Prof. Tong Wang

Prof. Tong Wang is an Assistant Professor at Purdue University, holding a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and completing postdoctoral fellowship training at Harvard Medical School. Operating at the intersection of computational biology, microbiology, and AI, Dr. Wang’s laboratory develops machine-learning methods and mechanistic models to decode microbial ecosystems. His research integrates diverse multi-omics datasets to uncover complex diet-microbe-host interactions shaping human health, pairing advanced computational predictions with synthetic microbial consortia wet-lab validation experiments.