Dr Xing received B.S. in Chemistry from Peking University, M.S. in Chemical Physics from University of Minnesota, and PhD in Theoretical Chemistry from UC Berkeley. After being a postdoc researcher in theoretical biophysics at UC Berkeley and an independent fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he assumed his first faculty position at Virginia Tech, then moved to University of Pittsburgh in 2015. Currently Dr Xing is a professor in the Computational and Systems Biology Department, School of Medicine, and an affiliated faculty member of Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh. He is also an affiliated member of University of Pittsburgh Hillman Cancer Center. Dr Xing’s research uses

statistical and chemical physics, dynamical systems theory, mathematical/computational modeling in combination with quantitative experimental techniques to study the dynamics and

mechanics of biological processes.