Ting Wang received his undergraduate degree from Peking University in Beijing, China in 1997. He obtained a PhD in Computational Biology from Washington University and was a Helen Hay Whitney Fellow at University of California Santa Cruz, before returning to Washington University to start his own lab in the Department of Genetics and the Center for Genome Sciences and Systems Biology. An internationally recognised geneticist for genetic and epigenetic impact of transposable element on gene regulation, Wang and his group are known for defining the widespread contribution of TEs to the evolution of species-specific gene regulatory networks as well as to the conservation of 3D genome architecture, and for revealing that epigenetic dysregulation of TEs is a major mechanism driving oncogenesis. Wang currently directs the NIH 4D Nucleome Network Data Coordination and Integration Center and the NIEHS Environmental Epigenomics Data Center.