Yuanning was born in Dandong, Liaoning and grew up in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. After obtaining the gold medal in the Chinese Chemistry Olympiad Final, he started his undergraduate studies at Tsinghua University in 2012. Yuanning worked on organic synthesis and supramolecular self-assembly in Professor Mei-Xiang Wang’s group at Tsinghua University from 2013 to 2015. He received the Tsinghua Xuetang Fellowship which financially support him to work as a Undergraduate Visiting Scholar in Professor Jonathan Sessler’s group at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2016, he completed his BSc Degree in Chemical Biology under the supervision of Professor Xi Zhang with a research project on supra-amphiphiles. After that, Yuanning joined Nobel Laureate Professor Fraser Stoddart’s group at Northwestern University, working on artificial molecular machines and graduated with a PhD Degree in 2021. During his PhD, he used to spend his time with Professor Douglas Philp (University of St Andrews) working on a supramolecular polymer incorporating systems chemistry as well as working as a Graduate Visiting Scholar at the University of New South Wales. Yuanning expanded his interests into interdisciplinary research during his time working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Stoddart Group, fusing concepts in organic synthesis, supramolecular chemistry, polymer science, biomedical engineering and nanotechnology.