Rong Xu received both her Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics and M.S in Computer Science from Stanford University, and B.S in Biology from Peking University. Rong Xu was selected as a Siebel Scholar [1] in 2004 for her outstanding academic performance and leadership at Stanford. Rong Xu received the 2014 NIH Director’s Innovator Award [2], the 2015 Landon Foundation-AACR INNOVATOR Award for Cancer Prevention Research [3], the 2015 AMIA New Investigator Award [4], and the 2016 ‘American Cancer Society Research Scholar. Rong was featured on 2016 Cleveland’s Crain’s latest “Who to Watch Health Care”, which highlights innovators in Northeast Ohio’s medical fields [5].