Dr. Zhen Xie is a Professor in Bioinformatics Division, Tsinghua National Lab for Information Science and Technology at Tsinghua University. He has been serving as Assistant Editor-in-Chief for Quantitative Biology journal since 2013. His research goal is to construct synthetic molecular systems to study complex biological phenomena, and to engineer genetic circuits for manipulation of cells, especially mammalian cells in a non-destructive way. Specifically, He is interested to link molecular information processing with cellular decision making and apply this technology platform to addressing key challenges in biomedical and biotechnology applications.