Yinqing Li, Ph.D.

李寅青, 博士

Associate Professor in the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences
at Tsinghua University

Biomedical Hall, B405
Tsinghua University
Beijing, 100084, PRC

yinqingl at csail dot mit dot edu

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Biography

Yinqing Li moved to Tsinghua in 2018, where he is now an associate professor in the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and an principal investigator at the IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Tsinghua. He received his B.S. in microelectronics from Fudan University in 2008 and his S.M. and PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012 and 2016, where he worked with Dr. Feng Zhang and Dr. Aviv Regev. He then performed postdoctoral research with Dr. Guoping Feng and Dr. Zhanyan Fu in the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research. During the course of his doctoral and postdoctoral research, Yinqing pioneered several advances in engineering and characterization of cell and gene editing tools with TALE and CRISPR, co-invented single-nucleus transcriptome profiling technologies, and broadened these tools to systematically interrogate cortical-thalamic circuity function and in disease models.

He holds an affiliate position the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and visiting position in the Karolinska Institutet.

Yinqing has received prestigious fellowships and awards for his work, including MIT TR 35 under 35, China (2018), the Thousand Talents Plan for Young Professionals (2017), Extraordinary Potential Prize of 2016 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad (2016), Wenner-Gren Fellowship (2016), and McGovern Institute Fellowship (2013).