Dr. Zhihong (Joe) Zhang has served as Burning Rock's chief technology officer since March 2016. He obtained a bachelor's and master's degree in biochemistry and molecular biology from Fudan University in 1997 and 2000 and a Ph.D. in molecular genetics and microbiology from Duke University in 2005. After receiving his Ph.D., Joe landed a position in the genome science department of Howard Hughes Institute of Medicine at the University of Washington as a Senior Researcher. Before joining Burning Rock, Joe was a staff scientist of Illumina, Inc., and experienced in leading cross-functional project teams including marketing, operation, customer solution, bioinformatics, and software for several successfully launched products, including Infinium Omni 2.5M-8, 5M-4 gene sub-typing chip, TruSeq Dual Index Sequencing, TruSeq DNA Ht, TruSeq Stranded RNA HT, TruSeq Exome, TruSeq Synthetic Long-Read DNA.