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 led construction of one of the most comprehensively annotated single-cell atlases of a plant organ (Developmental Cell 2022, cover), now a community reference with over 400 citations, and developed COPILOT, a biology-informed quality-control algorithm for single-cell data.

In 2023 I joined Philip Benfey’s lab at Duke as a postdoc, where I mapped brassinosteroid gene regulatory networks at cellular resolution (Science 2023), led the single-cell analyses behind a polarity-guided mitotic division mechanism that tunes hormone signaling (Cell 2025), and built a rice root atlas that revealed how root tissues adapt to soil compaction (Nature 2025). 

I am now a Resnick Sustainability Institute Pioneer Postdoctoral Fellow in Trevor Nolan’s lab at Caltech, where I lead 3D profiling of cellular morphogenesis and spatial transcriptomic analysis of Arabidopsis roots: the PHYTOMap computational pipeline, the Virtual Root initiative, single-cell analyses of osmotic stress and in vivo Perturb-seq, and a 480-probe Xenium spatial panel. My research asks how individual cells coordinate their developmental programs to build a resilient organism, and how they adjust when the environment changes.