A Beijing institute for AI research and graduate education, pairing core AI work with applications in the life, physical, and social sciences.
Beijing Zhongguancun Academy (中关村学院) is a research and higher-education institute located in Beijing's Zhongguancun district, a hub for science and technology in China. The academy focuses on artificial intelligence and interdisciplinary innovation, bringing together research across computing and the natural sciences.
Beijing Institute of Technology / Beijing Zhongguancun Academy / Lomonosov Moscow State University / HSE University / Shenzhen MSU-BIT University
Released August 13, 2026
Multi-label therapeutic peptide classifier over frozen ProtT5 embeddings, scoring 15 bioactivities from antimicrobial to quorum-sensing in one pass.
Huazhong University of Science and Technology / Beijing Zhongguancun Academy
Released August 3, 2026
EEG foundation model coupling spatial and temporal transformer branches through a shared soft mixture-of-experts, adapted by tuning 5.1% of weights.
Tencent AI for Life Science Lab / Shanghai Jiao Tong University / Zhejiang University / Beijing Zhongguancun Academy
Released July 9, 2026
All-atom foundation model for immune-receptor design that predicts structures and co-designs CDR sequences for antibodies, nanobodies, and TCRs.
860M-parameter generative single-cell foundation model that jointly represents and generates epigenomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic modalities.
Autoregressive DNA foundation model for variant effect prediction, using 6-mer tokenization to match Evo2-7B win rates at far higher throughput.
Beijing Zhongguancun Academy / Mila / Université de Montréal / University of Science and Technology of China / HEC Montréal
Released January 29, 2026
Family of autoregressive genomic foundation models that reconcile k-mer tokenization with single-nucleotide resolution at contexts up to 98k bp.
Beijing Zhongguancun Academy / University of Science and Technology of China
Released October 31, 2025
Structure-based drug design model that generates ligands for a protein pocket, pairing a diffusion structure encoder with preference optimization.
Protein foundation model with 3B parameters, pretrained jointly on sequence and 3D structure via masked language modeling and diffusion denoising.
Beijing Zhongguancun Academy / Zhongguancun Institute of Artificial Intelligence / Tsinghua University / Peking University / Georgia Institute of Technology
Released September 23, 2025
Hierarchical transformer for virus discovery in metagenomes, classifying viral genomes across taxonomic ranks and flagging candidate novel lineages.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences / Beijing Zhongguancun Academy / Nanjing University
Released May 27, 2025
Compact 1.1M-parameter DNA language model distilled from Nucleotide Transformer v2, outperforming its 500M teacher on 11 of 18 benchmark tasks.
Alibaba Cloud / Beijing Zhongguancun Academy / Zhongguancun Institute of Artificial Intelligence / University of Science and Technology of China / Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) / Hong Kong University of Science and Technology / Mila / Université de Montréal / HEC Montréal / Carnegie Mellon University
Released February 11, 2025
Long-context generative genomic foundation model with a 98k-nucleotide window, trained on 386 billion bases of eukaryotic DNA for sequence design.
Beijing Institute of Technology / Aerospace Center Hospital / Beijing Zhongguancun Academy / University of Chinese Academy of Sciences / China Agricultural University
Released November 9, 2024
Prokaryotic promoter design and zero-shot promoter-strength ranking from a nucleotide language model pretrained on 17,806 microbial genomes.