Zengyou He is an associate professor in the School of Software at Dalian University of Technology, China. He received the BS, MS, and PhD degrees in computer science from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 2000, 2002, and 2006, respectively. He was a research associate in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from February 2007 to February 2010. Since March 2010, he has been an associate professor in the School of Software at Dalian University of Technology. His research interests include computational proteomics and biological data mining. He has published more than 30 papers on leading journals in the field of bioinformatics, including Bioinformatics, BMC Bioinformatics, Briefings in Bioinformatics, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and Journal of computational Biology. His research work has been widely cited, with more than 2000 times according to the number of citations returned by Google Scholar.