Wang Jun (scientist)

Wang Jun (Chinese: 王俊; born June 4, 1976) is a Chinese scientist, founder and CEO of iCarbonX, and former CEO of the Beijing Genomics Institute (now known as BGI).^[1]

While studying as a PhD student at Peking University, in 1999 Wang founded the bioinformatics group at BGI, which lead China's contribution to sequencing 1% of the Human Genome Project.^[2] His team was subsequently involved in efforts to genetically sequence the first Asian person,^[3] the rice plant,^[4] SARS, the giant panda,^[5] silkworms,^[6] pigs,^[7] chickens,^[8] goats,^[9] and the human gut microbiome,^[10] amongst other organisms.^[11]^[12]

He was an Ole Romer professor at the University of Copenhagen and co-authored more than 100 papers.^[13]

In July 2015, he announced he would be stepping down from his role at BGI to set up iCarbonX and focus on developing artificial intelligence,^[14]^[15] saying that "both life sciences and genomics have now run into a bottleneck in handling data from tens of thousands of samples... AI and machine learning could do something with big data and for people's health."^[16] Presenting his efforts in setting up iCarbonX and establishing a big data platform for health management at the TED 2017 Conference.^[17]

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