CV

Education, experience, awards, and patents.

Contact Information

Name Hao Xu
Professional Title Investigator, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Email haoxu0303@gmail.com
Location Boston, MA

Professional Summary

Develops trustworthy AI for molecular and systems biology, with the long-term goal of building world models that connect molecular interventions to system-level biological responses. Emphasis on interpretability, uncertainty, robustness, generalization, and mechanistic consistency.

Experience

  • 2026 - present

    Boston, MA

    Investigator & Instructor
    Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
  • 2024 - 2026

    Boston, MA

    Research Fellow
    Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
  • 2024 - 2026

    Boston, MA

    Affiliated Research Fellow
    Department of Physics, Network Science Institute, Northeastern University
  • 2023 - 2024

    Waltham, MA

    Postdoctoral Associate
    Department of Computer Science, Brandeis University
  • 2023 - 2024
    Affiliated Postdoctoral Associate
    GlycoMIP (NSF-funded Materials Innovation Platform, Virginia Tech & University of Georgia)

Education

  • 2017 - 2022

    Boston, MA

    Ph.D. in Chemistry
    Boston College
  • 2020 - 2022

    Atlanta, GA

    M.S. in Computer Science
    Georgia Institute of Technology
  • 2015 - 2017

    Dallas, TX

    M.S. in Computational Chemistry
    Southern Methodist University
  • 2011 - 2015

    Beijing, China

    B.S. in Chemistry & B.Econ. in Finance
    China Agricultural University

Patents

  • Machine Learning Framework for Prediction and Assignment of 2D NMR Spectra. Pengyu Hong, Yunrui Li, Hao Xu. US Patent App. 63/708,341.
  • Cobalt(II)-Based Catalytic System for Asymmetric Intramolecular Aziridination. X. Peter Zhang, Hao Xu. US Patent App. 63/589,044.

Academic Service

  • Reviewer for journals: Nature Communications, Communications Chemistry, Journal of Cheminformatics, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, Quantum Science and Technology, Journal of Medical Internet Research, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Knowledge-Based Systems, Scientific Reports, Patterns, Sustainable Food Technology.
  • Reviewer for conferences: NeurIPS, CVPR, ECCV, ACM MM, COLM, COLING.