Fangqing Zhao, Professor and principal investigator. He has successively received the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars of China (2017), Beijing NSF Outstanding Scholarship Award (2018), National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars of China (2020), and was appointed as a Distinguished Professor by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2022. He currently serves as the Director of the Genomic Informatics Branch of the Chinese Society of Bioinformatics. Dr. Zhao is mainly devoted to establishing efficient algorithm models and experimental techniques, exploring the composition and dynamics of the human microbiome and non-coding RNA, with the aim of deciphering their relationships with human health and disease. He has served as Associate Editor or Editorial Board Member for more than 10 academic journals, including Briefings in Bioinformatics, Science Bulletin, Science China Life Sciences, Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics, Journal of Genetics and Genomics, mLife, etc.
 Dr. Zhao has published more than 100 corresponding author papers in journals such as Cell, Gut, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Methods, Nature Genetics, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Computational Science, and Nature Communications. His papers have been cited over 15,000 times (H-index 55), with more than ten papers being recognized as highly cited according to ESI. He has received the "Outstanding Supervisor Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences" for six consecutive years (2017 to 2023), and twice received the "Lingyan Award of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences", the "Zhu Liyuehua Outstanding Teacher Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences," and the "BHP Outstanding Mentor Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences." He has mentored seven graduate students who have received the "President's Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences" and the "Outstanding Doctoral Thesis of the Chinese Academy of Sciences." Currently, he is responsible for projects such as the Chief Scientist of the National Key R&D Program, the National Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars and Key Projects.

赵方庆，研究员，博士生导师。先后获得基金委优青（2017）、北京杰青（2018）、国家杰青（2020）和中科院特聘研究员（2022）。现任中国生物信息学会基因组信息学分会主任。在 Briefings in Bioinformatics、Science Bulletin、Science China Life Sciences、Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics 等国际学术刊物担任副主编或编委。主要致力于建立高效的算法模型和实验技术，探索人体微生物与非编码RNA的结构组成与变化规律，以期解析它们与人类健康和疾病的关系。在 Cell、Gut、Nature Biotechnology、Nature Methods、Nature Genetics、Nature Cell Biology、Nature Computational Science和Nature Communications 等刊物上发表通讯作者论文100余篇，总引用次数超过1.5万次（H-index 55），其中十余篇入选ESI高被引论文；连续6年荣获“中国科学院优秀导师奖”（2017～2023），2次获得“中国科学院大学领雁奖章”、“中国科学院朱李月华优秀教师奖”、“中国科学院大学必和必拓导师奖”；培养的研究生已有7人次获得“中科院院长奖”和“中科院优博论文”。现承担国家重点研发计划首席科学家、基金委杰青和重点项目、军委科技委基础加强计划首席科学家等项目。