Doctor of Philosophy (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Bachelor of Science (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Dr. Ping Zhi earned both his B.Sc and Ph.D from Nanyang Technological University of Singapore. From 2017 to 2024, Dr. Ping worked as a Chief Scientist and Associate Researcher at BGI-Research, Shenzhen prior joining CUHK-Shenzhen. His research currently focuses on development of transcoding algorithms and integrated systems of DNA data storage, bioinformatics analysis of synthetic biology and other BT-IT converging directions. He has published a number of papers in prestigious journals including Nature Computational Science, Advanced Science, National Science Review, GigaScience, etc. He has been invited as reviewer for journals including Nature Communications, Bioinformatics, BMC Bioinformatics, Computational And Structural Biotechnology Journal, etc. He is also a member of the Committee of Computational Synthetic Biology of China. His research has been supported by National Key Research and Development Projects of China, National Natural Science Foundation of China and Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Macau Science and Technology Program (Category C).

1. Yiming Li, Haoling Zhang, Yuxin Chen, Yue Shen, Zhi Ping*, DNA Bloom Filter enables anti-contamination and file version control for DNA-based data storage, Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2024 (Accepted)
2. Yuting Chen, Haoling Zhang*, Wen Wang, Yue Shen, Zhi Ping*, PyMOL-PUB: an extension for publication-quality figure production from structure data, Bioinformatics, 2024 (Accepted)
3. Tiantian Chang, Weichao Ding, Shirui Yan, Yun Wang, Haoling Zhang, Yu Zhang, Zhi Ping, Huiming Zhang, Yijian Huang, Jiahui Zhang, Dan Wang, Wenwei Zhang, Xun Xu, Yue Shen*, Xian Fu*, A robust yeast biocontainment system with two-layered regulation switch dependent on unnatural amino acid, Nature Communications, 2023
4. Sun, F., Dong, Y., Ni, M., Ping, Z., Sun, Y., Ouyang, Q., Qian, L., Mobile and Self-Sustained Data Storage in an Extremophile Genomic DNA. Adv. Sci. 2023, 10, 2206201. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202206201
5. DNA storage Blue Book, Ping Zhi et. al., GeneClub, 2022
6. Ping, Z., Chen, S., Zhou, G., Huang, X., Zhu, S. J., Zhang, H., Lee, H. H., Lan, Z., Cui, J., Chen, T., Zhang, W., Yang, H., Xu, X., Church, G. M., & Shen, Y. (2022). Towards practical and robust DNA-based data archiving using the yin–yang codec system. Nature Computational Science, 2(4), 234-242. (Cover story)
7. Zhi Ping; Huanming Yang, Yue Shen; The new era of mass data storage in artificial chromosome; Science China Life Sciences, 2022.
8. Jitao Zhang; Shihong Chen; Haoling Zhang; Yue Shen*; Zhi Ping*; DNA Image Storage Using a Scheme Based on Fuzzy Matching on Natural Genome, Bioinformatics Research and Applications, Chapter 48, ISBRA 2021 (Conference paper)
9. Zhi PING, Haoling ZHANG, Shihong CHEN, Ming NI, Xun XU, Sha ZHU, Yue SHEN. Chamaeleo： an integrated evaluation platform for DNA storage. Synthetic Biology Journal, 2021, 2(3): 412-427
10. Zhang Y, Chiu TY, Zhang JT, Wang SJ, Wang SW, Liu LY, Ping Z, Wang Y, Chen A, Zhang WW, Chen T, Wang Y, Shen Y. Systematical Engineering of Synthetic Yeast for Enhanced Production of Lycopene. Bioengineering (Basel). 2021 Jan 19;8(1):14
11. Yiming Dong, Fajia Sun, Zhi Ping, Qi Ouyang, Long Qian, DNA storage: research landscape and future prospects, National Science Review, 2020, 7(6), 1092–1107 (Top 10 articles by full-text views)
12. Zhi Ping; Dongzhao Ma; Xiaoluo Huang; Shihong Chen; Longying Liu; Fei Guo; Sha Joe Zhu; Yue Shen; Carbon-based archiving: current progress and future prospects of DNA-based data storage, Gigascience, 2019, 8(6).
13. Zhi Ping; Feng Zhou; Xin Lin; Haibin Su; Coupled-Mutations Enabled Glycerol Transportation in an Aquaporin Z Mutant, ACS Omega, 2018, 3(4): 4113-4122.