Kang Ning, Professor, PI of Microbial Bioinformatics Group, Director of Department of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, School of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology.

Kang Ning obtained his BS in Computer Science from USTC, and PhD in Bioinformatics from NUS. He has had his Post-Doc training in Bioinformatics from University of Michigan.

Kang has more than 20 years of experiences in bioinformatics for omics big-data integration, microbiome analyses and single-cell analyses. His current research interests include AI method for multi-omics especially metagenomics data mining, as well as their applications. He is also interested in synthetic biology and high-performance-computation.

Kang is the leading or corresponding author of over 80 papers and reviews on leading journals including Gut, Genome Biology, Nucleic Acids Research, Briefings in Bioinformatics and Bioinformatics, which have more than 2,000 citations. He has been the committee members of several national bioinformatics and biology big-data committees in China. He serves as an editorial board member of the journal Genomics Proteomics and Bioinformatics, and Scientific Reports, and served as reviewers for several international funding agencies including UK-BBSRC and UK-NERC. He has collaborations with biologists, doctors and statisticians in many countries, and has given talks on international conferences for several tens of times. For details, please refer to his official website as: http://www.microbioinformatics.org/.