Dr. Quan Zou is a Professor of Computer Science at Tianjin University. He completed his PH.D. from the Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R.China in 2009. From 2009 to 2015, he remained an assistant and associate professor in the Xiamen University, P.R.China. His research is in the areas of bioinformatics, machine learning and parallel computing. Several related works have been published by Science, Briefings in Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics, etc. The data of Google scholar showed that more than 100 of his papers have been cited for more than 2000 times (update in 2016.9).