Chair Prof. Ying Xu (AAAS Fellow and IEEE Fellow)

Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Ying Xu is a Chair Professor in the School of Medicine, Southern University of Science and Technology, China since January 2023. He is also a Cheungkong Scholar Chair Professor (2008 - ) and Qianren Chair Professor (2012 - ). Before that, he was a Regent Professor and the Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar Chair in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the University of Georgia (2003 – 2022/12) and the Founding Director of the Institute of Bioinformatics, the University of Georgia, USA (2003-2011). He is an AAAS Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. He has been a computational biologist since 1993 when he joined the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to take part in the Human Genome Project, where he worked for ten years and moved up the career ladder from a research associate to a senior staff scientist and group leader. He has published over 400 research papers and five books, including the world's first monograph “Cancer Bioinformatics”. His H-Index is 71 with ~20000 citations in scholar.google. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical computer science from the University of Colorado in 1991 and earlier degrees from Jilin University, China.