Lei Chen MD, PhD, works in the Physiology, Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky. During 5 years of clinical practice in Neurology and over 20 years of basic research in neuroscience, he has developed a wide spectrum of expertise and skills in the field of stroke, brain trauma, and other chronic neurological diseases. His experience includes promotion of brain function restoration through neural stem cells therapy, examination of post-injury neurogenesis and angiogenesis, study of blood-brain barrier function and disruption, regulation of cerebrovascular tone, and investigation of neuronal stress and degeneration in Alzheimer’s disease. Moreover, through collaboration with a Bioengineering team, we have developed and optimized several novel noninvasive brain functional and hemodynamic imaging systems that can evaluate the brain activities under relaxing or stressed conditions with minimal interference of animals’ normal behavior. Some of these techniques are in the process of translation into clinical applications.

Tao Huang is an Associate Professor at Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He completed his post-doctoral research in the Department of Genetics and Genomics Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York City, USA. His research interests include bioinformatics, computational biology, systems genetics and big data research. He has published over 200 articles. He has been the Editor or Guest Editor for over 30 journals and Reviewer for 170 journals. He is a Highly Cited Chinese Researcher (2020) and included among the World's Top 2% Scientists (2020, 2021).

Dr. Chun Li is currently a Professor at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Hainan Normal University, China. He received the PhD degree from Dalian University of Technology in 2006. His research interests include computational biology, bioinformatics, system biology, data mining and machine learning. He has published more than 40 research papers in this field.

Prof. Lei Wang received the PhD degree in computer science from Hunan University, P.R.China, in 2005. From 2005 to 2007, he was a postdoctoral fellow in Tsinghua University, P.R.China. After that, he moved to the USA and Canada as a visiting scholar in Duke University and Lakehead University, successively. Currently, he is a full professor and an academic leader of Computer Engineering in Changsha University, P.R.China. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles. His main research areas include bioinformatics and Internet of Things.

Dr. Weiwei Wang received his Doctoral degree from Beijing institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He finished his post-doctoral training and worked as a research associate at the University of Alberta in Canada. He is presently serving as a CTO，Vice President, R&D Director in Genesis (Beijing) Co. and focusing on IVD assay development/related translational studies including cancer related ctDNA/cfRNA identification, using NGS/nanopore sequencing; clinical metagenomics; virome enrichment and sequencing; single-cell multi-omics; and microfluidic-chip based assays. He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed papers/book chapters in the journals related to oncology, virology, immunology, metagenomics, genomics, proteomics, etc.

Bing Wang received the Ph.D. degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 2006. He is a full professor and Dean in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Anhui University of Technology, China. He has published more than 200 journals and conference papers. His research interests mainly focus on Bioinformatics, computer vision, machine learning, and Chemoinformatics. He is a senior member of IEEE from 2014.