ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 01/2013 – present: Senior Research Scientist, Department of Computer Science at Arkansas State University 08/2004 – 12/2012: Senior Research Scientist, Computational Systems Biology Laboratory in Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Georgia 01/2004 – 12/2005: Adjunct Professor, Institute of Software at Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 01/1998 – 07/2004: Research Fellow (50% time), Department of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong and Chinese University of Hong Kong 01/2000 – 06/2000: Research Associate, Department of Computer Science at the University of Vermont, USA 08/1998 -- present: Professor, Schools of Mathematics and Computer Science, Shandong University 08/1996 – 07/1998: Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Mathematics at Shandong University

Bioinformatics/Computational Biology Computer Science/Discrete Applied Mathematics Mathematical Modeling/Algorithm Design/Software Development