Tingming Liang is an associate professor at the School of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University. He earned his PhD at the School of Life Science, Nanjing Normal University (2011). His research interests include cell biology, pathophysiology, systems biology, the regulation of non-coding RNAs (including microRNAs and lncRNAs) in complex diseases, especially metabolic diseases, and the study of dataset integration at the systems level, using bioinformatics, biostatistics, and systems biology methods.