Xiao Zhang graduated with a BSc from Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University in June 2011, majoring in biological science. He studied biochemistry and molecular biology in Fourth Military Medical University (2011–2017) and Texas A&M University (2017–2017), and received his doctorate in June 2017. He then worked at Hainan Hospital of PLA General Hospital for three years. In 2020, He worked at the Fourth Military Medical University (Air Force Medical University), and has been working at Molecular Targeted Cancer Therapy and Tumor biomarker.