Huixiao Hong received a Ph.D. from Nanjing University in China where he was also an associate professor and the Director of the Laboratory of Computational Chemistry. He conducted post-doctoral research at the Maxwell Institute at Leeds University, England. Then, he became a visiting scientist at the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health and held a research scientist position at Sumitomo Chemical Company in Japan. He was a senior computational scientist at ROW Science and managed the Bioinformatics Division at Z-Tech, an ICFI company, at FDA’s National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR) from 2002–2007. From 2007–2018, he was an NCTR research chemist and a supervisory research chemist. He served as the Bioinformatics Branch Chief in the Division of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics from 2018–2021 and is currently a Senior Biomedical Research and Biomedical Product Assessment Service (SBRBPAS) expert and Bioinformatics branch chief.