Biography
Kaixiong received his Bachelor's degree in Biology from Wuhan University. He worked briefly at the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) as a bioinformatician before he joined the graduate school at Cornell University, where he earned his Ph.D. degree in Nutritional Genomics under the supervision of Dr. Zhenglong Gu. He received his postdoctoral training in Computational Biology with Dr. Alon Keinan. Kaixiong started his own research group at UGA in 2018. Kaixiong's research has been driven by his curiosity of the evolution and diversity of life, and by his passion for improving human health. He was tenured and promoted to be Associate Professor in 2024.