Xiaoping Liu is a professor at the School of Life and Health Sciences, Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS. His main research interests are network-based analysis of complex disease mechanisms, analysis and processing of biological big data, bioinformatics and computational systems biology. He has published more than 30 SCI papers inNational Science Review,Nucleic Acids Research,Briefings in Bioinformatics, Cancer Letters, Bioinformatics,PLoS Computational Biologyand other journals. He is currently a member of the Genetic Testing Technology Branch of China Medicinal Biotech Association, member of the Computational Systems Biology Society of Operations Research Society of China, and member of the Biomedical Data Mining and Computing Professional Group. He has served as Academic Editor atBioMed Research International(SCI Journal) and Guest Editor atFrontiers in Genetics(SCI Journal). For details, please refer to: http://people.ucas.ac.cn/~liuxp.