{"id":3735,"date":"2026-01-23T15:56:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/?p=3735"},"modified":"2026-01-23T15:57:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:57:23","slug":"eichens-defense-and-commencement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/eichens-defense-and-commencement\/","title":{"rendered":"Beichen&#8217;s Defense and Commencement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On 11\/25\/2025, Beichen earned his doctorate following the successful defense of his doctoral dissertation, entitled &#8220;Discovering New Drugs for Retinitis Pigmentosa by Machine Learning Analysis of Zebrafish Visual Behavior.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_2320-1-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3737\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.5624933241779202;width:576px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_2320-1-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_2320-1-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_2320-1-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_2320-1-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_2320-1-1152x2048.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_2320-1-scaled.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A Happy PhD After His Defense<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Beichen&#8217;s commencement ceremony took place on 21 December 2025. We wish him every success in his career and a bright future ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/bcc2f3cc02ebf9fa263c2ee000368099-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/bcc2f3cc02ebf9fa263c2ee000368099-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/bcc2f3cc02ebf9fa263c2ee000368099-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/bcc2f3cc02ebf9fa263c2ee000368099-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/bcc2f3cc02ebf9fa263c2ee000368099-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/bcc2f3cc02ebf9fa263c2ee000368099.jpeg 1706w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 11\/25\/2025, Beichen earned his doctorate following the successful defense of his doctoral dissertation, entitled &#8220;Discovering New Drugs for Retinitis Pigmentosa by Machine Learning Analysis of Zebrafish Visual Behavior.&#8221;\u00a0 Beichen&#8217;s commencement ceremony took place on 21 December 2025. We wish him every success in his career and a bright future ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,254,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faisharing","category-lab-activities","category-lab-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3735"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3743,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3735\/revisions\/3743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leung.bio.purdue.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}