Dr. Kai Zhang is an Assistant Professor in the School of Life Sciences and the School of Engineering at Westlake University. He earned his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology from the University of California, San Diego, where he worked with Prof. Wei Wang on gene regulatory networks in mammalian cells. During his postdoctoral research in the lab of Prof. Bing Ren at University of California San Diego, Kai explored single cell epigenomics to develop algorithms that map cis-regulatory elements using single-cell data.