Kok Hao Chen is a Principal Scientist II and Group Leader of the Laboratory of Imagenomics at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS). His group is developing spatial-omics technologies to decipher gene expression and gene regulatory mechanisms in mammalian tissue development and disease. Previously, Chen was a GIS Fellow and AXA Postdoctoral Fellow at GIS. Having obtained his Bachelor of Science from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Chen completed his PhD with Xiaowei Zhuang’s group at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University. He has received multiple grants and awards including the Singapore’s National Research Foundation-Competitive Research Program (NRF-CRP), National Medical Research Council-Individual Research Grant (NMRC-IRG), AXA Fellowship, NMRC YIRG and A*STAR National Science Scholarship.