Zefeng Wang PhD

Zefeng Wang is a principal investigator and director in the CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology (PICB) at Shanghai. He received his bachelor degrees as double major in Biological Science and Computer Technology from Tsinghua University in Beijing. He received his PhD degree at Johns Hopkins Medical School at Baltimore, US, after which he worked a Damon Runyon fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He became an assistant professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2007 and was promoted as associate professor with tenure in 2013. In 2015, he moved his lab to Shanghai and became the director of the PICB, which is a partner institute jointly run by Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) and Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (MPG).