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Education

• 2012—2016 School of Aerospace, Tsinghua University, B.S.
• 2013—2016 Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University, B.S.
• 2016—2022 Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Ph.D.

Academic Appointments

• 2018—2020 Rockefeller University, Visiting Scholar
• 2022—2024 Tsinghua University, Postdoctoral Fellow
• 2025—present School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Assistant Professor
• 2025—present Center for Life Sciences & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Tsinghua University, Principal Investigator

Selected Publications

• Yuanlong Zhang, Mingrui Wang, Qiyu Zhu*, Yuduo Guo, Bo Liu, Jiamin Li, Xiao Yao, Chui Kong, Yi Zhang, Yuchao Huang, Hai Qi, Jiamin Wu‡, Zengcai V. Guo‡, & Qionghai Dai‡. “Long-term mesoscale imaging of 3D intercellular dynamics across a mammalian organ”, Cell (2024).
• Yuanlong Zhang, Lekang Yuan, Qiyu Zhu*, Jiamin Wu, Tobias Nöbauer, Rujin Zhang, Guihua Xiao, Mingrui Wang, Hao Xie, Zengcai Guo, Qionghai Dai‡, and Alipasha Vaziri‡. “A miniaturized mesoscope for the large-scale single-neuron-resolved imaging of neuronal activity in freely behaving mice”, Nature Biomedical Engineering (2024).
• Guoxun Zhang, Xiaopeng Li, Yuanlong Zhang*, Xiaofei Han, Xinyang Li, Jinqiang Yu, Boqi Liu, Jiamin Wu‡, Li Yu‡, and Qionghai Dai‡. “Bio-friendly long-term subcellular dynamic recording by self-supervised image enhancement microscopy”, Nature Methods (2023).
• Xinyang Li, Yuanlong Zhang, Jiamin Wu‡, and Qionghai Dai‡. “Challenges and opportunities in bioimage analysis”, Nature Methods (2023).
• Yuanlong Zhang, Xiaofei Song, Jiachen Xie, Jing Hu, Jiawei Chen, Xiang Li, Chui Kong, Yibing Shen, Jiamin Wu‡, Lu Fang‡, and Qionghai Dai‡. “Large depth-of-field ultra-compact microscope by progressive optimization and deep learning”, Nature Communications (2023).
• Yuanlong Zhang, Guoxun Zhang, Xiaofei Han, Jiamin Wu, Ziwei Li, Xinyang Li, Guihua Xiao, Hao Xie, Lu Fang‡, and Qionghai Dai‡. “Rapid detection of neurons in widefield calcium imaging datasets after training with synthetic data”, Nature Methods (2023).
• Tobias Nöbauer, Yuanlong Zhang, Hyewon Kim, and Alipasha Vaziri‡. “Mesoscale volumetric light-field (MesoLF) imaging of neuroactivity across cortical areas at 18 Hz”, Nature Methods (2023).
• Yuanlong Zhang, Xiong Bo, Yi Zhang, Zhi Lu, Jiamin Wu‡, and Qionghai Dai‡. “DiLFM: an artifact-suppressed and noise-robust light-field microscopy through dictionary learning”, Light: Science & Applications (2021).

Awards

• 2022 Shuimu Scholar Program, Tsinghua University
• 2024 Outstanding Postdoctoral Fellowship (Top 10 / 3500)
• 2024 Tsinghua’s Top 10 Achievements (Faculty & Student Picks)
• 2024 Top 10 Science and Technology Advances in China and the World for 2024 (Selected by CAS and CAE Academicians)
• 2025 Significant Scientific and Technological Results of the 2025 Zhongguancun Forum

Last updated: 2025-11-10