Prof. Dai received his B.S. in physics at University of Science and Technology of China and Ph.D. in physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a HHMI postdoctoral fellow of Jane Coffin Childs Fund at UCLA from 2015 to 2018. His work was published in Science, Nature, PNAS, eLife and other prestigious journals. He was awarded the Outstanding Thesis Research in Biological Physics by American Physical Society in 2014.