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Dr. Wang has been working on integrating computational approaches and biological data to investigate the biology underlying human diseases for over 8 years. He earned his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. During his Ph.D. career, he spent two years in Genetics at Dartmouth College as a visiting scholar. His major research focus was computationally identifying novel biomarkers for predicting survival outcomes in breast cancer. During his postdoctoral research in the Department of Biomedical Data Science at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth he worked on drug repositioning, novel biomarkers identification, and patients ‘intrinsic’ subsets classification in Systemic Sclerosis (SSc, a rare autoimmune disease) in the Whitfield lab. Frank then became a research scientist in the same lab and continued his computational research in SSc. He has interest and expertise in performing computational analyses in different biological data types including microarray, DNA methylation, ChIP-seq, single-cell/bulk RNA-seq, and ATAC-seq data.