Zhen Xie is a Principle Investigator in Bioinformatics Division, Tsinghua National Lab for Information Science and Technology at Tsinghua University. He holds his PH.D in Biology from University of Nevada Las Vegas. Before joining Tsinghua University, he did his postdoctoral training at FAS Center for Systems Biology in Harvard University from 2006 to 2010, and Department of Biological Engineering, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab in Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2010 to 2011. He received Junior “1000 Plan” Program Award in 2011. He has been serving as Assistant Editor-in-Chief for Quantitative Biology journal since 2013. He is interesting in engineering genetic circuits to manipulate and program mammalian cells for gene and cell therapies for cancers.