Professor Xiang Zhang received his B.S. in Radiochemistry from Lanzhou University (Lanzhou, China) in 1989 and his M.S. in Nuclear Physics from Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Lanzhou, China) in 1992. He joined Purdue University (West Lafayette, Indiana) in 1996, and received his Ph.D. degree in Analytical Chemistry in 2001. After his graduation, Dr. Zhang joined Beyond Genomics, Inc., a systems biology company in Boston, to develop bioanalytical and bioinformatics platforms for disease biomarker discovery and validation. In 2004, Dr. Zhang returned to the Purdue University as a Research Assistant Professor and Lead Scientist at the Bindley Bioscience Center, to continue his research foci on biological data management, data integration and data mining for large scale proteomics and metabolomics research. He joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Louisville (Louisville, Kentucky) as an Associate Professor in 2008 and was promoted to Professor in 2011. Dr. Zhang also serves as an Associate Faculty member of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology and the Director of the Center for Regulatory and Environmental Analytical Metabolomics (CREAM) at the University of Louisville. His research centers on molecular systems biology by developing high throughput bioanalytical methods and bioinformatics tools for the analyses of complex mixtures derived from living systems. Dr. Zhang published 198 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. He also received multiple research awards in his career.