Dr. Zhang received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, China in 2004 and 2006, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2011. Dr. Zhang joined the Center for Biomarker Discovery and Translation as a Research Associate in 2011. His research interests include machine learning, bioinformatics and computational biology, with an emphasis on their applications in biomedical research. Currently, his research is mainly focused on bioinformatics and statistical analysis for the National Cancer Institute's Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC).