Aidong Zhang
Department of Computer Science and Engineering

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
U.S.A.
Homepage: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/azhang

Short Biography:
Dr. Aidong Zhang is a professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo and the director of the Buffalo Center for Biomedical Computing (BCBC). She is an author of more than 200 research publications and has served on many editorial boards of prestigious journals. Dr. Zhang is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and SUNY (State University of New York) Chancellor’s Research Recognition Award. Dr. Zhang is an IEEE Fellow.

Bo Yuan
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Short Biography:
Bo Yuan is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU). Before coming back to China in 2006, he was a tenure-track faculty member at the Ohio State University (OSU), USA, while serving as a co-director for the OSU Program in Pharmacogenomics. At the OSU, Yuan was the founding director for the OSU's Genome Informatics Initiative during the early 2000's, leading one of the only three independent efforts in the world (besides the Human Genome Project and the Celera company), having assembled and deciphered the entire human and mouse genomes. Yuan received his bachelor degree from Peking University Medical School in 1983, China; MS in Biochemistry and Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics from University of Louisville in 1990 and 1995, USA, respectively. At SJTU, his own research focuses on biological networks, network evolution, autonomous system and adaptive computation, biologically-inspired computing, and bioinformatics, particularly on how they might impact the development of intelligent algorithms and systems.