Bin Fu (bin.fu@utrgv.edu) received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from Wuhan University in 1985 and 1988, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in computer science in 1998 from Yale University, where he finished his Ph.D. dissertation, Volume Bounded Molecular Computing, under the supervision of Dr. Richard Beigel. He is currently a professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. His research interests include the fields of algorithms, bioinformatics, complexity theory, and molecular computing. He received the U.S. National Science Foundation Early Career Award (2009–2014).