Prof. Haibin Qu is a departmental head and professor at the Department of Chinese Medicine Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University. He completed his PhD studies in process control at Zhejiang University. He is also a director at the Pharmaceutical Informatics Institute of Zhejiang University. From 1990 to 1992, he was an assistant engineer at Baoshan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. He has published more than 170 papers in various journals. His research interests include total quality control of drug manufacturing; analysis and effective component identification in Chinese medicine; analytical technology for pharmaceutical processes and the metabonomics of Chinese medicine; and microarray data processing and analysis.