Dr. Meiling Zhang is an Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Center for Quantitative Biology at Gansu Agricultural University. She received her BS in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from Northwest Normal University (2001), her MSc from the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Lanzhou University (2008), and her PhD from the College of Grassland, Gansu Agricultural University (2012). From July 2014 to July 2015, she was a Visiting Scholar at Ohio State University. Her courses include Advanced Mathematics, Linear Algebra, Probability Theory, Operations Research and Statistics, and Professional English. She is mainly engaged in researching ecological models and biostatistics, and was named the Outstanding Instructor of the 7th Gansu Agricultural University Mathematical Modeling Competition.