Guangyuan Song holds a bachelor's degree in biological sciences from Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University and a master's degree in microbiology from Anhui Medical University. He conducted research on the Zika virus under Professor Chengfeng Qin, publishing as the first author in Nature Communications. Currently pursuing a PhD at Westlake University in Professor Dapeng Li's lab, Guangyuan focuses on immunology and virology of emerging infectious diseases.