Jiayi graduated from the University of Edinburgh with an MSc degree in Bioinformatics in 2021. His master's research focused on developing a new workflow for comprehensive structural variation investigation by long and short sequencing data and performing the downstream analysis for functional prediction. Before this, he completed his undergraduate study at the University of Liverpool and Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University with the major in Genetics and Bioinformatics. He has developed a strong interest in evolution and computational genomics after studying biology for years. His PhD project focuses on understanding how pathogenic strains spread across within clinical and environmental settings. He will apply the machine learning approach to modelling the epidemic transmission between humans and other species. With the help of high-throughput sequencing, he will try to identify the informative biomarkers in the pathogen genome which caused the variants.