Jun WANG (WJ) graduated Ph.D. from the Peking University in 2002, the same year as he received the national excellent Ph.D thesis for highest academic standing from the Ministry of Education, China.

Jun WANG, founder and CEO of “iCarbonX”, was one of the co-founders and CEO of Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI). He holds a bachelor’s degree in artificial intelligence and a doctorate in bioinformatics from Peking University. During his doctoral studies in 1999, he participated in the establishment of BGI and presided over many major projects with international influence, including the 1,000 Human Genomes, intestinal microbiota, complex disease research, tumor genomics project, and thousands of animal and plant genomes. It is now widely recognized as one of China’s premier research facilities, committed to excellence in genome sciences. WJ has been leading the scientific direction and daily operation of BGI genomics and its informatics part since 2002.

He has published more than 400 papers of world-class level, including over 100 articles in top international journals such as Cell, Nature, Science and The New England Journal of Medicine. His scientific research results have been cited about 50,000 times, with ten of his articles cited more than 1,000 times. Thomson Reuters statistics show that he has been rated as a “highly cited and most popular scientist” for several years in a row. He was named a National Outstanding Youth, a 973 Chief Scientist, a National Candidate of the New Century Talents Project, a National Outstanding Professional and Technical Talent, a National Model Worker, one of the Top Ten Global Scientists of 2012 by Nature magazine, one of the Global 40 Elites Under 40 by Fortune magazine, and one of the 100 “Most Influential People in the Next 25 Years” by CNBC in 2014.