Guanyu Wang obtained one PhD (in engineering) from Zhejiang University, China, in 1998 and one PhD (in medical sciences) from the University of Cologne, Germany, in 2005. As a postdoctoral fellow, he was initially at the School of Health Information of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and then at the Department of Bioengineering, Rice University. He was an assistant professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and then an assistant professor of Physics at George Washington University. He is now an associate professor of biology at South University of Science and Technology of China, located in the city of Shenzhen.