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Shuxin Zheng

郑书新
Deputy Director, Zhongguancun Institute of AI·Associate Professor, Zhongguancun Academy·Former Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research

I build architectures that learn structure — from distributed systems to graph neural networks to molecular dynamics to large language models. The thread connecting my work is a fascination with how computation discovers patterns, whether in proteins or in language.

Highlights along the way: the Pre-LN Transformer architecture adopted by the GPT series, Graphormer for molecular property prediction (NeurIPS 2021, KDD Cup Champion), and BioEmu for biomolecular simulations (Science cover, 2025). 7,000+ citations.

Today I split my time between foundational LLM research and translating AI-for-Science breakthroughs into real-world impact at the Zhongguancun Institute of AI in Beijing.

2025 BioEmu published as Science cover article
2024 Joined Zhongguancun Academy as Associate Professor
2024 Appointed Deputy Director, Zhongguancun Institute of AI
BioEmuCover
Science 2025
Nature Machine Intelligence 2024
GraphormerChampion
NeurIPS 2021 · KDD Cup 2021
On Layer Normalization in the Transformer Architecture · Adopted by GPT series
ICML 2017