Zhixiang Ren is currently an associate research scientist and the head of the “AI for Science Lab” at PengCheng Laboratory. He serves concurrently as a Ph.D. Supervisor at Southern University of Science and Technology and a Joint Ph.D. Supervisor with Tsinghua University. He holds a Ph.D. from University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, USA) and has conducted research at both the University of New Mexico and Sun Yat-sen University. His research focuses on AI for Science，drug discovery, bioinformatics, and deep learning. He has published over 60 papers in journals including Nature Machine Intelligence, Briefings in Bioinformatics and IEEE Transactions, accumulating over 9,000 citations (H-index 30), and holds 9 national invention patents (granted) as well as 5 software copyrights. He has received the 2024 AI Innovation Award and 2023 Guangdong Province Science and Technology Progress Award Special Prize. He has also led the development of 1 international standard (ITU-T F.748.18) and 2 industry standards (T/AI 118.1—2022, T/AI 118.2—2022) in intelligent computing. He serves as an associated editor of “Big Data Mining and Analytics,” “CAAI Artificial Intelligence Research,” and “Frontiers in Big Data,” and regularly reviews for journals such as Nature Communications and IEEE Transactions.