Presently, Dr. Cheng is an Associate Professor at the USF College of Pharmacy. Dr. Cheng has published over 30 research papers in prestigious journals including Nature. Presently, Dr. Cheng is an editor board member of Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering, the open bioinformatics journal and Journal of Proteomics and Bioinformatics. Dr. Cheng has been serving as a peer reviewer for more than ten journals. Dr. Cheng is a computational biologist. His researches mainly focus on applications of genomic data and bioinformatics method in brain development and clinical research. He is also interested in computer-aided drug design.