Dr. Zhu earned MS and PhD degrees in computer science and technology, Harbin Institute of Technology, China. He was a postdoctoral fellow and then a senior scientist in the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York. Before joining LMP, Zhu was a faculty member in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.