Yuanyuan earned his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where he focused on molecular mechanisms related to host-virus interactions.

His research interests center on host-pathogen interactions, immunology, and immune recognition. In the LI-IDImmune Lab, he is interested in how phagocytes recognize microbes as well as damaged, dying, or dead cells. One focus of his work is to understand how phagosomes formed during efferocytosis help decode death-associated signals. He is also interested in applying PhagoPL to study host-bacteria interactions, with the goal of identifying novel mechanisms of innate immune sensing and host-bacterial virulence counteraction.

Outside the lab, He enjoys watching movies and hiking.