Dr. Quan Zou is a Professor of Computer Science at Tianjin University. He received his PH.D. from Harbin Institute of Technology, P.R.China in 2009. From 2009 to 2015, he is an assistant and associate professor in 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. Google scholar showed that his more than 100 papers have been cited more than 2000 times (update in 2016.9).