Velia
An Zheng has work experience in the field of bioinformatics and software engineering. They worked as a Bioinformatics Scientist at Velia since April 2023. Prior to that, they worked as a Software Engineer at Google from May 2022 to March 2023. They also had internships at Google, serving as a Research Intern from May 2021 to August 2021, and as a Software Engineer Intern from June 2020 to September 2020. Their first internship at Google was in 2019, where they worked as a Software Engineer Intern from June 2019 to September 2019.
An Zheng began their education at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 2011, where they obtained a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics Information Engineering in 2015. They then pursued further education at UC San Diego and earned a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from 2015 to 2017. An Zheng continued their academic journey at UC San Diego and obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Science from 2017 to 2022.
Velia
Velia is an emerging biotech harnessing the broad therapeutic potential of a newly identified, yet abundant class of human proteins. Transformational work from Velia founders revealed that many of those previously overlooked proteins regulate biological functions vital to human health. Velia will discover and develop therapeutics targeting these novel regulators.