He obtained his PhD in Xi’an Jiaotong University. After graduated, he worked as Research Engineer in GE Global Research, and then as a Principal Investigator in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He joined the Department of Computer Science of Hong Kong Baptist University as a Research Assistant Professor in 2010. Dr Zhu was appointed as an Assistant Professor in School of Chinese Medicine in 2015. His current research interests include Bioinformatics, computational biology, systems biology, big data analytics and computer aided drug discovery.