Dr. Yanjie Wei is a professor and the executive director in Center for High Performance Computing, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

He earned his Ph.D in 2007 at Michigan Tech University in the field of computational biophysics.

From 2008 to 2011, he worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University.

His research focuses on high performance computing and computational biology/bioinformatics. 

He is serving as the editorial member for Future Generation Computer Systems and Interdisciplinary Sciences--Computational Life Sciences. 

He has published more than 100 peer reviewed journal/conference papers, including Nucleic Acids Research, PloS Computational Biology，Briefings in Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics, Cell Research, BMC Bioinformatics, Proteins, J of Chemical Theory and Computation, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, ICPP2016, ICPP2018, PPoPP2015.