Dr. Wei Zheng, a Research Investigator at the University of Michigan, graduated from Nankai University's School of Mathematics with a major in Information Science, culminating in Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Bioinformatics from the same institution. While in school, he attended Keio University in Japan twice as an exchange student, in 2010–2011 and 2011–2012. He was a joint Ph.D. student in the Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics at the University of Michigan from 2015 to 2017. After August 2017, he held a postdoc position in the Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics at the University of Michigan, USA. His primary research interests involve protein structure prediction and protein function annotation. He is the main developer of a group of computational methods, including C-I-TASSER, C-QUARK, CEthreader, D-I-TASSER, DMFold, and LOMETS. These algorithms were applied in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction experiments (CASP13, CASP14, and CASP15) in 2018, 2020, and 2022, respectively, and ranked as the #1 servers for protein monomer structure prediction in all three of those competitions, in addition to achieving the title of overall champion for protein complex structure prediction in CASP15. As the primary author, he has published numerous SCI academic papers, in journals such as Nature Methods, Nature Communications, PNAS, Nucleic Acids Research, Bioinformatics, and other notable publications.