About

Hi! I am Chenao Li (李陈澳), a Ph.D. student at the AI Thrust, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), advised by Prof. Enyan Dai. Before that, I received my Master’s degree from the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, advised by Prof. Jizhong Lou. I obtained my Bachelor’s degree from North China Electric Power University. My research interests include AI for Science, Computational Biology, Protein Modeling, and Deep Learning.

Education

North China Electric Power University
B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering and Automation
2018.9 - 2022.6

Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
M.S. in Biology and Medicine
2022.9 - 2025.6

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence
2025.9 - 2029.6 (expected)

Intern

Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA)
Research Intern, 2025.3 - 2025.7
Research on protein foundation models and AI for Science.

Publications

UniZyme: A Unified Protein Cleavage Site Predictor Enhanced with Enzyme Active-Site Knowledge
Chenao Li, Shuo Yan, Enyan Dai
NeurIPS 2025
arXiv Code

FlexRibbon: Joint Sequence and Structure Pretraining for Protein Modeling
Jianwei Zhu, Yu Shi, ..., Chenao Li, ..., Tao Qin
ICLR 2026
bioRxiv

TCRAD: An End-to-End Framework for Antigen-Targeted T Cell Receptor Design
Chenao Li, Yaochi Guo, Xin Guan, Hui Chen, Yong Zhang, Pengyuan Yang, Jizhong Lou
bioRxiv
bioRxiv

Protap: General Protein Pretraining or Domain-Specific Designs? Benchmarking Protein Modeling on Realistic Applications
Shuo Yan, Yuliang Yan, Bin Ma, Chenao Li, Haochun Tang, Jiahua Lu, Minhua Lin, Yuyuan Feng, Enyan Dai
arXiv
arXiv Code