Weihua Pan, Research Professor, PhD advisor, awarded as Shenzhen Overseas High-level Talent. He graduated from University of California, Riverside in 2019 and received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and a master degree in Statistics. He subsequently worked as a Lane Fellow in School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. He has been working on algorithm design related to genome sequence analysis. His major achievements have been published in top conferences such as RECOMB, ISMB and professional journals like National Science Review, Molecular Plant, Bioinformatics, Genomics Proteomics & Bioinformatics, Plant Physiology. He is leading a number of research programs such as National Natural Science Foundation of China and Shenzhen Outstanding Science and Technology Innovation Talent Cultivation Project. He is a member of the Special Committee on Bioinformatics Algorithms of the Chinese Society of Bioinformatics, and a member of the Special Committee on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics of the Chinese Society of Bioengineering. He is a guest editor of Frontiers in Plant Science and Genes.

Working Experience

2020.09-Present: Agricultural Genomics Institute at Shenzhen, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Professor

2019.09-2020.08: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Lane Fellow

Education Experience

2014.09-2019.09: University of California, Riverside, Computer Science, Ph.D.

2016.09-2018.06: University of California, Riverside, Statistics, M.S.

2011.09-2014.06: University of Science and Technology of China, Computer Software and Theory, M.E.

2007.09-2011.06: Nanjing Normal University, Computer Science and Technology, B.E.