Dai received her Bachelor degree in Polymer Science and Engineering from Zhejiang University. She obtained PhD degree in chemistry from The Chinese University of Hong Kong under the supervision of Prof Chi Wu, where she investigated the polymer chain dynamics, interactions between the polycations and polyanions and cell-material interactions from the view of polymer physics and chemistry. Then, she undertook postdoctoral training at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University in Prof Lingchong You’s lab, where she integrated the stimulus-sensitive materials with synthetic gene circuit to build a versatile manufacturing platform. Since Sep, 2018, she started her lab in iSynBio, focusing on the living fabrications by the engineered bacteria and miniaturized device for protein manufacturing and screening.