Hi, I am a postdoctoral researcher in Pieter C. Dorrestein's lab at UC San Diego.
I am passionate about mass spectrometry informatics and metabolomics. My research focuses on developing computational tools to facilitate molecule discovery at the repository scale.
Contact me: philipxsp@hotmail.com
Education & Employment
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2023.8 – Present
University of California, San Diego
Postdoctoral researcher
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2019.1 – 2023.4
University of British Columbia
Ph.D. in Chemistry
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2014.9 – 2018.6
Zhejiang University
B.Sc. in Chemistry (Qiushi Honors Program, Chu Kochen Honors College)
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2017.3 – 2017.9
University of Utah
Visiting scholar
Publications
See Google Scholar for my full publication list.
Featured Publications:
- [bioRxiv, 2026] Navigating the conjugated metabolome.
Shipei Xing*, Abubaker Patan, Julius Agongo, Harsha Gouda, Vincent Charron-Lamoureux, Yasin El Abiead, Zhewen Hu, Haoqi Nina Zhao, Ipsita Mohanty, Jasmine Zemlin, Wilhan Donizete Gonçalves Nunes, Lindsey A. Burnett, Mingxun Wang, Dionicio Siegel, Pieter C. Dorrestein*. - [bioRxiv, 2025] Charting the undiscovered metabolome with synthetic multiplexing.
Abubaker Patan†, Shipei Xing† (co-first), Vincent Charron-Lamoureux†, Zhewen Hu, Victoria Deleray, Julius Agongo, Yasin El Abiead, Helena Mannochio-Russo, Ipsita Mohanty, Harsha Gouda, Jasmine Zemlin, Prajit Rajkumar, Carlynda Lee, Daniel Leanos, Noah Weimann, Wataru Tsuda, Sadie Giddings, Tammy Bui, Kine Eide Kvitne, Haoqi Nina Zhao, Simone Zuffa, Vivian Nguyen, Aileen Andrade, Wilhan Donizete Gonçalves Nunes, Andrés M. Caraballo-Rodríguez, Lurian Caetano David, Jeremy Carver, Nuno Bandeira, Mingxun Wang, Lindsey Burnett, Dionicio Siegel, Pieter C. Dorrestein*. - [Nature Methods, 2023] BUDDY: molecular formula discovery via bottom-up MS/MS interrogation.
Shipei Xing, Sam Shen, Banghua Xu, Xiaoxiao Li, Tao Huan*. - [bioRxiv, 2024] Structural annotation of full-scan MS data: A unified solution for LC-MS and MS imaging analyses.
Shipei Xing, Vincent Charron-Lamoureux, Måns Ekelöf, Yasin El Abiead, Huaxu Yu, Oliver Fiehn, Theodore Alexandrov, Pieter C. Dorrestein*. - [Analytical Chemistry, 2025] Reverse spectral search reimagined: a simple but overlooked solution for chimeric spectral annotation.
Shipei Xing*, Vincent Charron-Lamoureux, Haoqi Nina Zhao, Yasin El Abiead, Mingxun Wang, Pieter C. Dorrestein*. - [Analytical Chemistry, 2021] SteroidXtract: deep learning-based pattern recognition enables comprehensive and rapid extraction of steroid-like metabolic features for automated biology-driven metabolomics.
Shipei Xing, Yibo Jiao, Melody Salehzadeh, Kiran K Soma, Tao Huan*. - [Analytical Chemistry, 2020] Retrieving and utilizing hypothetical neutral losses from tandem mass spectra for spectral similarity analysis and unknown metabolite annotation.
Shipei Xing, Yan Hu, Zixuan Yin, Min Liu, Xiaoyu Tang, Mingliang Fang, Tao Huan*. - [Analytica Chimica Acta, 2022] Radical fragment ions in collision-induced dissociation-based tandem mass spectrometry.
Shipei Xing, Tao Huan*. - [Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 2021] Recognizing contamination fragment ions in liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry data. (Invited, JASMS 'Emerging Investigators' focus section)
Shipei Xing, Huaxu Yu, Min Liu, Qingquan Jia, Zhi Sun, Mingliang Fang, Tao Huan*.