Dongqing Wei is a professor of Bioinformatics at Shanghai Jiaotong University and editor-in-chief of “Interdisciplinary Sciences- Computational Life Sciences”. Over the past three decades he has made many ground-breaking contributions to the development of AI and molecular simulation techniques and their interdisciplinary applications to systems of ever-increasing complexity. Published more than 350 papers, 9 monographs with 8000 SCI citations and an H -index of 55.