Dr. Wang is the Executive Director of the BGI. He was instrumental in the 1999 founding and the growth of the BGI Bioinformatics Department, which is now widely recognized as one of world’s premier research facilities committed to excellence in genome sciences. He also holds a position as an Ole Rømer professor at the University of Copenhagen. He has authored 100+ peer-reviewed original papers – of which 38 are published in Nature (including Nature series, 14 as cover story), and Science. Among those 38, WJ is the first/co-first author or corresponding/co-corresponding author for 24 (9 as cover) of them. He has been recognized with an award from His Royal Highness Prince Foundation in Denmark, an Outstanding Science and Technology Achievement from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Top 10 Scientific Achievements in China, and the prize for Important Innovation and Contribution from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on genomics and related bioinformatics analysis of complex diseases and agricultural crops, with the goal of developing applications using the genomic information.