Zhenjiao Du

https://people.ucd.ie/zhenjiao.du

His research focuses on applying artificial intelligence to food engineering, with particular interests in large language models (LLMs) for bioactive compound discovery and predictive biomanufacturing. More broadly, he is interested in AI for Science (AI4Science) and actively seek collaborations that bridge AI with wet-lab research in food chemistry, nutritional science, food microbiology, and biochemistry to accelerate scientific discovery.

He received his PhD in Grain Science & Industry from Kansas State University under the supervision of Dr. Yonghui Li, where he studied bioactive peptide discovery from agricultural byproducts and rational fermentation design. He then completed postdoctoral training in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University with Dr. Lingchong You, focusing on strain-level host range prediction and the development of LLMs for microbial community representation.