Wang Jun (scientist)

[1] While studying as a PhD student at Peking University, in 1999 Wang founded the bioinformatics group at BGI, which lead China's contribution to sequencing 1% of the Human Genome Project.

[2] His team was subsequently involved in efforts to genetically sequence the first Asian person,[3] the rice plant,[4] SARS, the giant panda,[5] silkworms,[6] pigs,[7] chickens,[8] goats,[9] and the human gut microbiome,[10] amongst other organisms.

[11][12] He was an Ole Romer professor at the University of Copenhagen and co-authored more than 100 papers.

[13] In July 2015, he announced he would be stepping down from his role at BGI to set up iCarbonX and focus on developing artificial intelligence,[14][15] saying that "both life sciences and genomics have now run into a bottleneck in handling data from tens of thousands of samples... AI and machine learning could do something with big data and for people's health.

"[16] Presenting his efforts in setting up iCarbonX and establishing a big data platform for health management at the TED 2017 Conference.