postdoc, where I developed computational approaches for single-cell analysis of hormone responses, revealing gene regulatory programs that couple signaling with cell-cycle progression, and later extended these methods to crop roots under mechanical stress and plant–microbe interactions.

I am currently a postdoctoral fellow at Nolan lab at Caltech (CA, USA), where I develop agentic AI-powered methods that integrate single-cell and 3D spatial transcriptomic data to build a cellular morphological atlas of the root. My research aims to uncover how individual cells coordinate developmental programs to assemble a functional plant organism in space and time.