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Team

People who can run the experiment and train the model

A team from science and frontier AI research, connecting scientific questions, data and experimental feedback into one discovery loop.

  1. 01

    Scientific definition

    Start from a real unknown and turn it into a researchable, verifiable question.

  2. 02

    Model training

    Within DFM's capability definition, let models learn from scientific tasks and real feedback.

  3. 03

    Real execution

    Call tools, data and experimental environments so judgements meet reality.

  4. 04

    Continuous improvement

    Turn every result into the starting point of the next discovery.

Founding team

  • Yingcheng Wu

    Yingcheng Wu

    Co-founder & CEO

    AI postdoctoral scholar, Stanford · Fudan University

    From a science background, now working on AI for Science at Stanford, on biomedical world models and autonomous labs, with co-first-author papers in Cell, Nature and Science. Focused on bringing real scientific questions, experimental data and verification conditions into next-generation intelligent systems.

    • AI for life science and biomedicine
    • Scientific data and experimental feedback
    • Tumour microenvironment and immune atlases
  • Zhenfei Yin

    Zhenfei Yin

    Co-founder & President

    Postdoctoral researcher, Oxford · PhD, University of Sydney

    Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford and a PhD graduate of the University of Sydney; previously a research fellow at Shanghai AI Laboratory, and part of SenseTime's AGI group before the PhD. Works on foundation models that build AI agents for the physical and virtual world, spanning multimodal reasoning, embodied intelligence, multi-agent systems and AI Scientist systems for automated scientific discovery; representative work includes the open-source multi-agent robotics framework MARS.

    • Multimodal reasoning
    • Embodied intelligence
    • Multi-agent systems
    • AI Scientist systems and automated scientific discovery
    • Open systems and benchmarks
  • Ling Yang

    Ling Yang

    Co-founder & CSO

    Postdoctoral researcher, Princeton · Incoming faculty, Peking University

    Postdoctoral researcher in ECE at Princeton and incoming assistant professor at Peking University. Works on LLM and agent post-training, reinforcement-learning systems, recursive self-improvement and discovery intelligence. Founded the open-source research community Gen-Verse, whose projects have reached tens of millions of cumulative uses across GitHub and Hugging Face; serves as Area Chair for ICLR, ICML and NeurIPS. Representative work includes RLAnything, ReasonFlux, Buffer of Thoughts and MMaDA.

    • LLM and agent post-training
    • RL systems and infrastructure
    • Recursive self-improvement
    • Discovery intelligence

Core team

  • Tsinghua Tsinghua
  • Peking University Peking University
  • Stanford Stanford
  • Princeton Princeton
  • Oxford Oxford
  • UC Berkeley UC Berkeley
  • MIT MIT
  • ByteDance Seed ByteDance Seed
  • Google DeepMind Google DeepMind

Work with us

We are looking for researchers and engineers who care about scientific questions and want to build the systems themselves.

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