Dr. Lei (Stanley) Qi is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University. He received Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley, working with Dr. Adam Arkin and Dr. Jennifer Doudna. He worked as a Systems Biology Faculty Fellow at UCSF and joined faculty at Stanford University in 2014. He is also an institute scholar at Sarafan ChEM-H at Stanford University and Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator. He is a pioneer in the CRISPR technology and has played an integral role in the development of CRISPR tools that extend genome engineering beyond DNA editing. He invented the nuclease-dead dCas system in cells and has led the development of CRISPR interference (CRISPRi), CRISPR activation (CRISPRa), live-cell chromatin imaging, and 3D genome manipulation. His research is centered on creating and utilizing tools to understand the function of epigenome and transcriptome in human cells and to enable better cell therapy.