Dr. Jake Chen is an assistant professor of informatics at Indiana University School of Informatics and an assistant professor of computer science at Purdue University Department of Computer and Information Science. In addition to being a member of the CCBB, he is also the founding director of the Indiana Center for Systems Biology and Personalized Medicine at IUPUI, chair of IEEE Society of Engineering in Biology and Medicine of the Central Indiana Chapter, and senior members of IEEE and ACM. He received both MS and PhD degrees in computer science & engineering from the University of Minnesota at Twin Cities and a BS degree in molecular biology and biochemistry from Peking University, China. Prior to coming back to Academia, he worked for more than five years in the biotech industry (at Affymetrix, Inc. and Myriad Proteomics Inc.) to perform and lead cutting-edge informatics R&D. His current research interest is to develop computational techniques and software to enable future genome medicine and personalized medicine. He has been well published in the areas of biological data management, biological data mining, network biology, proteomics, and computational systems biology. He edited two recent books in bioinformatics, Biological Database Modeling and Biological Data Mining. He has given more than 100 invited research presentations worldwide, chaired or served on the program committee for more than 90 conferences and workshops, and authored more than 70 research publications at top journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters.