Prof. Xuegong Zhang earned his BS degree in Industrial Automation in 1989 and Ph.D. degree in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems in 1994, both from Tsinghua University. He joined the faculty of Tsinghua University in 1994, where he is now a Professor of Pattern Recognition and Bioinformatics in the Department of Automation, and an Adjunct Professor of the School of Life Sciences and also the School of Medicine. Dr. Zhang worked at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health as a visiting scientist on computational biology in 2001-2002 and 2006, and had been a visiting scholar in the MCB program at University of Southern California in 2007. He is the Director of the Bioinformatics Division, Beijing National Research Institute for Information Science and Technology (BNRist). He is the Chair of the Committee for Bioinformatics and Artificial Life in the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI), and is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). Dr. Zhang was elected as ISCB Fellow in 2020. His research interests include machine learning and data science, genomic and medical data analysis.