Pengyi Yang is senior lecturer at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Sydney, and an ARC DECRA Fellow and a NHMRC Investigator. He heads the Computational Systems Biology group at Children’s Medical Research Institute, and also heads the Computational Trans-Regulatory Biology group at Charles Perkins Centre. As a systems biologist cross-trained in computational and biological sciences, Pengyi combines machine learning and statistical methods to model trans-omic networks that cut across cell signalling, transcriptional, and epigenetic regulations.