Zhengyang was born and raised in Singapore. He obtained his Bachelor Degree in Chemistry from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in 2009. He was awarded the Nanyang President's Graduate Scholarship, and he pursued his Ph.D research in the same institute under the supervision of Prof. Howe Siang Tan, working on the development of multidimensional optical spectroscopy. In 2014, he joined Prof. Ke Xu at the University of California, Berkeley for postdoctoral research on super-resolution microscopy. In 2016, he returned to NTU for postdoctoral research. In 2018, he joined the Division of Chemistry and Biological Chemistry in NTU as a lecturer.