Fangda was enrolled in an 8-year MD program in Peking University from 2013. After obtaining his Bachelor of Medicine degree in 2018, he joined Prof. Edison’s lab at Imperial College London and was awarded a PhD's degree in brain sciences. He continued his clinical program from 2021 and obtained his MD’s degree in neurology in 2024. He is now a post-doctoral researcher in Tee Lab at UCSF, with his focus on neuroimaging research.

His research interest is the application of network technologies to decipher the pathological basis of neurodegenerative disorders at both macroscopic and microscopic scale.