Ziwei Dai

Dr. Ziwei Dai is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology, Southern University of Science and Technology, where she leads interdisciplinary research bridging computational and systems biology. She completed her PhD in Physical Chemistry at Peking University's Center for Quantitative Biology in 2016 and conducted postdoctoral training at Duke University's Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology (2016-2020).

Research Focus:

• Cancer metabolism (glucose & amino acid dysregulation)
• Metabolic regulation of epigenetics/gene expression
• Biological network modeling
• Multi-omics data analysis

Publication Trends: Her 15 most recent works (2018-2021) demonstrate expertise in metabolic network modeling, cancer epigenetics, and computational approaches to nutrient metabolism. Common subfields include flux analysis, chromatin biology, and tumor microenvironment characterization.

Scientific Recognition:

• Robert J. Fitzgerald Scholar Award (2018)
• National Graduate Scholarship (2014)
• President Scholarship, Peking University (2014)

Her research has achieved over 1,200 citations by 2021 and includes multiple cover articles in journals like Nature, Cell Metabolism, and Science Advances.