Cho-Yi Chen is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the National Yang-Ming University. He grew up actively involved in sports and loving science and technology, which led him to become an Olympic swimmer and later an active scientist in genomics and systems biology. He received his BS, MS, and PhD from the National Taiwan University and Academia Sinica, and finished his postdoctoral training at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard University. He is a founding member of Taiwan’s Society of Evolution and Computational Biology, and also a recipient of the MOST Young Scholar Fellowship for his dedication to biomedical research. He and his group are striving to advance our understanding of cancer and other human diseases.