Dr. Jie Huang is an Associate Professor and Principal Investigator at the School of Public Health and Emergency Management, Southern University of Science and Technology. Dr. Huang had a long track of interdisciplinary education and research experience in world-renowned institutions, including an undergraduate study at Peking University School of Public Health, and four graduate degrees (Masters degree from Beijing Sport University, University of Michigan School of Information, and University of North Carolina Chapel Hill School of Public Health, and a PhD degree from University of Cambridge). Dr. Huang worked as an instructor at Harvard Medical School and a senior research scientist at the VA Healthcare Boston. He has published ~100 peer reviewed papers in leading scientific journals, including first-author papers in Nature, Nature Communications, Blood, Briefs in Bioinformatics, Nucleic Acids Research, American Journal of Psychiatry, etc. He published a book “The Name of Gene” in August 2018 and won a couple of prestigious national awards in the same year. In 2022, his second book “A Brief History of Nucleic Acids” was published by Peking University Press.