Professor  Chen Xing, first Yueh-Chi Scholar of CUMT, was employed as Deputy Editor of BMC  Systems Biology. BMC Systems  Biology publishes articles related to biological models and systems,  bioinformatics, and synthetic biology.

Professor  Chen Xing is a doctoral supervisor of the School of Information and Control  Engineering at CUMT. Here, he is also the director of the Institute of  Biological Information. Professor Chen mainly engaged in the field of  bioinformatics and systems biology. The research focuses on the exploration of  important problems in complex diseases, non-coding RNA and network pharmacology,  microbiology and other aspects by using complex network, machine learning, depth  learning, graph theory and combinatorial mathematics. His work has important  theoretical significance and practical guidance value.

Since June  2016, Professor Chen has published 23 SCI papers, and he has actively  participated in academic activities. In addition to serving as deputy editor of  BMC Systems Biology magazine, he also managed to organize two special editions  in Current Protein & Peptide Science identity and BioMed Research as the  lead guest editor. He has also organized a special edition in Evolutionary  Bioinformatics as the guest editor. He has also recently served as a member of  the procedural committee of ISB in 2016 and ISBRA in 2017, which are well-known  meetings of bioinformatics. He is also a reviewer of 35 internationally renowned  magazines and conferences.