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Zhang received his B.A. in Chemistry from Southwest University in Chongqing, China. After moving to Shanghai, he completed his Ph.D. at the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC) with Prof. Xingang Zhang. His doctoral research involves the development of transition-metal-catalyzed difluoroalkylations. He then moved to New Jersey and began his postdoctoral studies with Prof. David W. C. MacMillan (2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry) at Princeton University. In 2017, he started his independent research career at Chongqing University in the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences.