Dr. Zheng is an incoming Assistant Professor at WashU. He is currently a BIDMaP Fellow in EECS at UC Berkeley and was previously a postdoc in Prof. Klavs F. Jensen’s group at MIT. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from UC Berkeley with Prof. Omar M. Yaghi, focusing on MOFs for atmospheric water harvesting. His recent work applies LLMs to data mining, reaction and materials design, and synthesis planning toward AI-driven autonomous chemistry.